Computer Science Department Planning Meeting
Topic: Discussing the possibilities of Distribution Planning; Pooling Resources for G1
NoticThe department subscribed to Teach with Computer Science (TCS) resources to provide teacher with
additional resources in planning their lessons according to the SOW.
Department aims for teaching resources:
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To support teachers by procuring and pooling resources to benefit CS teachers and students.
To enrich students learning by using common/shared resources
To organize resources for easy retrieval and improve efficiency.
To collaborate, share teaching/learning ideas to enhance our classroom experience.
Observation and Feedback
regarding the establishment of our
teaching resources framework
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We have a wide collection of
distributed resources, but
there is no central repository
of resources that aligns with
the SOW.
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Teachers individually
tweak/modify TCS
resources or use other
resources to prepare for
their lessons, keeping in line
with the weekly SOW.
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Some teachers are more
comfortable with preparing
their own presentations and
teaching materials while
following the SOW.
Consider these questions
Your answer/comment
Instead of individually tweaking these
resources
to
prepare
our
own
weekly/daily lesson, it would be good to
tweak TCS or even other resources,
adding suitable content and exercises
match correspond our SOW based on
weekly topics.
Consider the proposed roster belowCan
we accomplish the above this semester
for G1?
Proposed planning roster – Sem 1 G1
Teachers
A
B
C
D
E
F
Week
Week
Week
Week
Week
Week
Weeks
4
Week
5
Week
6
Week
7
Week
9
Week
10
Week
11
12
13
14
15
16
Some teachers are
comfortable displaying the
textbook and using the white
board as some topics need
not PPT presentations.
Week 8 is a holiday.
Week 7, half week of teaching G1s
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Teachers may not be able to
prepare PPTs two weeks in
advance.
Would you be able to organise
resources to match our SOW for two
weeks of lesson in this semester?
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It may not be possible to
establish this framework so
quickly.
Would you use these resources
organised by yourself or other
colleagues or you would use different
resources?
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This idea was discussed
with team before presenting
this proposal.
How many days/weeks in advance
should these lessons be organized?
Apologies for its haphazard
introduction. Thank you for
sharing your opinions.
Would you test this framework in week 4
and 5 of this semester?
Any questions/comments/concerns?
The proposed framework
Questions
The current proposed PPT
Structure
Would you recall each topic/subtopic or
recall the previous lesson?
1. Cover page with the
summary of the topics/subtopics for the week
How many topics should we cover in a
40-minute period?
2. Slides with objective, recall
page with extended writing
for each topic.
3. Three slides for each topic
4. A slide with three
differentiated tasks.
The aim of the PPT is to have
content and activities.
The aim is to have an activity
slide after every topic/subtopic
with three different questions for
all students.
The teacher has the liberty to
find their own creative way of
delivering the content and
executing the activity slide,
such as using stations and
students circulating the room to
complete tasks at different
stations.
How much time should we spend on the
recall slide/task?
Would you want three slides per
topic/subtopic. Can there be more or
less slides?
How would you want us to design the
activity slide?
 Using the current Green, Amber,
Red
 Using a different title instead of
Green Amber
 Prepare a worksheet with three
different tasks for everyone to
do.
Your questions/comments