Day 1
01 Intros 02 CSD Overview 03 Break 04 Model Lesson 1 05 Lunch 06 Model Lesson 2 07 Lesson Assignments 08 Break 09 Lesson Planning 10 Unit 1 Wrap Up 11 Fac. Debrief
Day 2
12 Intro to Unit 2 13 Model Lesson 3 14 Break 15 Lesson Planning 16 Lunch 17 TLO 1 18 Break 19 TLO 2 20 Scavenger Hunt 21 Instructional Strategies 22 Fac. Debrief
Day 3
23 Community 24 Getting Buy-In 25 Break 26 TLO 3 27 Debugging 28 Lunch 29 TLO 4 30 Break 31 TLO 5 32 Scavenger Hunt 33 Unit 2 Wrap Up 34 Fac. Debrief
Day 4
35 Equity 36 Recruiting 37 Break 38 Unit 3 Intro 39 TLO 6 40 Lunch 41 TLO 7 42 Break 43 TLO 8 44 Scenarios 45 Unit 3 Wrap Up 46 Fac. Debrief
Day 5
47 Preparing for the Year 48 Assessment 49 Break 50 Planning 51 Lunch 52 Local Flex Time 53 Closing Ceremonies 54 End Early & Friday Facilitator Debrief

Session 2: Monday Kickoff: Overview of CS Discoveries

90 minutes

facilitator presentation

Purpose

  • Kick off workshop
  • Start getting people to meet each other
  • Go over what will be covered this week
  • Set context of why we are here
  • Set context of what CS Discoveries is
  • Introduce Unit 1

Objectives

  • Understand that you are part of a region cohort all learning about CSD together and that there are other cohorts around the country they can connect to as well
  • Understand the code.org professional learning program
  • Know what we’re doing this week
  • Recognize the origin/goals of CSD
  • High level understanding of the goals of Unit 1

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Normal Breakout Room Set Up

Facilitator Supplies:

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Overview of the Program (25 minutes)

Curriculum Guide Exploration (15 minutes)

Overview of Curriculum (20 minutes)

Unit 1 Intro (20 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Overview of the Program (25 minutes)

Teaching Tip

This session is scheduled for 90 minutes but there is an outline of 80 minutes of content below. This builds in a couple minutes of flex time in case the first session of the morning ran long. You can choose to use it for a brain break if you don't need to use it to make up time.

(10 minutes) Program Overview

Using slides go over:

  • Professional Learning Model
  • What are regional partners?
    • Where are the regional partners?
    • Why do we have regional partners?
    • Goals of regional partners
    • Who are the regional partners

(8 minutes) Workshop Overview

  • 5 Day Summer Workshop is the kick off to your year of professional learning

    • 5 days at workshop
    • 4 1-day follow up workshops during the school year
    • Teacher Forum

  • What does the workshop include?

    • Overview of the week and what will be happening

(7 minutes) Introduce TLOs (with slides)

  • What is a TLO?
  • Why do we do them?
  • How will your TLOs work over the next two days?
  • What is the lesson planning template?

Curriculum Guide Exploration (15 minutes)

(10 minutes) Curriculum Guide Exploration

  • Spend a few minutes flipping through the Curriculum Guide. While you’re flipping through it,
    • Flag stuff you want to come back to and anything that is particularly interesting or useful

(5 minutes) Discuss

  • Discuss your findings with an elbow partner

Overview of Curriculum (20 minutes)

(10 minutes) History of CS Discoveries

Using slides go over:

  • History of CS in Middle Schools & The Importance of Starting Early
  • CSD is for everyone
  • Build out pathway
  • Creation focused course

(7 minutes) Overview of units

Using slides go over:

  • What is the main content covered in each?
  • What do students do in the unit?

(3 minutes) Lessons for Week

Using slides go over:

  • Which units/lessons will be explored this week through TLOs?
  • Give a visual overview of the lessons that will be covered at the workshop.

Unit 1 Intro (20 minutes)

(7 minutes) Introduction to the unit (using slides + teal book)

  • Using the unit overview on pages 5 - 6 of the Curriculum Guide as a guide, introduce the unit. Specifically emphasize:
    • Structure of the unit
    • Concepts covered in the unit (including defining key terms used in the unit)
    • Types of lessons
    • The specific lessons that are introduced at this workshop

(3 minutes) Overview of Student Practices

Using slides go over:

  • Problem Solving, Persistence, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication

(10 minutes) Previously On

  • Talk about Unit Lesson 1 - Aluminum Foil Boats briefly

Discussion Goal

Goal: Highlight the different types of problems we solve all the time at different scales and how the problem solving process can be applied to all of them.

  • Prompt: Write down one big problem and one small problem?
  • Using slides introduce problem solving process used in unit 1
  • Think-Pair-Share: How could you use the problem solving process to help you solve your big problem or your small problem?

Remarks

Having learned about the problem solving process and thought about applying it to some problems we head into Unit 1 Lesson 3 which you are about to see!

(1 minute) Next Session Reminders

End of session reminders: Teachers will have a 15 minute break after this session. Make sure you let them know what time to be back in the room to start sessions again.