🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏾 day-plan

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  1. Energiser
  2. Morning orientation
  3. Workshop
  4. lunch
  5. Study Group
  6. Code Review
  7. Afternoon break
  8. Study Group
  9. Retro

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Energiser

Every session begins with an energiser. Usually there’s a rota showing who will lead the energiser. We have some favourite games you can play if you are stuck.

  1. Traffic Jam: re-order the cars to unblock yourself
  2. Telephone: draw the words and write the pictures
  3. Popcorn show and tell: popcorn around the room and show one nearby object or something in your pocket or bag and explain what it means to you.

🎡 Morning orientation

Learning Objectives

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🧭 During the week, create a post on Slack and get some people to take on the roles of facilitator and timekeeper. Nominate new people each time.

👣 Steps

If you haven’t done so already, choose someone (volunteer or trainee) to be the facilitator for this morning orientation block. Choose another to be the timekeeper.

🎙️ The Facilitator will:

  1. Assemble the entire group (all volunteers & all trainees) in a circle
  2. Briefly welcome everyone with an announcement, like this:

    💬 “Morning everyone, Welcome to CYF {REGION}, this week we are working on {MODULE} {SPRINT} and we’re currently working on {SUMMARISE THE TOPICS OF THE WEEK}”

  3. Ask any newcomers to introduce themselves to the group, and welcome them.
  4. Now check: is it the start of a new module? Is it sprint 1? If so, read out the success criteria for the new module.
  5. Next go through the morning day plan only (typically on the curriculum website) - and check the following things:

Facilitator Checklist

  • Check the number of volunteers you have for the morning
  • Check someone is leading each session
  • Describe how any new activities works for the group
  • Decide how best to allocate trainees and volunteers for a given block - most blocks will make this clear

⏰ The Timekeeper will:

  • Announce the start of an activity and how long it will take (check everyone is listening)
  • Manage any whole class timers that are used in an activity
  • Give people a 10-minute wrap-up warning before the end of an activity
  • Announce the end of an activity and what happens next

🧰 Workshop Activity

Learning Objectives

This space is for a workshop activity of your choosing. In order for this to actually happen, you must organise it ahead of time.

👷🏿‍♀️ No lectures

Code Your Future workshops are designed to be interactive. Developed by volunteers and trainees, they are not about listening to a lecture. They are about doing, discussing, and learning together.

💪🏾 No spoonfeeding

Workshops are also not tutorials, where you follow along step-by-step. CYF workshops are meant to expose gaps and mistakes in your understanding, so mentors can help you fix them. This means you should expect to be challenged and to make mistakes. This is the main value of mentor-led workshops.

👂🏿 Responding to needs

You can run a workshop in person on class days, or online in the week. Mentors volunteer to run workshops on Slack, and learners propose topics they need help with. There are a huge number of workshops available at workshops.codeyourfuture.io/.

Organise a workshop on Slack

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🗂️ Options

Touch Typing [PD]
Git CLI [Tech]

Git CLI [Tech] 🔗

💡 Purpose

Currently, you’re using the 🎮 VSCode interface to interact with Git. However, we can often use different interfaces to carry out the same tasks.

In this workshop, you will use the Git CLI - Command Line Interface to interact with Git. In addition, you will:

  • Consolidate existing knowledge of Git
  • Develop your mental model of the working tree and the staging area
  • Learn to use basic Git CLI commands

📝 Learning objectives

During this session, with the Git CLI, you will:

🧰 Setup

Work in pairs:

  • Assign one person to be driver (the driver will control the keyboard and do the typing)
  • Assign another person to be navigator (the navigator will read out the questions and explain how to tackle the problems).

The driver must ensure they have a clone of this repo on their local machine.

📜 Instructions

Follow the link to the readmes for further instructions:

Head to the Starting point for more instructions

Collective Job Hunting [PD]

Collective Job Hunting [PD] 🔗

Collective Job Hunting 💼

Our goal in this workshop is to look for jobs together as a community. By working together, we can motivate and support each other in our collective goal of finding new jobs in tech. In this workshop, we will focus on the following objectives:

Learning Objectives

Set up ⚙️

  • Split up into groups of no more than 5

Job hunting 🔍

  • Set a whole class timer for 25 mins ⏱️
  • Split the group up into teams of no more than 5 people
  1. Find the Collective Job Research form.
  2. Each team should select no more than 3 different platforms to use based on the first tab of the Collective Job Research form. Each team should use a different set of platforms than the other team.
  3. Search for jobs using appropriate keywords and filters.
  4. Identify a suitable job role that you want to apply for.
  5. Find the job opening advertised on the company website if possible.
  6. Identify key company information in the job advert.
  7. Add the link and information about the vacancy to the Collective Job Research spreadsheet.

Community Lunch

Every Saturday we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.

This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.

Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

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Afternoon Break

Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.

If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.

Study Group

Learning Objectives

What are we doing now?

You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.

Use this time wisely

You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:

  • work through the coursework
  • ask questions and get unblocked
  • give and receive code review
  • work on your portfolio
  • develop your own projects

Retro: Start / Stop / Continue

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A retro is a chance to reflect. You can do this on a FigJam (make sure someone makes a copy of the template before you start) or on sticky notes on a wall.

  1. Set a timer for 5 minutes. There’s one on the FigJam too.
  2. Write down as many things as you can think of that you’d like to start, stop, and continue doing next sprint.
  3. Write one point per note and keep it short.
  4. When the timer goes off, one person should set a timer for 1 minute and group the notes into themes.
  5. Next, set a timer for 2 minutes and all vote on the most important themes by adding a dot or a +1 to the note.
  6. Finally, set a timer for 8 minutes and all discuss the top three themes.