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Coding

How to Teach Coding Without Knowing How to Code

by Brain Ninjas

If you don't know how to code, but you are expected to teach coding, we've put together activities you can use without any experience.

It seems that teachers are expected to have a wealth of knowledge about everything under the sun. Even as the world changes, they keep adding the new learning to the old content so that students will benefit.

Coding is a vital skill and there are so many ways it enriches the classroom. However, many teachers feel completely inadequate to teach coding because they have never been taught to code.

That’s ok. Coding isn’t about knowing how to code. It’s about knowing how to problem solve and we already know that’s where teachers excel. Come learn some of the ways you can teach coding without being able to code.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Coding, Computer Science, professional development, Professional Learning, science, Science Lessons, Teachers Pay Teachers, Unplugged Coding, Visual Block-Based Coding

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