Overview

The Computing Foundations for a Digital Age (4565) course is one option for your students to meet the computer science (CS) graduation requirement passed during the 2024 legislative session. For more information on this course and its implementation, please see the Next Level Programs of Study page on the Commission for Higher Education’s website.

Professional Development

Join Nextech for just-in-time, no-cost professional learning throughout the spring semester! We will provide the curriculum, context and community, to ensure your success teaching this course. This workshop will cover the five required topics including computing systems, networks and the internet, data and analysis, algorithms and impacts of computing. 

Workshop Format

We will meet on Wednesdays throughout the spring semester with a kick-off in December 2024. Each session will meet from 6-8:30 PM Eastern via Zoom. Office hours for 1:1 support will also be available throughout the semester. 

The kick-off will cover how to prepare to teach the course and the first two weeks of your semester. Each subsequent session will provide professional learning aligned with course/competencies to prepare you for what’s upcoming in the curriculum.

What You Will Receive

• Curriculum (including teacher lesson plans, a pacing guide, rubrics and examples/exemplars) using 
• Code.org’s CS Discoveries and Foundations of Computer Science courses.
• All lessons, curriculum and units are aligned to Indiana standards and the competencies for the NLPS Course Computing Foundations for a Digital Age (4565).
• A set of virtual workshops led by Indiana teachers who have taught and are teaching the content in their classroom plus open office hours for 1:1 support. 
• PGP hours and a stipend of $400-$700, depending on the number of sessions that you attend. We know your time is valuable, so we want to be sure that we are recognizing the effort and time you are putting into teaching this course outside of your school hours. All sessions are open to anyone that needs the content, however participants must attend at least 4 sessions to be eligible for the minimum stipend (partial stipends are not available to attendees of fewer than 4 sessions).

Eligibility and Pre-Requisites

This workshop is for any teachers new to teaching computer science that need support and a 4565 curriculum or those who have taught computer science but need support and resources for this course.

Workshop Details

• Cost: $0
• Dates:
  • Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6:00-8:30 PM ET, Virtual
  • Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 6:00-8:30 PM ET, Virtual
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 6:00-8:30 PM ET, Virtual
  • Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 6:00-8:30 PM ET, Virtual
  • Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 6:00-8:30 PM ET, Virtual
  • Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 6:00-8:30 PM ET, Virtual
  • Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 6:00-8:30 PM ET, Virtual
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Alignment Resource

To assist you in teaching this course, we have created an alignment of the Computing Foundations for a Digital Age (4565) Content Standards and Competencies to the Code.org curriculum.

We recognize that every school has unique needs and have developed three different scope and sequence options for potential use with the 4565 course. These options take into account the need to differentiate the 4565 course (in middle schools) from other computer science courses (and their curriculum) offered to 6th and 7th graders. All alignment options utilize six code.org units to align to the Computing Foundations for a Digital Age (4565).

Interested in just the course alignment resource?