Resources
Across all of the schools, there was a wide variety of curricular materials and PD resources used. Some of these materials were developed by the project team; some materials were developed in collaboration between the PD providers and teachers to meet specific teachers’ needs; and some materials were well-established materials from outside developers.
Below is a list of these resources.
Informational Resources Developed by the Project Team:
LEARN from the project team about CT integration efforts, our learnings and more about this work!
READ about this work and what we’ve learned:
- Learn about strategies for supporting CT in elementary schools
- Learn about strategies for assessing CT within core content areas
- Learn about the barriers to integration teachers reported during early stages of their CT integration efforts
- Learn about case models’ similarities and differences in early stages of the project through cross-case comparisons analysis.
Professional Development Resources Used in Case Models:
The CT Integration Framework, developed by project partners, helps schools complete a self-assessment in order to determine their starting places, develop short and long term goals, and prioritize elements of CT to focus on during each stage of integration.
The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) developed the following Computational Thinking Strategy Guide to help serve as a road-map for teachers to build foundational steps towards integrating computational thinking across curriculum subjects through unplugged (without technology) and plugged (with technology) activities.
Curricular Resources:
Case models relied on a variety of coding platforms and technology-focused curricular materials . The following list includes resources used across the case models:
Resources for supporting diversity and inclusion in CS/CT integration efforts:
- Guide to Inclusive Computer Science Education
- Hour of Code Diversity posters and one-page informational documents for supporting and advertising your participation in the Hour of Code
- TACTICal teaching for effective CS co-teaching and using the Universal Design for Learning for Computer Science
- The Computer Science Toolkit for Families provides tips and links for helping communicate to the broader school community the role of CT in the classroom and examples for how families can support CT in the home.
Additional Resources:
In addition to these resources, below are examples of CS/CT standards and learning trajectories: