Access Curriculum (AP CSP - Code.org)

Find the link in the Curriculum Section of your TEALS Dashboard and click on it. This will take you to the Code.org AP CS Principles curriculum.

Find and read the "Curriculum Guide" (this is a long document).While you read, consider your own experience as a computer science student.

It is often difficult for people to teach something in a way that is different from how they themselves learned the material initially. One strategy to overcome this tendency is to surface the differences between how you learned something and how you are going to teach it. The following reflection questions will help you surface and consider how this course is similar and different to whatever introductory CS class you took.

Assignment Instructions

Paste the following reflection questions and answers into an email to your regional manager.

1. In what ways do the teaching values for this course seem similar to the instruction you received when you were learning CS?
2. How are the instructional values different from what you experienced?
3. The tools used in this course are educational rather than professional, meaning they're built to encourage experimentation rather than optimize performance.
4. What type of tools did you use when first learning about computer science (professional or educational)?
5. Do you remember any pain points of whatever tools you used?
6. CS Principles covers a very broad set of topics (the College Board has identified over 300 distinct learning statements that can be assessed on the AP exam) What concepts covered in CSP are similar to concepts you learned in your first CS course?
7. What concepts are different?