Differentiation

In the first post, we looked at why differentiation matters in computer science. Students come into our classrooms with different backgrounds, confidence levels, reading skills, problem-solving habits, and experiences with technology. The goal is not to lower the bar. The goal is to help more students reach it. One place to start is with content. Content is what students use to access the learning. In a computer science classroom, that might include notes, directions, code ex

Computer science classrooms are rarely level playing fields. In the same room, you may have a student who has been coding for years sitting next to a student who has never written a single line of code. One student may understand the logic of an if statement but struggle to write the syntax correctly. Another student may get a program to run but have no idea how to explain what the code actually does. That is what makes teaching computer science both exciting and challenging.