5/23/2017 0 Comments Tuesday, May 23When I hear self advocated I hear independence and ability to adapt to multiple situations. This week we are teaching the thinkabit lab at the Urban Discovery Academy in downtown San Diego, we are working with a variety of age groups from 7th graders to kindergartners so that brought up some challenges to how we adapt our teaching to different ages. We can't teach the Kindergartners the same way we teach the 7th graders and vice versa. We did 7th grade no problem because we all have taught them before, however none of us have done 3rd graders or kinder before so that was daunting at first. As it turns out the 2 3rd grade classes did very well when we taught them coding in my opinion just as good at the older 7th graders. Kinder was more challenging and that is where I think my self advocated spirit came out. Now I have worked at many camps where I have had to lead and teach young children but it was never with hard concepts like coding this scared me at first but it wasn't that bad after I was done. Kinder's do listen well but have a very limited attention span so they will get board fast. We split the kids into 4 groups of 6 so one of us could teach each group 1 on 1 to make it easier. We ran the kinders through an activity similar to the robotic turtles game that helps teach young children the basic concepts of coding. We taped a grid on the ground and had them stand in one square and they had to take directions from there group to move from the start to the x located somewhere on the grid. The person on the grid could only take very precise directions and could only do what the group said. This helps teach the importance of being exact and very precise when coding. Overall I feel like today went really well and I'm looking forward to the rest of this week.
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