Two lessons that establish an honest map of where you are starting from, a working understanding of what the JC Coding Short Course requires, and a productive Lead Learner mindset for delivering it without pretending to be a CS expert.
| Welcome, Confidence Audit and the Lead Learner Mindset | ||
| The JC Coding Short Course: Three Strands, One CBA, 100 Hours |
Engagement is the highest-frequency challenge in JC Coding. This module addresses the two most reliable levers: making a deliberate language-pathway decision, and using physical computing and cross-curricular hooks to make coding tangible and relevant.
| Choosing Your Language Pathway | ||
| Physical Computing and Cross-curricular Hooks |
Two lessons covering the cross-strand pedagogy that makes JC Coding teachable: evidence-based programming pedagogy aligned to the spec's computational-thinking framing, and the AI, ethics, and society content threaded through all three strands.
| Programming Pedagogy for Novices, PRIMM, Computational Thinking, and Debugging | ||
| AI in Coding, from Assistants to Agents, Ethics and Computers in Society |
The JC Coding Short Course has one Classroom-Based Assessment, offering students a choice between a team software project and an individual portfolio. This is the longest module because the CBA is where good teaching most directly affects student outcomes. Participants interpret the Features of Quality, coach the choice, supervise the process, mark fairly, and prepare for the SLAR.
| The CBA, Two Approaches and the Features of Quality | ||
| Coaching the CBA, Choosing the Approach and Supervising the Process | ||
| Marking the CBA and Preparing for the SLAR |
JC Coding is, for many schools, the recruitment pipeline into Leaving Cert Computer Science, a progression the spec explicitly names. This module treats that pipeline deliberately, with attention to the persistent gender gap and the wide ability spread, then closes with the participant's year plan and final reflection.
| From JC Coding to LC CS, the Recruitment Pipeline | ||
| Your Year Plan and Final Reflection |
Two lessons that establish an honest map of where you are starting from, a working understanding of what the JC Coding Short Course requires, and a productive Lead Learner mindset for delivering it without pretending to be a CS expert.
| Welcome, Confidence Audit and the Lead Learner Mindset | ||
| The JC Coding Short Course: Three Strands, One CBA, 100 Hours |
Engagement is the highest-frequency challenge in JC Coding. This module addresses the two most reliable levers: making a deliberate language-pathway decision, and using physical computing and cross-curricular hooks to make coding tangible and relevant.
| Choosing Your Language Pathway | ||
| Physical Computing and Cross-curricular Hooks |
Two lessons covering the cross-strand pedagogy that makes JC Coding teachable: evidence-based programming pedagogy aligned to the spec's computational-thinking framing, and the AI, ethics, and society content threaded through all three strands.
| Programming Pedagogy for Novices, PRIMM, Computational Thinking, and Debugging | ||
| AI in Coding, from Assistants to Agents, Ethics and Computers in Society |
The JC Coding Short Course has one Classroom-Based Assessment, offering students a choice between a team software project and an individual portfolio. This is the longest module because the CBA is where good teaching most directly affects student outcomes. Participants interpret the Features of Quality, coach the choice, supervise the process, mark fairly, and prepare for the SLAR.
| The CBA, Two Approaches and the Features of Quality | ||
| Coaching the CBA, Choosing the Approach and Supervising the Process | ||
| Marking the CBA and Preparing for the SLAR |
JC Coding is, for many schools, the recruitment pipeline into Leaving Cert Computer Science, a progression the spec explicitly names. This module treats that pipeline deliberately, with attention to the persistent gender gap and the wide ability spread, then closes with the participant's year plan and final reflection.
| From JC Coding to LC CS, the Recruitment Pipeline | ||
| Your Year Plan and Final Reflection |
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