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

Session 1: Introduction

50 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
  • Participants understand the group norms for a virtual workshop
  • Participants understand the different roles of people in the room
  • Participants meet some new people

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Full Cohort

Facilitator Supplies:

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Prior to the Workshop (0 minutes)

Welcome (50 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Prior to the Workshop (0 minutes)

Review Code.org’s Professional Learning Norms

Develop your introduction slides. Try to model the depth of reflection you would like the participants to achieve:

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?

Check the following slides, which will be used as part of participant introductions:

  • Map of the USA or state (if everyone is from one state) that everyone can use to say where they are from
  • Graph of 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
  • Facilitator and producer introduction slides
  • Individual Introduction Slides

Producer Tip

As people join, welcome them. If possible, test their audio/video quickly just by having them say “hi.”

Producer Tip

Enter links to attendance and the day’s slides in the chat frequently as people join so they can complete the activity.

For TLO's:

  • 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.
  • Consider what adaptations teachers may need to make for the virtual environment, such as showing videos, break out rooms, and the need for teachers to transition screen sharing when needed. Be prepared to assist teachers with these considerations.
  • 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.

Welcome (50 minutes)

(5 minutes) As Participants Join the Workshop

Facilitator Tip

Workshop participants really appreciate it when facilitators know their names. Participants can change the display of their name in video conferencing software.

As participants join the workshop, have them do the following:

  • Have teachers add their information to the Introduction Slides (see Prior to the Workshop for list) to highlight the many different perspectives and strengths we each bring to the room.
  • Take attendance. There will be a specific link for the module at your workshop.
  • Check that everyone is marked as present in the online workshop dashboard.
  • Encourage teachers to turn on webcams and check their audio.

(4 minutes) Welcome and Kick Off

  • 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.
  • Mention that all sessions will be broken into "chunks" and there will be scheduled breaks to give everyone a chance to use the bathroom, stretch, get a drink or snack, etc.

(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 introduction slides.

Remarks

The goal of creating these slides is to highlight that everyone brings something to the workshop, and there’s a spectrum of experiences and perspectives here. We can all learn from one another because we all bring different skills and backgrounds to the room.

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?)

(3 minutes) Co-Lead Introductions & Producer

Share details about your background and why you became a facilitator. Your introduction should be a model for teachers to talk about their own personal CS Journey

Prompt: What was your journey to CS?

  • How did you first hear about CS?
  • Have you taught the course?
  • Have you taught other CS courses?
  • What is your background with CS?
  • What else would you like to share about your journey to becoming a CS teacher?

(20 minutes) Personal CS Journey

Go through the slide deck and give teachers each one minute to share their slide. There is not enough time here for every person to share their full story with the group. You might choose to use this time to have participants share their name and one word to describe their CS Journey:

Facilitator Tip

Be sure to watch the time here. Try to keep your participants at a minute or less.

  • 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?

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) Introduction Video

Watch the Address to Professional Development Workshops video as a whole group

(5 minutes) Norms

Facilitator Tip

As you introduce the norms, provide some context so participants know what is meant by each of these. This is a good place to also set up norms around the use of the webcam. You and your co-facilitator may want to consider when you want to ask participants to have webcams on (e.g. in breakout rooms). We see this as something that can certainly fall under the “Be present norm” listed here. If this, or other expectations are important to you in your workshop, consider brainstorming those expectations with your co-facilitator and connecting those expectations to these norms listed.

As a reminder, our "Code.org's Professional Learning Norms" document can help you describe these norms to your participants.

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:

Our Norms

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

Facilitator Tip

This will be different depending on the platform you use. Prepare what you want your teachers to know ahead of time, but also be flexible as new ideas may pop up through the workshop.

(5 minutes) Synchronous Activities

Give participants a brief overview and demonstration of some of the features in your video conferencing software that they will be expected to use during synchronous activities. Examples common to most platforms include:

  • Breakout rooms (table groups)
  • Chat/instant messaging
  • Raise hand (or another way to get the attention of facilitators without interrupting)