Day 1
01 Welcome 02 Break 03 Model Lesson #1: U1L3 04 Break 05 Intro to CSP 06 Lesson Process 07 Transition to Asynchronous 08 Lunch 09 Binary Number Systems 10 Plugged and Unplugged 11 Break 12 The Teacher's Role 13 Intro to PLACE 14 Transition to Asynchronous
Day 2
15 Intro 16 TLO #1: U1L7 17 Break 18 Previously on... 19 TLO #2: U1L9 20 Break 21 CED 22 Transition to Asynchronous 23 Lunch 24 Asynchronous Debrief 25 Break 26 TLO #3: U1L10 27 Break 28 Role in Assessment 29 Transition to Asynchronous
Day 3
30 Intro 31 Ourselves & Our Position 32 Break 33 TLO #4: U2L2 34 Break 35 TLO #5: U2L3 36 Transition to Asynchronous 37 Lunch 38 Asynchronous Debrief 39 Addressing Unconscious Bias 40 Break 41 TLO #6: U2L4 42 Transition to Asynchronous
Day 4
43 Intro 44 TLO #7: U3L2 45 Break 46 Previously, on… U3L3 - 4 47 Break 48 TLO #8: U3L6 49 Transition to Asynchronous 50 Lunch 51 Async Debrief 52 Recruiting & Retaining Students 53 Break 54 Lesson Exploration: U3L8 55 Transition to Asynchronous
Day 5
56 Intro 57 Recruiting Students Recap 58 Mapping Equity 59 Break 60 Values and Assessment 61 Break 62 Assessment Approach 63 Transition to Asynchronous 64 Lunch 65 Async Debrief 66 Planning Your Year 67 Closing Ceremonies

Session 19: TLO #2: U1L9 - Lossless Compression

60 minutes

lesson exploration

Purpose

TLOs are intended to help participants experience part of the curriculum as a learner and also practice teaching lessons from the curriculum. We use the debrief to discuss important aspects of teaching CS Principles in classrooms.

Objectives

  • Participants understand the role they play in managing student behavior and actions when using widgets to teach content.

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Full Cohort
  • Table Groups (3-4)

Facilitator Supplies and Prep:

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Intro and Lesson (41 minutes)

Debrief (19 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Intro and Lesson (41 minutes)

Producer Tip

You should have information from the teaching group on how they would like to handle breakout rooms. Verify that the information is correct during the break prior to the session

(0 minutes) Teaching Group Set Up

Teaching group sets up during break.

Producer: Temporarily give the teaching group Co-Host privileges so that they can move in between breakout rooms.

Producer: If using breakout rooms, set up the participant rooms, a “Teacher” room, and a “Facilitator” room

(1 minute) Reinforce Roles

Remind participants of what it means to be a learner or a teacher. Have them put their hats on before handing it over to the teaching group.

Facilitator Tip

To make teachers feel more comfortable, it may be a good idea to turn off your camera throughout the lesson and/or change your name to “Facilitator - Ignore Me”. This can be helpful while moving through breakout rooms so “students” do not look to you for answers.

Facilitator Tip

If breakout rooms are used, it is important to get a sense of what is happening in them. As you move through the rooms, make sure that you are not providing input. If you are asked for it, remind teachers using chat that you are not a teacher right now and they can use the call for help button if needed.

Producer Tip

Just as with facilitators in breakout rooms, you may need to act as a “messenger” for the teachers. If a group presses the “call for help” button, you will need to find the teachers and inform them that a group is asking for help.

(40 minutes) Lesson

Facilitator Instructions

Be attentive to what is happening during the lesson as you select your debrief goals, reflection prompts, and discussion prompts. During the lesson, it is recommended that you communicate with your co-facilitator to share what you are seeing in the lesson and develop a shared understanding of the goal of the debrief for the lesson. You can communicate through Slack or through passing notes to one another. You are looking for the teaching group to demonstrate the “Essential practice” and “Teaching group decisions” identified in the debrief below.

Lesson Plan Link

Lesson Slides Link

Lesson Overview

Students use the Text Compression Widget to experiment with compressing songs and poems and try to find their ‘personal best’ compression. A video introduces important vocabulary for the lesson and demonstrates the full features of the widget. Students pick a text they think will be ‘easy’ to compress and one they think will be ‘difficult’, paying attention to why some texts might be more compressible than others. As a wrap-up, students discuss what factors make some texts more compressible than others.

Debrief (19 minutes)

Producer Tip

You will need a breakout room for the teaching group to debrief while the main group does their reflections.

Then you will need breakout groups of 4-5 people for the group debrief.

Debrief process reminder:

  • (~5 minutes) Start with displaying the reflection prompt slide. Have the participants who acted as learners reflect on the reflection prompt(s) individually.
    • While the room is reflecting, have the teaching group in a breakout room and discuss and be prepared to share their “Choices, Advice, and Takeaways”.
  • When the teaching group is ready, have them share their Choices, Advice, and Takeaways with the room to start the debrief.
  • After they have shared, applaud the teaching group and lead the group discussion using the discussion prompts. Once again, post discussion prompts on a slide to help keep track of the conversation.

Suggested Debrief Plan
To Watch for During the Lesson Essential
Practices		 Learners, with guidance from the teacher, are highly engaged while using the tool.
Potential Teaching Group Decisions
  • The teacher will introduce the tool by letting learners explore the tool first and then talk about how it works.
  • Teachers encourage learners to try multiple texts and multiple strategies.
  • Teachers encourage learners to compare strategies and results with one another throughout the lesson.
  • The teaching group leads a conversation at the end of the lesson that synthesizes the learning that took place.
If the essential practices, listed above, are present in the lesson we recommend the following for your debrief:
Debrief Direction Topic Using widgets
Goal Teachers understand the role they play in managing student behavior and actions when using widgets to teach content.
To reach this goal, consider using the following reflection and discussion prompts:
Debrief Suggestions Reflection
Prompt		 As a learner, which of your behaviors or actions helped you be successful with this tool and content?
Discussion
Prompts		 After the teaching group has shared out their Choices, Advice and Takeaways, engage in a “Stoplight” debrief: Create slides that say “Green light”, “Yellow light”, and “Red light” on the top. The goal is to have no more than about 5 people at a slide, so this might mean that you need to make two sets of slides depending on the size of your group.

(8 minutes)Prepare random breakout groups of 4-5 people. Then reveal the following prompts. Have participants generate as many ideas as possible on their slide.

  • Green light: On this slide, list what behaviors, actions, and activities we as teachers want to encourage in students during this lesson.
  • Yellow light: On this slide, list warning signs we as teachers may see in our students that show they might be off-track.
  • Red light: On this slide, list what behaviors and actions your students might demonstrate during this lesson that we as teachers want to stop because they are not conducive to the learning content or environment.

(6 minutes) THave each group share 1-2 behaviors on their slide and how they decided to respond to it.
(1 minute) Summarize the discussion and reinforce the idea that teachers play an active role in lessons, even more so when tools are involved. Anticipating these behaviors and how teachers react can help teachers manage students in the classroom.

FACILITATOR NOTE:
As you discuss this prompt, look for places to draw out the decisions for this lesson, listed above.

FACILITATOR NOTE: During your debrief, avoid the topic of teaching in the virtual world unless you know the majority of teachers will be virtual next year. Many teachers will be in person, and conversations about choices made for the virtual setting will not be helpful as teachers return to the classroom.