Day 1
01 Workshop Opener 02 Recruiting Students 03 Stretch 04 Unit 5 Conclusions and Connections 05 Unit 6 Overview 06 Wrap Up

Session 1: Workshop Opener

15 minutes

discussion-based

Purpose

Bring participants together to kick off the workshop and reflect on how things are going in the classroom. This is a place to check in on specific lessons that people have already taught, as well as pacing and teaching practices that were recommended or discussed in the previous workshop.

It is common to surface concerns during this session that can be revisited and addressed throughout the workshop.

Objectives

  • Participants can correct their own misconceptions and existing questions have been asked and answered.
  • Participants have strategies for giving and using feedback in their classrooms.

Supplies & Prep

Workshop Modality:

  • Whole group
  • Breakout rooms

Facilitator Supplies:

Participant Materials:

  • None

Agenda

Workshop Opening Logistics (3 minutes)

Connect to Asynchronous Work (12 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Workshop Opening Logistics (3 minutes)

(0 minutes) As Participants Join the Call

💷 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: In your opinion, is technology making the world a better or worse place? 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

(1 minute) Attendance

Have everyone complete the attendance for the day on the Workshop Dashboard - Tool 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 workshop. Participants should be aware that they will be gaining more experience with Units 5 and 6.

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 groups norms.

(1 minute) Review Norms

💷 Remind the group of the K-12 Professional Learning norms that were established during the Kickoff Call.

  • Be present.
  • Make space and take space.
  • Seek to understand.
  • Take risks.
  • Expect and accept non-closure.

Connect to Asynchronous Work (12 minutes)

Discussion Goal

One of the key impressions you want participants to leave with during this time is that it is important for students to be able to act on the feedback teachers provide, for example by being specific and concrete. This ensures continuous learning.

(5 minutes) Reconnect

Producer support: Prepare to put participants in groups of 2 in breakout rooms for 4 minutes.

Remarks

💷 In your asynchronous work, you:

  • Looked at lessons from Unit 5 that went deeper into lists.
  • Looked at the Explore lessons for loops and traversals.
  • Saw datasets in App Lab.
  • Reflected on ways you give and use feedback in your CS Principles class.

💷 Let’s brainstorm some other ways you give and use feedback in your classrooms. You will have four minutes in these groups before coming back to share out. In these groups, you will discuss:

  • What are your main avenues of feedback in your classroom?
  • How do you know students use that feedback to improve their understanding of the content?

Producer support: Put participants in groups of 2 in breakout rooms for 4 minutess.

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.

(7 minutes) 💷 Share Out

Use this time to share out in the larger group. At the end of the share out participants should have strategies for giving and using feedback in their classrooms.