Projects

Guiding Students to Success Inquiry and Project Based learning are key concepts in modern pedagogy. As a Computer Science teacher, I believe it is especially important that I align my assessments as closely as I can to the experience that most students will have if they become Software Engineers. This isn’t just important because it helps prepare them for future jobs, it also helps to learn the programming languages better. As we discussed in my previous post, most exercises created for CS courses are very small.

Projects in the Classroom Computer Science is the perfect subject for practicing Inquiry and Project based learning. In this article, I will explain why it is such a foundational part of my pedagogy and provide a quick overview of how projects are structured in my class to maximize student opportunities to learn how to learn. How I Do Projects When building a project for a programming class, I focus first on which skills I want students to practice.