| Example #1: A child waits quietly and attentively until it is her turn to present her project to the class. |
| Example #2: A child finishes working on the teacher’s prompt before switching to free play. |
| Example #3: Two children takes turns recording sounds for the Play Recorded Sound block. |
Teacher Insights on Practicing Patience
The following excerpts were taken from interviews with teachers who were asked to describe instances in which their students practiced patience, as well as times in which the teacher personally practiced patience while implementing the Coding as Another Language-ScratchJr curriculum.
Patience is huge with five-year-olds. Some of the students, after a few lessons, could sign right in, and then they knew how to save their project and how to type their name. Where other kids, we would have to tell them, you need to stop. You’re going too far. We need to make sure everybody’s on the same page, so they definitely showed a lot of patience in that.
— Diane, Kindergarten Teacher
Patience with showing you more than one time, if need be, which I think is unusual for 5 year olds. Or it struck me as unusual that they would demonstrate that amount of patience. For example, how to record one sound and embed that in the code and to be willing to show [it] multiple times if the student didn’t get it the first time. That was nice to see.
— Katelyn, Kindergarten Teacher
Watch Patience in Practice
Patiently Raising a Hand
A child raises his hand and waits until he is called on before sharing with the class.
Waiting Game
A child practices his patience while waiting for his turn to program.
Patience is Key
Children practice patience while debugging their program.
Listening to Everyone’s Contributions
Children wait and listen while each classmate contributes a sentence to a story.