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 11: Lesson Planning

60 minutes

lesson planning session

Purpose

Understanding the lesson and the resources available in the lesson.

  • Try activities and tools
  • Watch videos
  • Read lesson plan
  • Look through linked resources

Objectives

  • Teachers have had a chance to read through the materials and start making a plan for delivering the lesson with their groups
  • Teachers have done any core activities from the lesson

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Everyone is sitting at a table with their lesson planning group

Facilitator Supplies and Prep:

Before Workshop:

  • Both facilitators should be well versed in all lessons. Consider key things about each lesson that you think a teacher should pay attention to when planning. Have guiding questions to help them think about those key things.
  • Build a check in schedule that makes each facilitator responsible for checking in with the same 4 groups. It’s good to see the same people multiple times, which is easier if you’re splitting the room.
  • Day 1 Slides

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Lesson Planning Process (15 minutes)

Lesson Exploration Time (45 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Lesson Planning Process (15 minutes)

(10 minutes) Overview of the Lesson Planning Process & Resources

Start by having teachers review the TLO overview in their Activity Packet (page 5).

Using slides remind participants:

  • They have an hour today and an hour tomorrow to plan for teaching their lesson
  • Today we will be working on Step 1: Get Familiar with the Lesson
    • Spend today mostly focused on understanding the lesson and all its resources - tomorrow will focus on breaking down how to teach it
  • Review resources they can use in this process
    • How to access the lesson plans and code studio materials online
    • Point out the pages in the Curriculum Guide they can use to learn about the story of a unit
    • Lesson Slides
      • Point out where slides can be found
      • Explain the role and purpose of slides in implementing a lesson
    • Physical printed materials
      • Lesson Plans are printed separately - 2 copies per group
      • Remind teachers that all activity guides teachers will need during the lesson will be in their Activity Packets
    • Point out the Lesson Tips and why they are there (Activity Packet pages 7 - 10)
      • We give guidance at workshops about what to focus on in the lesson because we are skipping between lessons and certain dependencies between lessons mean we won’t do a certain activity or we want to focus on seeing one part of a lesson over the other because of time.

(5 minutes) Get Familiar with Lesson

Prompt Read through:

  • The first page of the lesson plan
  • The lesson planning guide

Before digging deeper into the lesson, what clarification do you need on lesson planning?

Lesson Exploration Time (45 minutes)

(45 minutes) Begin Planning: Understand the Lesson Resources

Goal: Teachers get familiar with all of the materials in the lesson.

Prompt: Read through the lesson and DO THE ACTIVITIES YOURSELF.

  • Biggest point to make to participants is that they shouldn’t make assumptions about how activities will play out.
  • It’s important that they test out the activities themselves.

Facilitator Tip

As they work facilitators should:

  • Circulate the room checking in with groups.
  • Allow groups to make their own choices about how to present the lesson but ask guiding questions where necessary to get them to consider how to best present the lesson.
  • Facilitators may clarify what comes in previous lessons or explain keep CS concepts if the group is very confused.
  • Both facilitators should be well versed in all lessons, but it could be beneficial to build a check in schedule that makes each facilitator responsible for checking in with the same 4 groups. It’s very likely that people will stop you to ask questions, but for scheduled rounds of checking in on planning, it’s good to see the same people multiple times, which is easier if you’re splitting the room.

Teachers should be working on filling in Step 1 on page 11 of the Activity Packet.

NOTE: Groups will have 60 more minutes tomorrow to finish planning their lessons. The biggest goal right now should be to get through reading the lesson and doing activities. There is plenty of time tomorrow to figure out exactly how you want to deliver the lesson.