Teacher Resources
Educative Teacher Resources for CS Standards
View an example educative teacher resource, Unpacking Middle School Algorithms, for the Algorithms standard.
Each ASSIST educative teacher resource comprises four components to help teachers understand each standard more deeply.
- Scope of the Standard includes a description of the content area, target grade band, domain-specific vocabulary, and boundaries of the standard (e.g., pre-requisite concepts, coverage, and progression).
- Fine-Grained Learning Targets includes a set of discrete, granular knowledge and abilities representing what students with proficiency on a certain standard should know and be able to do.
- Learning Targets in Action presents examples of each learning target in practice. For programming-centered standards (2-AP-11, 2-AP-12, and 2-AP-14), we provide examples in three different programming languages (Scratch, Python, and JavaScript) to highlight how the same concept is represented across languages.
- Student Challenges includes a list of student challenges associated with each standard and examples of what these challenges look like in practice to alert teachers to conceptual pitfalls that students are likely to experience.
Below is an example of how we define the scope of the standard for 2-AP-12 (combined control structures).
Below is an example of how we decomposed the broad 2-AP-12 standard on combined control structures into granular learning targets.
Below is an example of how we illustrate the learning target for nested loops aligned with the 2-AP-12 standard in three different programming languages.
Below is an example of one type of student challenge for 2-AP-12 (standard on combined control structures), specifically related to nested loops.
