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Try multiple strategies to support collaboration in your CS classroom

Hannah McDowell put together an awesome resource with different structures for collaborative learning! 

For each structure, this guide provides… 

  • Slide 1: Student-facing general description of structure
  • Slide 2: Teacher-facing details of a possible implementation
  • Slide 3: Teacher-facing specific use case with tips and tricks

The guide covers the following goals/structures: 

  • Introducing new code
    • Notice and Wonder
  • Analyzing code
    • Code Talks
    • Same but Different
  • Writing code
    • Pair Programming
    • VNPS Coding

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