Still in early stages, I’ve only been teaching them for 5 weeks so far (1 hour per week).
My approach is to set them onto a task, and get them to attempt it on their own. If they are struggling, I tell them that before I will help them they need to just try a few of the first things that come to mind, see what happens, and if they still need help I will walk them through figuring it out for themselves.
Only very rarely do I explicitly tell any of the kids how to do a specific thing.
So the kids I teach are about 7-12 years old.
Still in early stages, I’ve only been teaching them for 5 weeks so far (1 hour per week).
My approach is to set them onto a task, and get them to attempt it on their own. If they are struggling, I tell them that before I will help them they need to just try a few of the first things that come to mind, see what happens, and if they still need help I will walk them through figuring it out for themselves.
Only very rarely do I explicitly tell any of the kids how to do a specific thing.
Thanks! :-)
What kind of tasks? Is it a game like LightBot, or an educational tool like Scratch, or a real programming language straight away?
We use the block courses of the website Code.Org. It’s similar to scratch in some regards. Not familiar with LightBot.