From 60cda1d6a2bb2d344713be691131269323076417 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jen Looper Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:41:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] TTT content --- README.md | 2 ++ for-teachers.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 for-teachers.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 49193ded..a9d41ae2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML basics. Each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment and more. Our project-based pedagogy allows you to learn while building, a proven way for new skills to 'stick'. +> Teachers, we have [included some suggestions](for-teachers.md) on how to use this curriculum. If you would like to create your own lessons, we have also included a [lesson template](lesson-template/README.md) + [![Promo video](screenshot.png)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kQyTzefCHxI "Promo video") > Click the image above for a video about the project and the folks who created it! diff --git a/for-teachers.md b/for-teachers.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c3ebacb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/for-teachers.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +## For Educators + +Would you like to use this curriculum in your classroom? Please feel free! + +In fact, you can use it within GitHub itself by using GitHub Classroom. + +To do that, fork this repo. You are going to need to create a repo for each lesson, so you're going to need to extract each folder into a separate repo. That way, [GitHub Classroom](https://classroom.github.com/classrooms) can pick up each lesson separately. + +These [full instructions](https://github.blog/2020-03-18-set-up-your-digital-classroom-with-github-classroom/) will give you an idea how to set up your classroom. + +## Using the repo as is + +If you would like to use this repo as it currently stands, without using GitHub Classroom, that can be done as well. You would need to communicate with your students which lesson to work through together. + +In an online format (Zoom, Teams, or other) you might form breakout rooms for the quizzes, and mentor students to help them get ready to learn. Then invite students to for the quizzes and submit their answers as 'issues' at a certain time. You might do the same with assignments, if you want students to work collaboratively out in the open. + +If you prefer a more private format, ask your students to fork the curriculum, lesson by lesson, to their own GitHub repos as private repos, and give you access. Then they can complete quizzes and assignments privately and submit them to you via issues on your classroom repo. + +There are many ways to make this work in an online classroom format. Please let us know what works best for you! \ No newline at end of file