Final Competency Demo, part B
Pedagogy

The goal of this activity is to allow each student to demonstrate her/his learning and and understanding of this course with respect to programming.

Your task is to respond to each of the items provided below. I recommend that you review course activities and material to determine whether/how it applies to the items.

 

The Items

  1. Can anyone learn to program? Provide your rationale. [Part of this MIGHT include what do students need to know or be able to do before starting to learn programming?]
  2. Identify and briefly discuss pedagogical practices useful for ensuring inclusive programming instruction. For each, indicate how it can used in programming instruction.
  3. Identify and discuss the principal elements of planning and implementing instruction in programming. Indicate what is important to know/understand about each.
  4. Describe what you would tell a colleague who asked, "What do I need to know to teach programming and how would you describe your idealized process for teaching programming?

Note: This is four very distinct questions and you should give each the time and effort necessary to reflect a semester's worth of learning.

 

Submission

The final CD is due Friday, May 10 by 11:59 PM.  You should submit using the appropriate link on Blackboard.

If you have questions, please contact me.

 

Assessment

Your responses will be evaluated primarily on whether they included a reasonable number of elements in a manner that illustrates understanding and appropriate application of ideas. Correct/appropriate understanding of course material will also be assessed as will general communication (spelling, grammar, sentence formation, paragraph formation, etc.). The following overall rubric will be used.

4 pts = Good to Excellent 3 pts = Okay to Good 2 pts = Marginal 1 pts = Lacking
All of the following apply:
  • Reasonable number of ideas
  • All ideas appropriate to topic
  • All ideas correctly understood
  • Few, if any, issues with/in communication
 One or two of the following apply:
  • Too few ideas were included
  • Some idea not appropriate to topic
  • Some idea not correctly understood
  • Noticeable number of issues with/in communication
 Three or four of the following apply:
  • Too few ideas were included
  • Some idea not appropriate to topic
  • Some idea not correctly understood
  • Noticeable number of issues with/in communication
 Two or more of the following apply:
  • Few ideas were included
  • Multiple ideas not appropriate to topic
  • Multiple ideas not correctly understood
  • Communication was problematic