{"id":950,"date":"2009-03-28T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teaching-other-peoples-kids\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:04:43","slug":"teaching-other-peoples-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teaching-other-peoples-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Other People’s Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually hate this but it turned out to be a fun day.<\/p>\n

My district gets ALL the AP kids together for Super Saturday tutoring for AP subjects.  They have different days — and Computer Science is lumped into Math usually.<\/p>\n

So we have kids from every high school — busses bring them in.  And we've had some real behavior problems — at lunch one year one kid hit another kid hard enough we had to call 911.<\/p>\n

We usually host it at Townview — which is a center which houses a bunch of our Magnet schools including SEM (Science and Engineering Magnet) and TAG (Talented and Gifted Magnet).<\/p>\n

In the past, it is been a huge chore as the kids were REALLY hard to get along with.  The first group was a bit tough but I just sat there (like I do with my 6th period class), and quietly said “you won't get credit for this if I don't present, and I won't present if you are not quiet".  <\/p>\n

Did the trick.<\/p>\n

I also think my Geek toys helped.  I demonstrated my “Think Geek” Personal Area Network shirt and they really loved it and one kid wondered outloud if I was getting a cut, but I don't — I just like the shirts — would it be too Geekie if I wore them every day?  FYI: http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts-apparel\/unisex\/generic\/af26<\/a> and I'm even mentioned in the product review!!!!!<\/p>\n

I also was on the internet with my phone and had my IGo charger plugged into it so I wouldn't lose power.  They thought it was cool that it was "3G". iPhone and ATT have done a good job. <\/p>\n

I covered the 2006 Design Question and it went well.  I was WAY over prepared and that helped too,<\/p>\n

The fun part — one kid from the first session asked if I would please come teach at SEM, and the second group all asked if they could come to my school for tutoring.<\/p>\n

It got better!!!! At the end of the day, lots of them thanked me! <\/p>\n

Oh and they did learn something new — this.  For the non-CS person — this is a noun in Java and other programming languages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually hate this but it turned out to be a fun day. My district gets ALL the AP kids together for Super Saturday tutoring for AP subjects.  They have different days — and Computer Science is lumped into Math usually. So we have kids from every high school — busses bring them in.  And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}