I like to share what I have learned about CodeHS with others and being a Teacher Trainer seemed like a good way to do that. I am also hoping to learn from others and improve my teaching as well.

CodeHS is a better platform than any of the others I've used, better than instructional platforms I've used as an engineer. I am excited to share what I've learned!

I wanted to become a CodeHS Teacher Trainer to be able to help the teachers that are new to Computer Science and also CodeHS.

My students and I really enjoy using the CodeHS curriculum. I look forward to sharing something I enjoy using with others. I also like to share how CodeHS can help take the fear out of teaching programming!!

This year I am retiring, and I would love to stay involved in the world of teaching. I wholeheartedly believe that coding is as important as reading and writing and would like to promote the learning and teaching of computer programming.

If an English teacher can learn to teach computer programming, then you can too! CodeHS made the transition easy for me. But more importantly, CodeHS helps me to motivate students and open their eyes to careers that they never dreamed of.

I created the computer science courses at my school because there was a need for it and the students really wanted to learn it. CodeHS has been vital to my classes and I want to inspire any teacher who is thinking about doing something similar.

I have a big interest in helping people and being a CS professional, I see the need for more people to become involved with CS. As such, we need more teachers who can teach computer science and I felt that becoming a CodeHS Teacher Trainer would help with this.

I have been extremely happy with the support that I have received from CodeHS ever since I started using them 3 years ago. Account Managers that respond right away, KarelCon, visiting my school to lead Hour of Code sessions, etc. I want to reciprocate that support, but also share these experiences with other teachers. My students have thrived while using CodeHS, and I want other students in other schools to have that same opportunity and experience.

When I logged into CodeHS for the first time I had seasoned classroom management skills & well honed instructional design skills, along with years of playing on Scratch, but didn’t know how to write a function that wasn’t part of a set of blocks. It has been an incredible journey, and has turned out to be great fun for both me and my students. I became a CodeHS Teacher Trainer so I can share strategies for teaching CS on the CodeHS platform, enabling skillful teachers to create coding communities and share the fun of coding with their students.

I’ve been a tremendous fan of CodeHS since I stumbled across the VR curriculum in December 2018. Last summer I became a CodeHS Certified Educator, so becoming a Teacher Trainer seems like the perfect next step. I love giving professional development and this program gives me the opportunity to expand my repertoire and work closely with a company that I’ve come to respect and love.

CodeHS is the best curriculum out there for students and teachers. We have a huge growing field and a gap in teachers who know the content. Many CS teachers are learning the content with their students! CodeHS makes learning for teachers and students easy and fun!

I would like to share my experiences with CodeHS (7 years and counting) so that more teachers will be excited to teach CS even if they don't feel that confident in their coding skill. I started teaching AP Java without ever having written a line of Java code.

Becoming a CodeHS trainer has always been a hidden passion of mine. I enjoy showing teachers and volunteers how powerful the codeHS platform is. I enjoy sharing with other teachers my enthusiasm for teaching culturally responsive lessons that engage the Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American students.

My students love a challenge and like using Computer Science to solve societal problems. My students won state finalist in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest using problem solving skills. CodeHS helps to develop the problem solving skills needed for my students to compete on a national level.

We are Navajo-Diné, loud and proud Native American from Chinle Arizona, Wildcat Country. Students are all on remote learning with laptops issued from the district. Student also have hotspots and slowly progressing through this tough year. We’re trying to get more students interested in coding and programming.

A very meaningful event from our class is when we go to neighboring middle schools and my CS scholars teach CS lessons to those scholars during the Hour of Code week. This event allows them the chance to take ownership of what they have learned in our class. During this event, I have the luxury of seeing my scholars transform into mentors and motivators as they help to pique the interest of the next generation of high school CS scholars.

My classroom is organized chaos! Through various funding sources, including a generous local education foundation, I have secured a variety of kits and resources for my students so they can explore and create. For my computer science students, I have Android tablets, numerous small robots (ittyBitty bots, mBots, cyber:bots), Arduinos, Raspberry Pi, and micro:bits. My students enjoy being able to see these items in action as they explore computer science.

