Pre-teaching_Practice.md

Pre-Teaching Practice

CAREFULLY READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE STARTING THESE EXERCISES!

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You will be practicing pre-teaching yourself some content based on actual lessons you will be working with at Turing. There are a few things to understand about pre-teaching:

• Pre-teaching is not designed to make you an expert about a topic before you learn it
• Pre-teaching will allow you to dedicate more focus in your lessons to areas that are unclear or confusing
• Taking some basic notes prior to a lesson will allow you to focus more on the content and less on "keeping up"
• Writing questions you have ahead of time will ensure that any areas of confusion are addressed in class

For this exercise, you will be pre-teaching yourself the first technical lesson you'll receive at Turing!

• BE: Variables, Methods and Return Values
• FE: Data Types, Variables, Conditionals

Your Task

• Acquire a notebook to take hand written notes in
• Setup a Table of Contents in your notebook
• Add photo of your Table of Contents in the Deliverables section
• Read through the lesson and take some notes in your notebook
• Add a picture of one page of your notes in the Deliverables section
• Write down 3-5 questions you have about the content in the lesson or questions related to the content and add to the Deliverables section
• Identify 1-2 resources OUTSIDE OF TURING that you can use to clarify any of the content in the lesson and add to the Deliverables section

A few tips for taking notes ahead of time:

• You don't need to write down every single word from the lesson - try to get down the main points in an outline form, key phrases/explanations, etc. This process will take time to figure out!
• Give yourself enough room to add notes later during class - you'll often need space to add context, create visuals, and make connections to other content during a lesson
• Consider using different colors to help organize your notes or highlight syntax

Deliverables

Add a photo of your Table of Contents below

Add a photo of one page of your notes below

Write 3-5 questions you have after pre-reading this lesson here

Add links to 1-2 resources from OUTSIDE OF TURING that relate to this lesson