Event Description

ALL SESSIONS ARE FULL

Educators currently enrolled in the Foundations of CS for Teachers: TExES Prep online course will be provided an opportunity this summer to participate in virtual certification preparation support sessions at no cost to reinforce concepts and work through practice problems. Participants are expected to have completed the online coursework associated with the session they will be attending. 

DAILY SCHEDULE

8:30am:  Zoom open to participants to log-in, walk through logistics of the platform, ask questions, etc
9:00-11:10am:  Content delivery and activities with a 10 minute break in the middle
11:10-11:50am:  Lunch break
11:50-2:00pm:  Content delivery and activities with a 10 minute break in the middle
2:00-3:00pm:  (OPTIONAL) Open question period

Session 1 – June 11 (Thursday)  

Intro to 241 test

Week 1 

Week 6 

Week 7

Session 2 – June 23 (Tuesday)

Week 2

First part of Week 3

Session 3 – July 14 (Tuesday) 

Finish Week 3

First part of Week 4

Session 4 – July 30 (Thursday)  

Finish Week 4

Weeks 5

Questions from Week 7 (time permitting) 

Concepts by Week

Week 1  (Software Design and Programming)

• Software Design

• Software Development

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Programming Languages

• Data Types

• Number Bases

Week 2 (Programming Fundamentals)

• Sequential Processing

• Operators

• Methods and Parameters

• Conditional Processing

• Multi-case

Week 3 (Loops and Recursion)

• Iterative Processing - Using Loops

• Iterative Processing - Using Recursion

Week 4  (Data Structures)

• Arrays

• Stacks

• Queues

• Linked LIsts

• Binary Trees

• Graphs

Week 5 (More OOP, Algorithms, Searches, and Sorts)

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Algorithm Analysis - Big O Intro

• Searches

• Sorts

• Algorithm Analysis - Big O Revisited

Week 6 (Tech Apps Standards)

• Hardware, Software, Networking, Use of Electronic Resources and Internet

• Use of Application Software

• Use of Instructional Technology

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Logistics

Space is limited to 40 participants per session and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. 

HOW TO REGISTER 

Educators currently enrolled in the Foundations of CS for Teachers: TExES Prep online course will receive an email during the week of May 18-22 with links to register for each sessions. If you want to sign up for all four sessions, you will need to register for all four separately.

(The Personal Registration box below is not active). 

Schedule

8:30 am to 3:00 pm