Day 1
01 Opener 02 Barriers 03 Break 04 Model 05 Lunch 06 Practices 07 Equity 08 Break 09 Plan 10 End

Session 1: Workshop Opener

30 minutes

facilitator presentation

Purpose

The purpose of this session is to welcome participants, set norms for the day, and share an overview of the workshop. This session also serves as an opportunity for participants to ask questions they have coming into the workshop that will be addressed throughout the sessions.

Objectives

  • Participants describe how their experiences shape how they see their role as a CS teacher.

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Participants sitting in groups of 3 to 4

  • At each table:

    • Sticky notes, markers, pens, scratch paper, candy (optional)
    • Table tent indicating grade levels or grade bands (K-1, 2-3, 4-5)
  • Poster: Norms
  • Poster with attendance link, course section code, bitly for slides
  • Poster: Check-in
  • Poster: Question Parking Lot

Facilitator Supplies:

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Welcome (13 minutes)

Check-In (17 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Welcome (13 minutes)

Remarks

Welcome to the CS Fundamentals Deep Dive Workshop! Thank you for your continued work in support of equitable CS education.

The workshop goals of today are to: Develop a deeper understanding of the curriculum and how it supports inclusive learning environments. Develop a deeper understanding of CS teaching practices that support teaching CS Fundamentals equitably.

(1 minute) Facilitator Introduction

Introduce yourself to participants and share your background.

(1 minute) Logistics

Remind participants about logistics such as:

  • Sitting with others who teach the same grade or grade band
  • Location of restrooms, food items, parking lot instruction (if any)
  • Location of Question Parking Lot poster to use throughout the workshop and when questions will be addressed (i.e. throughout the workshop, at the end, etc)
  • Supplies available throughout the workshop
  • Reminder about attendance

(2 minutes) Attendance

Remind participants to log in their attendance using the attendance link provided.

(4 minutes) Participant Introductions

Invite participants to introduce themselves to the whole group and share the grade level they work with and their role at their school.

(2 minutes) Norms

Remarks

We all are here for likely different reasons. Some of you have never taught CS before, and 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.

Review the “Norms” poster with participants.

  • See the “Prior to Workshop” section of the agenda for additional guidance.
  • Be present.
  • Make and take space.
  • Seek to understand.
  • Take risks.
  • Expect and accept non-closure.

(2 minutes) Optional Ice Breaker

Time provided to share out an Ice Breaker. See the “Prior to Workshop” section of the agenda for a suggestion.

(1 minute) Agenda Overview

  • Addressing Barriers and Challenges
  • 10-minute Break
  • Equity Focus
  • Model Lesson
  • Lunch
  • CS Teaching Practices
  • 10-minute Break
  • Lesson Planning
  • Wrap

Check-In (17 minutes)

(2 minutes) Questions and Reflections

Remarks

Let’s begin with a check-in to share where we are in implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals as well as share questions you may be coming to the workshop with.

  • (2 minutes) Participants reflect on how they are feeling about implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals courses.
  • (1 minute) Participants write questions about implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals and add it to the “Question Parking Lot” poster.
  • (1 minute) Participants write their response to the prompt on a sticky note and add it to the “Check-in” poster.
    • Prompt: Write or draw an emoji, word, or phrase that describes your feelings about how implementing or teaching CS Fundamentals is going for you so far.

Remarks

Throughout the workshop, I want to invite you to consider how your experience today might continue to shape how you see yourself as a CS teacher and what that will mean for your students and how you approach implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals, equitably.

[Share your response to the following prompt with a focus on whether how you see yourself as a CS teacher affected any items listed in the “Discussion Goal” for “Table Talk Share Out.”]

(5 minutes) Table Talk

Facilitator Tip

While participants are engaged in sharing responses to the prompts with others at their tables sort sticky notes on each poster into categories.

Poster - Question Parking Lot: sort questions into categories to share with participants when their questions will be addressed.

  • Examples of categories: types of questions (when, where); most commonly asked questions.

Poster - Check-in: sort images, words, and phrases to summarize for participants how people are mostly feeling about implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals courses.

  • Examples of categories: most commonly shared images, words, or phrases; related images, words or phrases

Participants share and discuss their response to the prompt with others at their table.

Prompts:

  • Do you see yourself as a CS teacher?
  • How has your experience with implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals shaped how you see yourself as a CS teacher?

(5 minutes) Table Talk Share Out

Discussion Goal

The goal of this discussion is to support participants in reflecting how they see themselves and/or their experiences with implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals may have affected any of the following:

  • how often they teach CS and to which students
  • how much time they spend planning CS Fundamentals lessons
  • working towards equity in CS -
    • making CS accessible to all of their students
    • advocating for diversity (race, gender, ability) in CS
    • establishing inclusive CS Fundamentals lessons

Invite participants to share their responses to the Table Talk prompt with the whole group.

Prompt:

  • Do you see yourself as a CS teacher?
  • How has your experience with implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals shaped how you see yourself as a CS teacher?

(5 minutes) Facilitator Share Out

  • (3 minutes) Share with participants the categories identified for the Questions Parking Lot poster and “Check-in” poster.

    • Consider sharing the following for the questions on the Question Lot Parking poster:
      • Responses to questions that can be answered during this time.
      • When questions will be addressed throughout the workshop, if questions cannot be answered during this time.
      • Consider inviting other participants to share responses to some of the questions asked as appropriate.

  • (2 minutes) Share with participants the categories identified for the “Check-in” poster.

    • Consider sharing the following about the “Check-in” poster:
    • Both unique feelings shared as well as an overall sentiment participants are feeling about implementing and teaching CS Fundamentals courses.