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TEALS Training 11/12/13

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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TEALS Training 11/12/13

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  1. Redmond, WA TEALS Training 11/12/13

  2. 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

  3. Agenda • Introductions • Announcements • Best practices/lessons learned • Writing key points for a lesson • College & Career panels • Piazza relaunch • Hour of Code • Exit ticket

  4. Introductions

  5. 70 schools in 12 states

  6. 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

  7. TEALS in the news! • Auburn Mountainview: http://www.king5.com/news/education/High-schoolers-give-up-sleeping-in-for-computer-science-227244931.html

  8. Objective: Teachers will be able to implement all of the best practices on the teaching checklist Best practices / lessons learned

  9. 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?

  10. 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

  11. Objective: Teachers will be able to write aligned key points for a lesson Planning a manageable introduction to new material

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. Array test

  17. Questions?

  18. Objective: Teachers will be able to plan and run an effective college and career panel College & Career Panels

  19. n easy steps to a great career day • Where n = 3

  20. 1. Get good people The most important factor.

  21. +’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

  22. It takes time • You’re looking for ~3 people • Use your network and start now!

  23. 2. Get setup

  24. Your speakers should… • Know where to go • Know when to go • Understand your class vibe • Understand their role

  25. Your class should… • Hyped for career day • Prepared with questions

  26. 3. Plan out the career day

  27. 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

  28. If you remember nothing else

  29. 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?

  30. 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?

  31. 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

  32. Things David has worked on in the past….

  33. Things Yulia has worked on in the past….

  34. Things Calvin has worked on in the past….

  35. 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, …)

  36. How To Get Ready

  37. 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!

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. Questions and Panel Discussion

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. Piazza demo

  44. Questions?

  45. First Post of the Week

  46. Piazza Relaunch “Everybody Writes” • Write down two questions you have that could be answered by the TEALS community

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