- I taught the initial Baseline trial for WDI14 in London - June 2015
- It was being written as I was teaching it
- When we started the cohort, we didn't have units 1, 3 & 4
- There was a weekly retro with LA
- A new contractor taught Baseline for WDI15
- Gerry, Mike and I then taught the Baseline on a double cohort - WDI16
- We were excited because it was our first double cohort in London
- Our intention was to teach the same lessons in both classes...
- ...We quickly realised that the two classes were very different
- We realised that we needed to increase the curriculum flexibility
- Inspite of that, we taught 98% the same classes?
- Changing this is a key goal for us in London
- The old Rails-strong curriculum that had a lot of similar content/syntax
- Weaker students had more time to consolidate knowledge
- Baseline had JS, Sinatra, Rails, Node and Angular
- Students didn't appreciate the similarity between Sinatra & Express
- Rails "in the middle" was hard for the struggling students
- So... Mike's first solo cohort WDI we decided to change things around
- We decided to teach Node & REST after Unit 1 JS
- We decided to do less Rails and more Sinatra
- Really build Sinatra up to resemble a Rails stack
- A success
- Students were much more confident with Express
- Some students even did Project 3 TDD?!
- Potentially, the course became a bit DRY?
- My current cohort WDI16, we have decided to add Rails back in for fun but to do more Sinatra
- Starting project on Thursday evening
- Let's have a look at the Trello
- Adding more lessons than necessary
- Adding a selection of lessons per Trello card
- More time for 1-and-1 and feedback
- Project marking scheme is still a bit irrelevant
- Stack of project 3 is a bit strange
- GA Textbook?
- Our interests vs the students
- Our campus superpower is that we reflect a lot
- We're good at changing our curriculum and evolving
- We talk about our cohorts and students a lot
