Create an anticipation guide to elicit prior knowledge, identify misconceptions, and prepare students for a lesson.
Ask an open-ended question and encourage constant student participation, rather than responding to the class after each student makes a point, to lead engaging discussions and debates.
Use descriptive variable names to model good naming practice so that students learn the value of descriptive names.
Model writing code using the following techniques to show students how you think about constructing programs in order to support them in learning to independently think through algorithm development.
Misconception: Students believe that while loops tell the program when to stop rather than when to continue.
Find examples that help motivate difficult abstract concepts - like passing in a value to a function - to help students see their usefulness.