Effective collaboration around computing requires educators to incorporate diverse perspectives and unique skills when developing student learning opportunities, and recognize that collaboration skills must be explicitly taught in order to lead to better outcomes than individuals working independently. Educators work together to select tools and design activities and environments that facilitate these collaborations and outcomes.
3a: Model and learn with students how to formulate computational solutions to problems and how to give and receive actionable feedback.
3b: Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in varying team roles, equitable workload distribution, and project management.
3c: Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross disciplines to strengthen student understanding of CT and CS concepts and transfer application of knowledge in new contexts.
DroneBlock Activity
3a: Model and learn with students how to formulate computational solutions to problems and how to give and receive actionable feedback. This activity aligns with this standard because my partner and I modeled the code before the students did it. Also my partner and I provided the students with constructive feedback when the students did the code and/or if they had problems.
Metro-E Elementary Field Experience (Lego)
3b: Apply effective teaching strategies to support student collaboration around computing, including pair programming, working in varying team roles, equitable workload distribution, and project management. This activity aligns with this standard because throughout the coding activity my partner and I allowed for different opportunities for the students to be the leader of the group. The student would create a code and explain it to the group and make sure everything went according the plan.
STAR Hero Journey - Metro E Activity
3c: Plan collaboratively with other educators to create learning activities that cross disciplines to strengthen student understanding of CT and CS concepts and transfer application of knowledge in new contexts. This activity aligns with this standard because I got to work collaboratively with other educators from another class. Through various team meetings with other educators, we created a Hero Journey Story that aligned with different TEKS from each team member. There is an activity that goes with the story and it promotes the understanding of CT and CS concepts through having the students identify the plant parts on the Nearpod and having the students transfer their drawings and puzzle to the Flip.