Intermediate Courses

Curriculum Writing Workshop are designed to help participants develop skills in creating or modifying computer science (CS) lessons that are aligned with Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) CS K-8 Standards of Learning.

Micro Session #3 gives participants an opportunity to explore the curriculum frameworks and lessons aligned to integrating the Virginia Computer Science standards.

Micro Session #4 gives participants an opportunity to explore CS content and lessons with both unplugged and plugged integration into other content areas.

Learn how to implement the Code.org AP Computer Science A curriculum, which focuses on broadening participation in college-level CS coursework through accessible CS learning with Java.

AP Computer Science Principles is a college-level high school CS course that covers the foundational concepts of computer science and challenges students to explore how computing and technology can impact the world. This professional learning course prepares educators to teach this class to 9-12th grade students using the Code.org AP CSP curriculum, providing a primer to the course content and the AP exam.

These quick "bytes" explore compute science concepts, pedagogical strategies and resources to support computer science integration at every skill, content and grade level.

These quick "bytes" explore compute science concepts, pedagogical strategies and resources to support computer science integration at every skill, content and grade level.

Computer Science Integration helps teachers explore the Computer Science Standards of Learning and learn how to best integrate them into other content areas with students.

Computer Science Integration will help teachers explore Computer Science and learn how to integrate the VA CS SOLs into core curriculum with students.

Middle School Elective (CSD) Part II further prepares educators to teach the Code.org elective Computer Science Discoveries by unpacking the last four modules while developing a deeper understanding of computer science and computational thinking.

The "CS for CTE: Endorsement, Expertise, Empowerment" grant-funded initiative is a year-long program aimed at providing educators with the necessary resources to deepen their understanding and technical skills in computer science. This APPLICATION is for high school educators who would like to prepare for the Virginia Computer Science PRAXIS exam, enabling them to achieve a Virginia CS endorsement.

This course builds upon participants' prior knowledge of the Python coding language, tools, and concepts, covering functions with parameters and return values, lists/dictionaries, and iteration.

Programming Using Scratch II builds upon participant's knowledge of Scratch programming tools and concepts as well as introduce and expand their knowledge on using variables, operators, sensing blocks, and My Blocks within the programming platform.