Competency Demo - Week 7 Instructional Practices

Your Competency Demos during weeks 6-9 will follow a very similar pattern. Each week you will read several articles related to a new principle from your textbook. I will ask you to synthesize and reflect on those readings and connect them back to some of the supportive practices you read about in week 4.

 

This week you read about:

 

I recognize that there are only two strategies this week and that they are very similar in nature. But be willing to think broadly about these ideas both in a CS classroom and beyond. Where are there similar strategies in a math, science, English, art, etc. classroom?

 

  1. Which of these teaching strategies do you feel you experienced as a student (anywhere from kindergarten through your current courses in our program and including similar strategies in non-CS classrooms)? Identify/list all. Explain how and your overall experiences with the strategy(ies) in sufficient detail.
    • If you don't feel you ever experienced any of these under these names, consider similar techniques/situations.

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  2. Which of these strategies would you most want to use in a computer science classroom to best meet the needs of a "typical" learner.  Explain and defend.  [I would like you talk about the 2 or 3 ideas that most stand out to you.  For each, explain and defend.]

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  3. In week 4 you read about the idea of "imposter syndrome."
    • Which of the instructional techniques from this week do you think might help fight this issue.
      • Be clear on WHY you think these approaches would help reduce imposter syndrome.

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  4. In week 4 you read about the EngageCSEdu Engagement Practices. 
    • Which of the instructional techniques from this week do you think connect well with these practices.
      • Be clear on WHY you think these approaches connect to these practices.

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  5. In week 4 you read about Culturally Responsive Computing (CRC).
    • Which of the instructional techniques from this week do you think connect well with this material.
      • Be clear on WHY you think these approaches connect to this material.

 

Submission

This counts as a competency demo in the course. In other words, each question will be assigned a score of 0-4 and an overall grade for the activity will be assigned.

While these questions are somewhat a matter of opinion - that is, they have multiple "right answers" - they can still be graded for competence based on how well you explain and defend your answer(s). Recognize that the degree to which you do so will have an impact on your grade.

Please submit this via Blackboard by the end of the week.