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Integrate active learning to increase students' learning and engagement
Motivate lecture content to help students understand the relevance.
Make the learning outcomes you intend for each activity clear. This helps students identify important ideas.
Don’t conflate interest in computer science with excessive amounts of time spent coding. This can discourage students who feel like they’re not into computer science because they don’t obsess over it.
Encourage questions to have a chance to clarify unclear content.
Require students to self-assess to help students identify what they understand.
Explain your pedagogical moves to help students understand your teaching strategies.
Remind students about resources ot set the expectation that everyone will need help.
Share your own experiences and struggles, and embrace any mistakes you make.
Hold help sessions in public places to reduce power differentials and encourage attendance.
Structure collaboration to help students develop a peer network.
Introduce the growth mindset to help students reflect on their learning process.
Use Piazza to provide an anonymous Q&A forum where both students and instructors can answer questions.
Email students with low grades to communicate you care and believe they can learn.
Explain pair programming goals to motivate students to work together.
When pair programming, assign roles and computers to avoid unnecessary pair negotiations.
Pair students with similar skills to avoid one student dominating the collaboration.
Name common behaviors to encourage productive pairing interactions
Automate role-switching and timing to facilitate role-switching compliance.
Only interact with pairs to support students working together.