33: Lessons Learned from CS Professional Development with McKay Perkins | #CSK8 Podcast

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In this interview with McKay Perkins, we discuss what McKay has learned over the years providing elementary CS/coding professional development, considerations for creating within constraints, teaching a sustainable way for integrating CS/coding in elementary schools, the importance of adapting PD to continuous feedback, advice for becoming a professional development facilitator, and much more.

Guest Bio
McKay Perkins is dedicated to developing creative instruction to make education come alive for elementary learners. He believes that when teachers devote time and energy to insert education into a child’s imagination, it unlocks the student’s potential, and willingness to pursue it. He has five years of elementary teaching experience and has loved every minute of it.

McKay left the full-time teacher role to receive a Master’s degree in Instructional Design at Brigham Young University, where he wanted to learn how to improve the learning experience for elementary children. He found coding. Since then, McKay has worked for three years teaching elementary students, elementary teachers, and elementary education students how to code and how to integrate technology in ways that transform their classrooms. He has led professional development sessions on coding and he understands students’ desire to learn this exciting medium. He also understands many of the stressors that teachers face, and has had practice helping to alleviate them.

McKay is married to Kristen, and has a baby boy named Henry. A few of the things he enjoys are: technology, games and game development, stories and storytelling, family time, Star Wars, music, video editing, barbershop singing, classroom design and setup, and coding. He believes that all of these hobbies and activities can be creatively used to enrich and enliven instruction.

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00:00 Intro
00:56 McKay introducing himself
01:33 How McKay got into CS education
05:15 Something McKay no longer believes after his experiences in education
10:01 What does an ideal PD experience look like?
15:58 Creativity within constraints
18:05 Situating interdisciplinary connections
21:25 How McKay's experiences in PD have informed his own approach
26:15 How instructional design informed McKay's approach
31:55 Advice for learning how to facilitate PD
38:21 Something attendees might not be aware during PD that McKay focuses on
41:46 How McKay practices or iterates on his abilities
43:59 How McKay tries to prevent burnout
46:52 Why don't we assess whether or not kids have fun?
47:46 Tips for online teaching and learning
49:16 What McKay wishes there was more research on
52:32 How I could better assist the CS community with this podcast
54:02 How to connect with McKay
54:20 Outro

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