Session 1: Workshop Opener
15 minutes
discussion-based
Purpose
This session brings participants together to kick off the workshop and reflect on how things are going in the classroom.
Objectives
- Participants can clear up misconceptions or questions from asynchronous work.
- Participants build community through discussions about their own local contexts.
- Participants can describe how their identity, experiences, and beliefs shape how they see their role as a CS teacher
Supplies & Prep
Workshop Modality:
- Whole group
- Breakout rooms
Facilitator Supplies:
Teacher Materials:
- Check that teachers have materials for later sessions including: about 4 baggies, 2 different colored sticky notes, a whiteboard marker, a pen, and white paper
Agenda
Workshop Opening Logistics (3 minutes)
Connect to Asynchronous Work (12 minutes)
Facilitation Guide
Workshop Opening Logistics (3 minutes)
Facilitator Tip
The 💷 symbol indicates that a slide is included in the slide deck to cover the content in that section. This is to help you know where you are in the agenda to some extent. It is important to note that the slides do not include all of the text from the agenda. Often we ask you as a facilitator to use the slides to support your presentations, but at times you should provide more context than what is on the slide. You can find that context in this agenda.
(0 min) As Participants Enter the Room
💷 As participants join the call, warmly welcome them to the workshop. It is recommended that you have some sort of get-to-know you discussion starter that can trigger some conversation for you to fill the time as people join. The one in the slide deck is currently: What is one of your favorite comfort foods that you enjoy? You may decide to change this if something else feels top of mind.
During this time you can also take care of some logistics such as:
- Encourage participants to take attendance
- Ensure that participants have the slide deck open for the workshop
- Making sure everyone has the materials needed for the live demo available, including:
- ~4 ziploc baggies (alternative: envelopes or cups)
- Two different colored stickies (alternative: scraps of paper)
- Whiteboard marker (alternative: permanent marker)
- Pens
- White (or light solid color) background (white paper or folder)
(1 min) Attendance
Have everyone complete the attendance for the day on the online workshop dashboard found in your workshop.
Follow the instructions found in your Facilitator Handbook - 2021 to take attendance for your workshop.
(1 minute) Agenda Overview
💷 Walk through the agenda of the day. Participants should be aware that they will be gaining more experience with Unit 4 and introducing some pedagogical tools for teaching students to program.
Facilitator Tip
More information about these norms can be found in our Professional Learning K-12 Norms One-Pager. This document isn’t necessary to distribute to participants, but can help to provide context for you as you review group norms.
(1 min) Norms
💷 Remind the group of the K-12 Professional Learning norms that were established during the Summer Workshop.
- Be present.
- Make space and take space.
- Seek to understand.
- Take risks.
- Expect and accept non-closure.
Connect to Asynchronous Work (12 minutes)
(3 minutes) Asynchronous Work Reminder
💷 Remind participants of the work they did in the asynchronous work in this module. This included:
- Reading the Unit 3 and Unit 4 overviews and answering some questions about the material.
- Reviewing the EIPM one-pager and videos
- Optionally, looking at the virtual guidance provided by Code.org
Facilitator Tip
For the “Re-connect” section, you might want to take this time to instead address questions that were raised in the asynchronous work or common themes you saw that participants were concerned about. Encourage participants to answer one anothers’ questions and facilitate a discussion amongst participants rather than providing your own answer to questions and concerns.
For example, you might say “Many participants wrote that they were concerned about how they would handle students who finished the Make tasks early. What ideas do you all have for this situation?” The goal of the reconnect time is to allow participants to connect to one another and to raise questions participants might have about the curriculum or implementation. If those questions arise in the asynchronous work, here is a great place to address them. If those questions don’t arise, feel free to use the questions in this agenda instead.
(9 mins) Re-connect in Breakout Rooms
Producer support: Prepare to put participants in groups of 2 in breakout rooms for 5 minutes.
💷 Remind participants of the equity framework, and that the work is ongoing throughout the year to bring access, diversity, and inclusion to their classrooms and schools. Share that during Modules 1 and 2, they will be asked to reflect and update their conceptualization of their identity to continue Understanding Self.
Remarks
In a minute, you will be put into pairs to talk about your experiences. You will have 5 minutes in these groups before coming back to share out. In these groups, you will discuss:
- 💷 How has your understanding of yourself as a CS teacher evolved now that school has started?
- If you had a time machine, what advice would you like to give to yourself right before school started?
If you have questions that you’d like answered during this time, feel free to add it to our question parking lot slide. We will do a short share-out after we get back to be prepared to share common themes from your discussion also.
Facilitator Tip
As participants are in pairs, watch the question parking lot for questions that have short answers. Feel free to put brief answers directly in the document during this time. Additionally, there might be questions from the question parking lot that you want to use to structure your share out.
Producer support: Put participants in groups of 2 in breakout rooms for 5 minutes.
(3 mins) Share out
When participants return, ask participants to share any themes or concerns they want to bring to the larger group here. If you run short on time, encourage participants to share their questions in the question parking lot.