Lisa Meeden

Have students pair program to increase their interactions with one another, promote retention of female students, and maximize resources.

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Survey students about their experience in your classroom to identify practices they find encouraging.

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Explicitly state ground rules for classroom and lab behavior to ensure all students feel comfortable and to discourage certain students from dominating discourse.

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Create a group of student mentors who have already completed your school’s introductory computer science courses to give current students peer role models.

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Provide consistent feedback opportunities from the very first day of the course to assist struggling students early on and prevent them from falling behind.

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Use Python as an introductory language rather than Java or C to allow students to focus on problem-solving more than syntax.

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