I’ve focused on completing my CS&A class the past week and am proceeding slowly. It’s really be slow going due to ‘competing priorities’. My goal is to have the first unit complete by the time I leave the US and an understanding in at least outline form of what I’ll do for the whole year. Since it is so similar to what I did last year in the first half of the year, I am taking the CSTA standard curriculum, Exploring Computer Science version 5.0 as my guide. I am adding version 3.0 activities as well as my own lesson plans where I see them as appropriate.
My MS Computers class is getting less love. For them, I am using a computer curriculum I have found at CAS which involves much less computer science and more web apps for developing interest. It is much more focused on having the kids chart their own paths more or less.
The one thing I haven’t done is create the ‘badges’ I talked about doing last year and replacing my assessment system with badges. That is still largely theoretical.