Day 1
01 Intro 02 CSD Overview 03 Break 04 ML 1: U1L3 05 Tools and Strategies 06 Lunch 07 ML 2: U1L7 08 Tools and Strategies 09 Lesson Assignments 10 Break 11 Lesson Planning 12 Wrap Up 13 Fac. Debrief
Day 2
14 Intro 15 ML 3: U2L2 16 Tools and Strategies 17 Break 18 Lesson Planning 19 Lunch 20 ML 4: U2L3 21 Break 22 Tools and Strategies 23 TLO 1: U2L5 24 Wrap Up 25 Fac. Debrief
Day 3
26 Intro 27 Understanding Context 28 TLO 2: U2L6 29 Break 30 TLO 3: U2L9 31 Lunch 32 TLO 4: U2L11 33 Classroom Culture 34 Break 35 TLO 5: U2L16 36 Wrap Up 37 Fac. Debrief
Day 4
38 Intro 39 Bias and Responsibility 40 Unit 3 Intro 41 Break 42 TLO 6: U3L2 43 TLO 7: U3L3 44 Lunch 45 Differentiation 46 TLO 8: U3L4 47 Break 48 Content Wrap Up 49 Barriers, Opportunities, and Commitments 50 Wrap Up 51 Fac. Debrief
Day 5
52 Intro 53 Prep for the Year 54 Assessment 55 Break 56 Revisit Topics 57 Community 58 Lunch 59 Planning 60 Closing Ceremonies 61 End Early & Friday Facilitator Debrief

Session 1: Introduction

30 minutes

discussion-based

Purpose

This session serves as both a welcome and an opportunity to begin building community within the cohort. Participants will be asked to reflect on their personal CS journey. This activity will serve as a foundation for reflections that will occur throughout the day centered around understanding self.

Objectives

  • Participants feel a sense of belonging in the program cohort

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Participants are seated in pods
  • Introductions Posters (described below)
  • Poster for Question Parking Lot
  • Post-it notes on each table

Facilitator Supplies:

  • Day 1 Slides
  • Poster Paper (for creating a norms poster)
  • Markers

Teacher Materials:

  • Journal

Agenda

Prior to the Workshop (0 minutes)

Welcome (30 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Prior to the Workshop (0 minutes)

Create introduction posters:

  • Graph number of years of teaching experience
  • Graph of number of years of computer science experience (any kind)
  • Grades from 6th to 12th and create a bar chart of the breakdown of teachers in your room

Review Code.org’s Professional Learning Norms and create a poster with the following norms:

  • Be present.
  • Make and take space.
  • Seek to understand.
  • Take risks.
  • Expect and accept non-closure.

Set-up the room with the following materials on the table (one-per-participant):

  • A journal
  • The Activity Packet
  • The Curriculum Guide

Set up a class section for your cohort. Add the join link to the intro slide of your cohort’s Monday slide deck.

Welcome (30 minutes)

As Teachers Come In

Facilitator Tip

Teachers really appreciate it when facilitators know their names. Start early and keep working at it. The time when teachers are coming in is a good time to try to learn a couple names.

As teachers are coming in (put up slide with directions):

  • Have teachers add post-its to the Introduction Posters (see prep for list) around the room to highlight the many different perspectives and strengths we each bring to the room
  • Take attendance and have teachers join your section

(5 minutes) Welcome and Kick Off

  • Once everyone has put post-its up and is seated...
  • Check to make sure everyone has taken attendance and logged into the class on Code Studio. Allow time for those who have not yet completed these tasks to do so.
  • Introduce participants to the space and logistics. (bathroom location, snack location, places to plug in computers, etc.)

(2 minutes) Leads Introductions

You (the leads) should introduce yourselves

  • Share details about your background and what brought you to being a facilitator
    • Have you taught the course?
    • Have you taught other CS courses?
    • What is your background with CS?

(3 minutes) What do you bring to the room?

  • Introduce the different roles of people in the room (where teachers are from, regional partner, etc).
  • Explain the posters:

Remarks

The goal of creating these posters is to highlight that everyone brings something to the room, and there’s a spectrum of experiences and perspectives here. We can all learn from each other because we all bring different skills and backgrounds to the room. In addition, we all have unique journeys that brought us to this place together today. Before we jump in, let’s take a few minutes to reflect on the journey that brought us to computer science.

Facilitator Tip

This is a seed planting activity intended to kick off the equity focus of understanding self. Sharing your experience here will model the practice of reflecting and sharing. Try to model the depth of reflection you would like the participants to achieve.

Share how this applies to you. (For example: Did you start out as a CS teacher? How did you first hear about CS? Did you teach yourself? What challenges did you face?)

(15 minutes) Personal CS Journey

Prompt: What was your journey to CS?

  • How did you first hear about CS?
  • Are you learning CS content for the first time at this workshop? Did you study CS in school? Did you teach yourself?
  • Do you have fears or concerns about being a CS teacher?
  • What else would you like to share about your journey to becoming a CS teacher?

(3 minutes) Think: individual reflection

(6 minutes) Pair: discuss with a partner

Facilitator Tip

There is not time here for every person to share their full story with the group. You might choose to use this time to have participants go around the room and share their name and one word to describe their CS journey.

(5 minutes) Share: share and discuss with the whole group

Remarks

We all have unique journeys that have brought us to this place together. Throughout the week, we will have opportunities to reflect on how these experiences have an impact on how we engage with each other, with the curriculum materials, and with the students in our CS classes.

(5 minutes) Norms

Facilitator Tip

Provide some context for each of these norms so participants know what is meant by each of these norms. You can find Code.org’s context for these norms in our one-pager. We don’t recommend you read the full document to participants but rather pull out the key messages you want to have heard in the workshop.

Remarks

We all are here for perhaps slightly different reasons. Some of you have never taught CS before, maybe others of you are looking to learn about more tools to bring to your classroom to teach CS. However, we are all here as a community of people who are looking to learn. To support that learning, we want to propose the following norms for our community to help us learn:

  • Be present.
  • Make space and take space.
  • Seek to understand.
  • Take risks.
  • Expect and accept non-closure.