Findings Support for CS Students, parents, and educators in rural or small-town school districts value CS highly, like those living in large cities and suburbs. Students in rural or small-town school districts are just as likely as students in large-city and suburban school districts to: • Say they will have a job someday where they need to know some CS (30% very likely, 56% somewhat likely) • Agree that CS can be used in a lot of different types of jobs (96%) • Say they are interested in learning CS (24% very interested, 58% somewhat interested) Parents, teachers, principals and superintendents in rural or small-town school districts think offering CS learning opportunities in school is just as important or even more important than offering elective courses, such as art, music and foreign languages, and required courses, such as math, science, history and English.(1)
Present day situations have created a cataclysmic effort for schools to provide not only technology education, but access to technology for all students and pedagogical approaches to learning online by teachers. This effort has created a strain on teacher workload, the challenges of student isolation, absence of interaction as classmates within a group setting. How to address these dilemmas not only requires resources, but personalized learning and strategic thinking in getting all stakeholders to collaborate and cooperate under these circumstances.
Through Cii methods of process management, we first look at the process used to deliver curriculum and if the online learning in place will lead to application and mastery. If it doesn’t, that is where Cii comes in. With our ability to personalize each students learning journey and coach both teacher and student through process management, we help organize learning, the process in which it is delivered, and the student’s mastery of the learning through project application. In this process, students are also required to work in groups online, through social distancing, and research their topic for further application of concepts learned.
Cii emphasizes computer coding and advanced coding through computer competency education. Not only learning the industry skill but applying it to a real-world problem. Using MOS Excel, Unity, and Python as well as Advanced Placement seminar and research methods, students incorporate learning into mastery through research, data, and application.
Through a complimentary review session based in data and surveys of your present programming, we design a personalized “Success Plan,” to suggest move your organization forward in both computer coding and instructional design through our Cii Mastery Curriculum.
(1) Google Inc. & Gallup Inc. (2017, August). Computer Science Learning: Closing the Gap: Rural and Small Town School Districts. Results From the 2015-2016 Google-Gallup Study of Computer Science in U.S. K-12 Schools (Issue Brief No. 4). Retrieved from https://goo.gl/hYxqCr