Supportive Practices
Background
Why focus on supportive practices when we think about teaching and learning programming? Well, ..., because a huge part of the population does not show up when we look at who is doing computer science. Computer science is arguably one of the most gender and race imbalanced discipline in STEM. This has been true for a long time and, while some progress is being made, the problem still exist and is big! We could literally spend an entire course examining the historical shift and pressures behind this (think "Hidden Figures"). While we don't have that kind of time, we DO want to teach computer science and programming to everyone and we want them all to be successful. Using supportive practices and teaching inclusively helps everyone learn better. We all should have the goal of helping all our students learn.
Reading
- Supportive Practices Intro (produced by the CSEdUNI team, mostly Dr. Sarah Diesburg)
Writing
This response is specificially targeting the "Supportive Practices" document that you read for this week
- What do you think is the MOST important idea
- Something you AGREE with
- Something you do NOT agree with
- Something you found INTERESTING
- Something you found CONFUSING
Submission
I will be grading this on purely a 1/0 basis. You get credit for submitting something "on time" and that shows that you put time and effort/thought into crafting a meaningful response.
I do not see there being any right or wrong answers in this activity. Similarly, length of your answer does not necessarily correlate with the quality of your answers. Instead, I will be looking to see if you have considered a broad set of ideas/concepts for this reflection and will be looking at the clarity with which you have crafted your response(s). This includes things like spelling, grammar, formatting, etc.
Please submit this via Blackboard by the end of the week.