Pacing, Where are you at?

Hi all! This is my first year teaching APCSP and I am not sure if I am on pace. My class is currently on Unit 6 L12 and I plan on finishing Unit 6 this week. My goal is to finish the curriculum and create task by April 15th to leave a month of review. What Unit and Lesson is your class on?

Hi @isaac.ishak,

Sounds like you’re making good progress! I clicked “View Calendar” on the recommended pacing guide on the website:

It shows that the lesson you are finishing should fall somewhere around the middle of Week 3 of this unit (based on 225 minutes of instructional time per week / 45 minutes per day for 5 days):

The other units had these recommended times:

  • Unit 1: 3 weeks
  • Unit 2: 2 weeks
  • Unit 3: 2 weeks + 1 day
  • Unit 4: 3 weeks + 1 day
  • Unit 5: 2 weeks

So based on this (admittedly very rough) layout, your target time to hit this content is the middle of week 15. Factoring in Thanksgiving, Christmas/winter break, and other holidays, it sounds to me like you’re making a good pace. When did your school year start? Some states begin mid-August, but others don’t begin until after Labor Day.

Thanks,
–Michael K.

Thank you! I also calculated that Unit 6 is around Week 15. My school started mid August so we are currently in our 19th Week of school, which is why I was concerned

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Gotcha. If it makes you feel any better, teachers in the past have reported that the pacing guides in this curriculum tend to be on the optimistic side.

Unit 7 is given 2 weeks + 1 day, and Unit 8 is given about 3 weeks. Unit 9 is the Create Task prep & Unit 10 is 1 week. Even if you did Unit 10 before Create, that still has you starting the PT well before mid-April if you keep everything else on pace (even factoring in Spring Break).

I hope working backwards through the units to figure out timing helps!

–MK

I am giving my Unit 6 exam today. According to my notes, this is within a couple of days of where I have been for the last couple of years and I usually finish everything by early April.

Note: I do spend A LOT of time on the hack-a-thon, which I modified and use for the create task.

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