🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽 day-plan

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  1. Energiser
  2. Growth Mindset
  3. Morning break
  4. Triangles
  5. Lunch
  6. Study Group
  7. Code Review
  8. Afternoon break
  9. Study Group
  10. Code Review
  11. Retro

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Energiser

Every session begins with an energiser. Usually there’s a rota showing who will lead the energiser. We have some favourite games you can play if you are stuck.

  1. Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
  2. Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
  3. Popcorn show and tell: popcorn around the room and show one nearby object or something in your pocket or bag and explain what it means to you.

Growth Mindset

Learning Objectives

Preparation

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Introduction

The importance of a growth mindset is the ability to be resilient, continuously learning, and the belief that intelligence and abilities can be developed through dedication and effort.

Fixed vs growth mindset

🎯 Goal: To discuss the characteristics of fixed and growth mindsets (20 minutes)

  1. Form small groups (3-4 people) and discuss the characteristics of fixed and growth mindsets.
  2. Write down examples of fixed and growth mindset.
  3. As a class, create a collaborative board (e.g. Google Jamboard).
  4. Share the examples you discussed in your group.
  5. Compare the differences between the two mindsets on the board.

Reflecting on fixed mindset experiences

🎯 Goal: To reflect on one’s instances of a fixed mindset and identify where the growth mindset could have been adopted (20 minutes)

You have written about your fixed mindset experiences as part of the preparation for this session.

Volunteer to share your experience with the class, talk about your past experiences and provide support to each other.

Quiz results discussion

🎯 Goal: To identify the characteristics of growth mindset (15 minutes)

  1. Group people according to their quiz results
    • Strong growth mindset.
    • Growth mindset but with some fixed ideas
    • Fixed mindset, but with some growth ideas
    • Strong fixed mindset.
  2. Talk in these groups about how you can support each other. Sharing a common mindset empowers us to support each other in changing.

Morning Break

A quick break of fifteen minutes so we can all concentrate on the next piece of work.

Triangles 🔗

Learning objectives

🧰 Setup

In this workshop, you’ll need to:

  1. Split up into groups of 4

Context

To begin, you’ll need some context.

Use this page 👉 https://www.mathsisfun.com/triangle.html to get the names of different triangles depending on their three side lengths.
There should be 3 different names. Check with each other that you all understand what these names mean.

Problem statement

In this workshop, you’ll need to implement a function that takes the three side lengths of a triangle and returns a string indicating whether it is "equilateral", "isoceles" or "scalene"

Acceptance criteria

First, name the function according to the problem statement. The name should be semantic. It should convey what the function does.
Then set out acceptance criteria for your function in the format shown below:

Given …
When …
Then …

🧪 Write your first assertion

Write your first assertion using console.assert to check the functionality. You can write your code in triangles.js

🧱 Start building up your functionality

Once you’ve got your first assertion down, you’ll need to start building out your functionality for this case.

Lunch

Take your lunch break and be back in an hour!

Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

🛎️ 0 PRs available. Open some pull requests! 🔗

Afternoon Break

Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.

If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.

Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

🛎️ 0 PRs available. Open some pull requests! 🔗

Retro: Start / Stop / Continue

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A retro is a chance to reflect. You can do this on a FigJam (make sure someone makes a copy of the template before you start) or on sticky notes on a wall.

  1. Set a timer for 5 minutes. There’s one on the FigJam too.
  2. Write down as many things as you can think of that you’d like to start, stop, and continue doing next sprint.
  3. Write one point per note and keep it short.
  4. When the timer goes off, one person should set a timer for 1 minute and group the notes into themes.
  5. Next, set a timer for 2 minutes and all vote on the most important themes by adding a dot or a +1 to the note.
  6. Finally, set a timer for 8 minutes and all discuss the top three themes.