self-assess your skills

self-assess your skills

After you've participated in a lesson or completed an activity, you want to Reflect on how you participated:

self-assess your skills

Exercise:

Think back to an exercise from yesterday and answer the following questions for yourself:

How far did I get?

How much is left?

How was the process?

Did I set the stage well?

Did I continually challenge myself and still have fun?

What can I do better next time?

We'll share back in just a bit!

self-assess your skills

Navigate and manage a file system with the CLI

• Create, rename and delete files and folders
• Copy files and folders
• Read and write files
• List directory contents
• Navigate using relative and home-directory-relative paths
• Use tab completion and history navigation to speed up development

Exercise:

Read the following standard and make sure to
Define Terms & Understand Actions

self-assess your skills

Navigate and manage a file system with the CLI

• Create, rename and delete files and folders
• Copy files and folders
• Read and write files
• List directory contents
• Navigate using relative and home-directory-relative paths
• Use tab completion and history navigation to speed up development

Exercise:

For each bullet point, ask yourself the following:

• Do I understand what is being asked?
• Can I do what is being asked from memory?
• Can I answer how it happens and why it happens?

Write down those bullet points you don't feel you've mastered.

Create & grow

create & grow

We will provide many opportunities for you to demonstrate mastery; however, you will need to have ownership over your learning to excel.

create & grow

Let's take the following Success Criteria:
Read and write files

How might we study this so that we can attain mastery?

create & grow

Exercise:

Let's take the following Success Criteria:
Navigate using relative and home-directory-relative paths

How might we study this so that we can attain mastery?

Write an exercise allows someone to practice this skill. Make sure to include the Success Criteria and instructions!

create & grow

Exercise:

Take the following Standard and create an exercise that covers at least 3 of the Success Criteria.

Write and Evaluate Javascript expressions

• Use operators &&, ||
• String concatenation
• Math operations
• Precedence / parenthesis
• Prefix / Postfix notation for integers
• Variables (var, let, const)
• Literals

test yourself with teaching

test yourself with teaching

Recall that Doing & Teaching is the best way to learn!

test yourself with teaching

How to do our jobs:
How to teach a breakout or lesson:

test yourself with teaching

Types of Lessons:
(A necessarily abridged version)
 

test yourself with teaching

There are many opportunities to teach:

Mastery Training Time during Class

Breakouts

Meetups

Mentorship Opportunities with Other Classes

Learn & Lunch with Galvanize Members & Employees

test yourself with teaching

Presentation & Slides (Visual & high Level)

Self-led Project (Students work individually with help)

Mini Exercises (I Do, We Do, You Do)

Code Along (Everyone ends up with the same code)

Exercise:

Pick one of the following options and briefly outline how you would use it to teach the following Standard:

Perform basic functions in vim

• Open a file
• Toggle between command mode and edit mode
• Save a file and quit