If this looks like too much: delegate, delegate, delegate.
Just because you are leading the week, it does not mean that you have to do all the work for it. A lot of the interactions during the week are short, do not need preparation, and fun.
Do not hesitate to plunder material from previous courses and do not take on more work that you can comfortably handle. Work in pairs or threes or even groups of four, but make sure that at least one person each day is responsible for keeping to the timetable.
- Assemble your team
- Invite a speaker (or two) - remember to speak to Dan and Ines to see if we've already had any great speakers on your subjects in the past
- Actions to take:
- Meet with the previous week's course leaders
- Check Stop, Go, Continue notes for any change requests
- Tweak the timetable for your week
- Check if any learning outcomes from previous week still need completing
- Update the relevant pages on the book to reflect the new content
- Materials to prepare and things to organise:
- Weekend assignment for the previous Friday (what do students need to research for your week?)
- All-day workshop for Monday
- Topics for Tuesday (no more than 16 learning outcomes total)
- Speakers and MVP pitches for Monday and Tuesday
- Morning challenges for Tuesday and Wednesday
- Project for Wednesday
- Find volunteers for office hours on Wednesday and Thursday
- Find volunteer for Friday upstairs project presentation
- External reviewer for Friday code review
- Put the timetable for that day up on a whiteboard
- Update Stop, Go, Continue notes
- Review this checklist
- Review the course content and amend as necessary
- Hand-over to next week's course leaders
10:00 Run Show & Tell session
10:15 Introduce learning topics for jigsaw classroom, project preview
13:30 Remind jigsaw teams to review learnings
14:00 Remind people to pair up to review READMEs
14:45 Remind people to get back into jigsaw teams
15:30 Remind jigsaw teams to get together for a final review
16:00 Run Jigsaw presentations
17:00 Present invited Speaker
18:00 Wrap up by 6
- the exact timetable for jigsaw days is still somewhat in flux.
10:00 Introduce morning challenge
10:45 Review morning challenge
11:15 Run morning challenge solution walk-through
11:30 Introduce and run workshop
15:00 Introduce project
17:00 Present invited Speaker
18:00 Wrap up by 6
10:00 Introduce morning challenge
10:45 Review morning challenge
11:15 Run morning challenge solution walk-through
11:30 Projects resume
17:00 Office hours
17:45 Run learning points review
13:00 Run mid-point project reviews
17:00 Office hours
10:00 Code review kick-off
11:30 Stop code reviews give people a chance to respond to issues
13:00 Remind people to close their own issues and announce Stop, Go, Continue
13:30 Stop, Go, Continue review
14:15 Introduce Upstairs project presentation
15:00 Remind people about business development
15:15 Remind people to stop work and do an in-team project review
15:45 Run the whiteboard walkthrough
16:30 Introduce invited speaker and run project presentations