Week 2 — Teaching and Learning Perspectives

Overview

This week you studied logic gates, memory, the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle, and ports and controllers. These are foundational hardware concepts — but knowing them yourself and knowing how to teach them are two different things.

The pages linked below are organized by grade band. Each one addresses the same Week 2 content from the perspective of a teacher working with students at that level: what depth is appropriate, what misconceptions to expect, what instructional approaches tend to work, and what connections to the broader CS curriculum are worth making.

Find your grade band and read that page before your small group discussion. If you teach across grade levels, or are curious about approaches above or below your own, you are welcome to read more than one.

Choose Your Grade Band