I have taught myself everything about coding simply by working through the courses on CodeHS. Anytime I meet with other CS teachers in Wisconsin, I also tell them about CodeHS and how great it is to introduce students to coding, even if you don't know anything about computer science. Being a CodeHS Teacher Trainer seems like a perfect way for me to share the awesomeness of CodeHS with other in order to ultimately get more students into CS!

I believe in the CodeHS curriculum. It is great for both the students and the teacher. It is flexible enough to appeal to many different learning styles. I believe everyone should learn to code and CodeHS is the best path to that goal.

As an educational leader and curriculum developer, I'm a lifetime learner always looking for something new to learn and to teach. While I love working with students, I'd like to 'pay it forward' by helping other CS teachers master their craft by sharing my successes (and failures!) as I've grown as a CS teaching professional. I've done summer school teaching for over 20 years and now I'd enjoy using at least part of my summers to mentor other teachers with materials I've developed over the last 20 plus years.

I wanted to become a CodeHS Teacher Trainer because I want to "pay it forward." I had a great mentor who really helped me when I first started teaching computer science and would love to be a resource for teachers new to this field. I truly love teaching computer science and want to make sure that other teachers can see how much fun they (and their students) can have with this material too!

I wanted to become a CodeHS Teacher Trainer because I believe receiving quality PD is so important and having a teacher to bounce ideas off of is an invaluable resource. I want to be the support system I wish I had when I began teaching Computer Science since there are no other Computer Science teachers at my school.

I wanted to be a CodeHS Teacher Trainer to network, learn about other parts of CodeHS for my classroom, and most of all...teach others about technology.

I believe CodeHS is an excellent platform and I enjoy promoting it, I also have a strong desire to help teachers who teach CS, knowing how difficult it can be, ultimately I know this will impact students in a positive way, which is my ultimate goal.

I want to continue strengthening my knowledge about coding and the different languages, I hope to gain a cohort of colleagues that I can learn from and network with, and I want to learn about the different ways teachers are using direct instruction and project based learning in conjunction with CodeHS.

I wanted to become a CodeHS Teacher Trainer so I can help other teachers use this fantastic tool to get more students excited about computer science.

I can speak firsthand of the positive impact CodeHS has had on my classroom and students. I am a confident teacher having used their curriculums for both AP computer science courses, and the hands-on coding practice my students obtain through the CodeHS platform is absolutely vital to their academic success. I hope to share my enthusiasm, expertise, and ideas with colleagues considering or adopting the CodeHS platform.

I wanted to be a teacher trainer because I think computer programming is an essential skill for the modern world and CodeHS makes it possible for anyone to teach it at their school without a Computer Science degree. When my students ask me why I did not get a computer science degree, I tell them that if I had they would not be my students because I would be making a lot more money writing code!

My experience with CodeHS has greatly helped me and I’d love to pass on my experience and help to other teachers.

I started using CodeHS two years ago. My students have enjoyed the new material and I plan to utilize even more of it during the 2020–2021 school year

Computer programming is not something that came easy for me. I want help teachers learn more about computer programming and computer science. I want to make sure every student and teacher can succeed in computer science.

I'd like to support other teachers in teaching Computer Science. I appreciate the functionality, content and responsiveness of CodeHS and want to share that with others.

Believe it or not my favorite thing about CodeHS is the ability to make my own lessons and units. Last year when this tool came out, it was a game changer for me. This flexibility allowed me to pick and use what I wanted, whether it was content for CodeHS courses or own content, it was now possible to have it all in one place. Since I work at a Bilingual school, it was really important that I could make all of my instructions in other languages. And now that I can make my own autograders this recently has become another game changer for me to give my students my own custom feedback. I also love how everything is organized and the students enjoy this as well. I can go on and on about the platform but I will stop for now.

