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Session 11: Lesson Planning

45 minutes

lesson exploration

Purpose

The purpose of this session is for participants to plan a context-setting and a skill-building CS Fundamentals lesson they will teach in their classrooms after the workshop.

Objectives

  • Participants will locate where and how to access lesson materials (lesson plans, activity guides, etc).
  • Participants will plan a lesson incorporating CS Fundamental teaching practices that supports inclusion during the lesson.
  • Participants will revise their lesson plans based on peer feedback.

Supplies & Prep

Facilitator Supplies:

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Lesson Planning Activities (45 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Lesson Planning Activities (45 minutes)

Remarks

During this session, we have time to plan lessons we can bring back to our classrooms after the workshop. First we will collaborate on planning two lessons - a context-setting lesson and a skill-building lesson. Then we will engage in a Think Aloud of how we would implement and teach the lessons in our classrooms. The Think Aloud is an opportunity to share how you envision teaching the planned lessons to your students, get feedback from another group, revise the lessons if necessary, and ultimately determine what will work best for your students and classrooms.

(20 minutes) Breakout Rooms: Collaboration

Participants collaborate and plan lessons with another participant who teaches within the same grade band.

Facilitator Note: This will require coordination to ensure participants are placed in breakout groups by grade or grade band, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… or K-1, 2-3 and 4-5, depending on the number of participants.

  • Consider using the table provided on the slides, “Lesson Planning Collaboration Sign-Up,” to help with coordination.

  • Participants use the Lesson Planning Guide in Appendix B of the Curriculum Guide Appendix to plan two lessons: context-setting Lesson and a skill-building Lesson.

  • Pairs use the Lesson Assignment Table to choose lessons they plan to implement and teach with their students.

  • Participants navigate and use the lesson plans posted online.
    • If the lesson calls for additional materials, participants should make a note to ensure that material is available and ready before teaching the lesson.

Transition: Participants go into breakout groups with another participant who teaches in the same grade or grade bands.

Producers: Send groups of 2 participants to breakout rooms for twenty minutes. Then bring participants back to the main room.

Circulate: Circulate the breakout rooms and provide support as needed.

(20 minutes) Breakout Rooms: Think Aloud

Participants return to the main room.

Remarks

Now you and your partner will do a Think Aloud of your lessons with another pair of participants. During this time, you will have an opportunity to provide and receive feedback for your lesson plans.

Breakout Rooms Lesson Think Aloud

Participants engage in a Think Aloud and talk through their responses to the Lesson Planning Guide questions and how they envision implementing and teaching their lessons. During this time, participants also engage in giving and receiving peer feedback in order to support revising their lessons.

Transition: Participants go into breakout groups with another pair of participants.

Producers: Send groups of 4 participants (two pairs) to breakout rooms for twenty minutes. Then bring participants back to the main room.

Circulate: Circulate the breakout rooms and provide support as needed.

(10 minutes) First Think Aloud

(8 minutes) One pair of participants go through a Think Aloud of their lessons and share their responses to the questions on the Lesson Planning Guide.

(2 minutes) Opportunity for partners to ask clarifying questions and provide feedback, choosing to use the following sentence starters.

  • I like…
  • I wish…
  • I wonder...

(10 minutes) Second Think Aloud

(8 minutes) The other pair of participants go through a Think Aloud of their lessons and share their responses to the questions on the Lesson Planning Guide.

(2 minutes) Opportunity for partners to ask clarifying questions and provide feedback, choosing to use the following sentence starters.

  • I like…
  • I wish…
  • I wonder...

(5 minutes) Reflection

Discussion Goal

Support participants as they make connections between what they envision and concrete steps they can take to implement and teach CS Fundamentals lessons in their classrooms.

After twenty minutes, participants return to the main room.

  • Ask for a few participants to briefly share responses to the prompt:
    • What questions in the lesson implementation guide were easiest to plan for?
    • What questions in the lesson implementation guide were the most challenging to plan for?