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🎡 Morning orientation
Learning Objectives
Planning during the week
👣 Steps
If you haven’t done so already, choose someone (volunteer or trainee) to be the facilitator for this morning orientation block. Choose another to be the timekeeper.
🎙️ The Facilitator will:
- Assemble the entire group (all volunteers & all trainees) in a circle
- Briefly welcome everyone with an announcement, like this:
💬 “Morning everyone, Welcome to CYF {REGION}, this week we are working on {MODULE} {SPRINT} and we’re currently working on {SUMMARISE THE TOPICS OF THE WEEK}”
- Ask any newcomers to introduce themselves to the group, and welcome them.
- Now check: is it the start of a new module? Is it sprint 1? If so, read out the success criteria for the new module.
- Next go through the morning day plan only (typically on the curriculum website) - and check the following things:
Facilitator Checklist
- Check the number of volunteers you have for the morning
- Check someone is leading each session
- Describe how any new activities works for the group
- Decide how best to allocate trainees and volunteers for a given block - most blocks will make this clear
⏰ The Timekeeper will:
- Announce the start of an activity and how long it will take (check everyone is listening)
- Manage any whole class timers that are used in an activity
- Give people a 10-minute wrap-up warning before the end of an activity
- Announce the end of an activity and what happens next
🧰 Workshop Activity
Learning Objectives
This space is for a workshop activity of your choosing. In order for this to actually happen, you must organise it ahead of time.
What is a CYF workshop?
👷🏿♀️ No lectures
Code Your Future workshops are designed to be interactive. Developed by volunteers and trainees, they are not about listening to a lecture. They are about doing, discussing, and learning together.
💪🏾 No spoonfeeding
Workshops are also not tutorials, where you follow along step-by-step. CYF workshops are meant to expose gaps and mistakes in your understanding, so mentors can help you fix them. This means you should expect to be challenged and to make mistakes. This is the main value of mentor-led workshops.
👂🏿 Responding to needs
You can run a workshop in person on class days, or online in the week. Mentors volunteer to run workshops on Slack, and learners propose topics they need help with. There are a huge number of workshops available at workshops.codeyourfuture.io/.
Organise a workshop on Slack
🎲 Games, rules, logic, and strategy
We have some favourite games you can play if you are stuck.
- Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
- Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
- Set: a game of visual perception
- Mastermind: a game of deduction
- Sudoku: a game of logic
- Mancala: a game of strategy
🍽️ Community Lunch
Every Saturday we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.
This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.
🎤 Learn by Teaching
This sprint you should have prepared to teach one of the concepts explored in your prep and backlog.
⏰ Timekeeper
The timekeeper will keep the groups on track. Keep it energetic and give people about a minute to change over before they start teaching again.
📚 Instructions
Split into pairs. Each person will have 3 minutes to present their topic. After the lesson, you and your student will discuss the topic for 3 minutes. Then the student will become the teacher and present their own topic.
🧑🏾🤝🧑🏻 Pairs
1. Model
You will explain your topic to your student. You will have 3 minutes to communicate, in whatever way you have prepared. You can use a drawing, a game, a conversation, or anything you like that will help you communicate the concept, except a computer!
2. Check understanding
After your lesson, you and your student check your understanding for another 3 minutes. Then you will switch roles.
3. Add yourself to another group
At the end of both lessons, join another pair. Pick one of your topics and explain it to the other pair together. They will do the same for you. At the end of both lessons, join another group of four and repeat the process.
💡 Tips:
- Practice your lesson before class.
- Keep it simple. Just choose one concept to explain.
- Keep it short. Three minutes is enough.
🛗 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.
🧰 Workshop Activity
Learning Objectives
This space is for a workshop activity of your choosing. In order for this to actually happen, you must organise it ahead of time.
What is a CYF workshop?
👷🏿♀️ No lectures
Code Your Future workshops are designed to be interactive. Developed by volunteers and trainees, they are not about listening to a lecture. They are about doing, discussing, and learning together.
💪🏾 No spoonfeeding
Workshops are also not tutorials, where you follow along step-by-step. CYF workshops are meant to expose gaps and mistakes in your understanding, so mentors can help you fix them. This means you should expect to be challenged and to make mistakes. This is the main value of mentor-led workshops.
👂🏿 Responding to needs
You can run a workshop in person on class days, or online in the week. Mentors volunteer to run workshops on Slack, and learners propose topics they need help with. There are a huge number of workshops available at workshops.codeyourfuture.io/.
Organise a workshop on Slack
🔄 Retro: Start / Stop / Continue
🕹️Retro (20 minutes)
A retro is a chance to reflect. You can do this on RetroTool (create a free anonymous retro and share the link with the class) or on sticky notes on a wall.
- Set a timer for 5 minutes. There’s one on the RetroTool too.
- Write down as many things as you can think of that you’d like to start, stop, and continue doing next sprint.
- Write one point per note and keep it short.
- When the timer goes off, one person should set a timer for 1 minute and group the notes into themes.
- 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.
- Finally, set a timer for 8 minutes and all discuss the top three themes.