I first used CodeHS to learn Java so that I could prepare for the state Computer Science exam which I am happy to report that I passed on my first attempt. Having no prior experience with pseudocode or Java, CodeHS really helped me understand how to read this code and be able to write some of my own code. I was interested in becoming a CodeHS teacher trainer so that I could share what I learned to help other teachers prepare for their Computer Science exam or to incorporate the CodeHS program in their classroom.

"I want to share with you how Codehs allowed me to offer additional coursework for students who want to learn more than what the school currently offers. The fall of 2019 was the first year we ran APCS-A and the students covered the whole gamut of student types. One third of the class were honor students who wanted the “grade bump up”, a third were students who loved programming and had done some coding on their own, and a third were students who I had taught the year before in Computer Science 1. We had football players, swimmers, lacrosse players, volleyball players, and nerds. One day I put the students in teams to solve a programming problem and I noticed that a shy girl was on a team with 3 football players. I noticed that the boys would argue a lot about different approaches and the girl would wait and offer answers quietly. As time was running out the football captain yelled - “everyone shut-up she knows what she’s doing let her talk”. We all looked over and saw this group of football players sitting quietly while the quiet sophomore implemented and explained the answer. I received an email from this shy girl's mom asking how she could continue her computer science studies after APCS-A? I offered to teach her daughter APCS-principles as an independent study student. The principal approved the independent study because I could show that the student would use an effective, accessible curriculum. In 2020/2021 I had two independent study students. This year I have 4 independent study students. Codehs provided our school with a totally accessible environment which allows our students to expand their knowledge in areas that are interesting to them. These students are the drivers in building our Karelers+ community. This year the computer science students are assisting with middle school student recruitment, organizing and running our Hour of Code effort, entering computer science competitions and setting up our Karel.the.dog tick tock account. We have ordered a Karel costume that will be worn when we do our “Kareling” before the holidays. Yes I have many other success stories to tell but this one shows how the use of Codehs not only provides students with knowledge and confidence but provides an expanded pathway for studying computer science in high school. My next challenge is to convince the administration to offer more computer science courses. Wish me luck! "My three favorite tools are : collaborate, docs and the autograder. I use collaborate to gamify team competitions within the classroom. My favorite tool is the autograder. When the students complain that it’s too picky I explain the complexity of how the tool works - and we laugh. Docs - creates independent students and eliminates some of their fear of coding.

When - My first year of teaching CS What - Developing/Finding practice problems How - CodeHS helping me very much my first year teaching. I was able to obtain all the resources I needed for all the courses I was teaching all in one place. It can be overwhelming trying to find CS content on the internet. CodeHS simplifies that process. Python Turtle Graphics is my favorite part about CodeHS. Turtle graphics on other platforms is messy and can be complicated for a new CS student. CodeHS simplifies this and makes Tracy a great intro to python for many new CS students.

Since students are given free reign over their design process on special projects, they often have questions as why their code is "not working". I encourage them to utilize the Docs tab or the textbook (if available). Just today, a student was creating a balloon game where darts were going to burst the balloons. The dart (his mouse) was disappearing behind the balloon. I suggested that he refer back to an earlier exercise we had completed. There, he found his answer. "CodeHS has streamlined a ton of meaningful curriculum into one place. Students can work anywhere with an internet signal. So whether virtual or in person, students can progress with their studies. I like the fact that students can work at their own pace and even enroll in other courses that they are interested in. I am huge fan of Fast Grade. It makes grading so much easier and faster. I am still learning all that is in the CodeHS dashboard, even after 4 years. The Assessments section is full of quizzes, midterms and final exams. Knowledge Base is a great place to find resources from other teachers."

I wanted to become a CodeHS Teacher Trainer to help teachers who are nervous about teaching Computer Science. I was in that same boat just a short time ago, and I wanted to let them know that they can do it! I will help them.

I am ever so grateful to CodeHS for helping me teach Python, Javascript (Karel), HTML & CSS, Cyber Security, and MicroBit lessons.