Session 1: Workshop Opener
20 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 synchronous work.
- Participants build community through discussions about their own local contexts.
Supplies & Prep
Workshop Modality:
- Whole group
- Breakout rooms
Facilitator Supplies:
Teacher Materials:
- None
Agenda
Workshop Opening Logistics (3 minutes)
Connect to Asynchronous Work (17 minutes)
Facilitation Guide
Workshop Opening Logistics (3 minutes)
(0 min) As participants enter the room
💷 As participants join the call, warmly welcome them to the call. It is recommended that you have some sort of get-to-know you discussion starter that can trigger some discussion for you to fill the time as people join. The one in the slide deck is currently, What invention do you think will be popular in 20 years? 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
- Ensuring that participants have the slide deck open for the workshop
(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 to take attendance for your workshop.
(1 min) Agenda Overview
💷 Walk through the agenda of the day. Participants should be aware that they will be learning more about how skills and knowledge from EIPM sequences connect to one another and will be discussing the role of collaboration in programming units.
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 previously.
- Be present.
- Make space and take space.
- Seek to understand.
- Take risks.
- Expect and accept non-closure.
Connect to Asynchronous Work (17 minutes)
Facilitator Tip
For the “reconnect” 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. If there aren’t common questions from the asynchronous work, feel free to use the questions in this agenda instead.
(6 mins) 💷 Reconnect in Breakout Rooms
Producer support: Prepare to put participants in groups of 2 for 5 minutes.
Remarks
💷 In a breakout room, 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 are you progressing with the pacing that you planned for during the summer workshop?
- How would you describe your classroom culture at the moment? What do you like? What do you want to change?
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, so please be prepared to share common themes from your discussion.
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 for 5 minutes.
💷 (11 minutes) 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.