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Build relationships with local college faculty or software engineers so you can periodically ask them for email-based debugging help for students.

  • Local college faculty may be interested in helping you out because this is a great way for them to help more students engage with computer science.
  • This is especially helpful if you’re new to teaching CS and are still learning CS yourself.

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Situate projects in your students interests and the real world.
Create formal and informal environments for spending time with your mentees to build multifaceted personal and professional relationships.
Create hands-on, meaningful, and relevant projects where students produce artifacts that require rigorous CS content-knowledge and software engineering skills.

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Mention to students that individual blocks in Scratch and Snap can be tested by double clicking them in the block library so they know this useful, non-intuitive trick for learning what an individual block does.
Have students make a multiplication table to practice working with 2D arrays, nested loops, and abstraction using a data construct they’re already familiar with.
When giving group work to students in class, assign students roles and have them introduce themselves to ensure your students feel comfortable asking each other for help.

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