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Redmond, WA. TEALS Training 11/12/13. Do Now. Pick up the handout entitled “TEALS Monthly Session” Get out a pen or take one of ours if you don’t have one on you Grab some food/drink Introduce yourself to someone you don’t know Program starts promptly at 5pm. Agenda. Introductions
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Redmond, WA TEALS Training 11/12/13
Do Now • Pick up the handout entitled “TEALS Monthly Session” • Get out a pen or take one of ours if you don’t have one on you • Grab some food/drink • Introduce yourself to someone you don’t know • Program starts promptly at 5pm
Agenda • Introductions • Announcements • Best practices/lessons learned • Writing key points for a lesson • College & Career panels • Piazza relaunch • Hour of Code • Exit ticket
TA openings – tell your friends! • Liberty Intro – Renton, WA • Lindbergh AP – Renton, WA • Auburn Mountainview AP – Auburn, WA • Truman Intro – Federal Way, WA • Forest Ridge Intro – Bellevue, WA
TEALS in the news! • Auburn Mountainview: http://www.king5.com/news/education/High-schoolers-give-up-sleeping-in-for-computer-science-227244931.html
Objective: Teachers will be able to implement all of the best practices on the teaching checklist Best practices / lessons learned
TEALS teaching checklist Read over the checklist Discuss with someone not on your teaching team (3 minutes): Online attendees: discuss in the chat box • Which items are you using in your classroom? • Which items have been successful for you? • Which items are you still unsure about/skeptical of?
Panel – Kory Srock & Brett Wortzman Particular areas of focus • Peer grading • Face-to-face project grading (rubrics are on Piazza Q&A) • Raffle tickets • Notebooks
Objective: Teachers will be able to write aligned key points for a lesson Planning a manageable introduction to new material
Sample objective Students will be able to initialize a one-dimensional array and manipulate its elements Goal: “Lecture” portion of lesson is clear, concise, and distills down the most fundamental knowledge that students need to be successful
Formative assessment – lab activity • Create an array of integers inputted by the user • The first integer that the user inputs is the size of the array • Print out the array • Print out the array in reverse order • Multiply every other element by two • Then, multiply every third element by three • Then, multiply every fourth element by four • Print out the final array
Planning activity – groups of 3-4 (6 mins) Online attendees: discuss in chat box • Your students know nothing about arrays. • You may only give them four pieces of information (“key points”). • Write down the four pieces of information that you think will best set them up to master the formative assessment. • EXAMPLE: definition of an array • You may only give one code example. Write down the one example that you would show them.
Key points - distill it down • Arrays are data structures that hold a sequence of elements of the same data type • Declaration: datatype [] array = new datatype[size] • Indexing starts at 0 • array[i] accesses the (i-1)th element in the array
Objective: Teachers will be able to plan and run an effective college and career panel College & Career Panels
n easy steps to a great career day • Where n = 3
1. Get good people The most important factor.
+’s • Are they good story tellers? • Do they work with something your students know and love? • Can they serve as role models not already in the classroom? • Do they exude energy about computer science? • Younger is good
It takes time • You’re looking for ~3 people • Use your network and start now!
Your speakers should… • Know where to go • Know when to go • Understand your class vibe • Understand their role
Your class should… • Hyped for career day • Prepared with questions
Basic plan • Re-introduce career day • Introduce your speakers • Demonstrate the vast landscape that CS spans and the careers within • Layout the roadmap to get there • Ask the speakers to tell some stories and take questions
Intro to Computing Science Career Day! What do you really do with Computing Science, what does a Career in CS look like and how do I get there?
Why Career Day? • What is it like to work in the tech industry? • What you can do with a CS degree? • What problems you can solve with a CS degree? • What you can earn with a CS degree? • What do you need to do to get there?
Computing Science Career Panel • David Smith – Amazon • Graduated University @ (19xx) • Bachelors Degree in …. • Yulia Dubinina – Microsoft • Graduated University of Southern California (20xx) • Bachelors Degree in …. • Calvin Hopkins – Microsoft • Graduated Tufts University (Boston) (20xx) • Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering
Computing Science Career Stats • Career Cast’s #1 Job for 2012! • Why is CS #1? • Low Stress and High Pay • Avg $90,000 starting salary for 4 year bachelors degree (bureau of labor stats) • Lots of Paid Internship Opportunities - $ before Grad • Great Work Environment • Free food, flexible working hours, lots of “events” … • Good Job Outlook – 3:1 - Job Openings <-> CS Graduates • By 2015 – 800,000 new CS related jobs (US only graduates 14,000 / year) • Seattle has MANY tech companies (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Boeing, …)
David – what is it like to work at Amazon? • Shape and build the next generation of consumer electronics – e.g. Kindle Fire • We get to work with cutting edge hardware • I've never worked with so many smart people and so many donuts • LOTS and LOTS of dogs in the office!
Yulia – what is it like to work at Microsoft? • Small teams are the best • Lots of fun Windows apps to play with • We Look for apps that do “bad” things • We Learn how to detect those bad things • Communicate with a lot of other teams and learn a lot of new things from different people all around the world
Calvin – what is it like to work at Microsoft? • I get to work with some of the best and brightest in industry • Things I’ve learned in college are extremely applicable to what I work on • I work on High priority items that millions of people are dependent on each day. • I have done everything from web development, to gene network estimation, to bringing ESPN to Xbox
Objective: Teachers will be able to describe the changes made to Piazza Objective: Teachers will be able to gather value from visiting Piazza Piazza Relaunch
Piazza Relaunch • One community for all TEALS partners (volunteers + teachers) Teachers: expect an invite later this week • Primary place for program-wide announcements (enable email notifications!) • Post of the week • Weekly Update
Piazza Relaunch “Everybody Writes” • Write down two questions you have that could be answered by the TEALS community