====== Week 2: General Pedagogical Skills and Lesson Planning ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Learn strategies for an effective classroom instruction
  * Learn basic classroom management skills
  * Learn how to create lesson plans

===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

Required Readings
  * Ormrod, J. E. (2006). Instructional Strategies
  * Problem-based Learning (2001), Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching, 11(1)
Online Modules 
  * [[http://www.apa.org/education/k12/classroom-mgmt.aspx|APA Module on Classroom Management]]
  * [[http://www.apa.org/education/k12/misconceptions.aspx|Overcoming students' alternate conceptions]]
  
===== Topics =====

  * Teacher-centered vs. Learner-centered instruction
  * Problem-based learning
    * Case-based Instruction 
    * Project-based learning
  * Challenging Student Misconceptions
  * Motivation

===== Reflection Question =====
  * Why is learner-centered instruction better than teacher-directed instruction?
  * What are some of the challenges to managing a CS lab and how do you propose to overcome those challenges?
  * What are some of the misconceptions students encounter in CS? How would you challenge student misconceptions?

===== Lab ======

  * Review of Lesson Planning
  * Designing the “First CS Lesson”