Teaching High School Students with CourseKata
We combine an online interactive textbook with in-class instruction ideas and projects to result in learning that sticks for students — all designed for teachers with a range of experience.
Students read the textbook for homework and then class time is used for active learning — an opportunity take a deep dive into real data sets. This is designed to help students practice connections, make knowledge coherent, and transfer understanding to new situations.
What’s It Like to Teach with CourseKata?
CourseKata offers teachers an interactive online textbook, a growing library of in-class materials, comprehensive instruction support, and access to real-world research and data about how to teach hard subjects. In addition, CourseKata integrates with top LMS platforms and includes:
- Fully-integrated Jupyter notebooks for in-class activities, assessments, and student projects
- R coding exercises with real-world meaning
- Embedded questions (more than 1,200) and immediate access to student answers
- A teacher dashboard to show student activity and progress
Watch the Data Science 4 Everyone video linked below to see a teacher with CourseKata training use CourseKata materials to teach a class through Khan Lab School.
For In-Person or Virtual Instruction
CourseKata was designed for a teaching model where students work through the textbook for homework, and then convene with their teacher — either face-to-face or virtually— to discuss key concepts and new data analysis examples in class. Teachers are supported with all the materials they need to do this successfully.
- Online Interactive Textbook: Students grapple with the material themselves and bring their questions and understanding to class.
- In class: With the help of teachers, students become active participants in learning, engaging in discussions, exploring hypotheses they are interested in, collaborating and investigating data sets with peers, all while teachers model best practices in questioning and analysis. In-class assignments are organized in Jupyter notebooks — a tool used by data scientists in the real world.
- Projects: These are designed to practice what students have learned, and they can even serve as performance-based assessments for teachers to gauge understanding and knowledge transfer.
Is CourseKata for High School Right for Your Class?
CourseKata Statistics & Data Science is for all students — it can be used as a 4th-year statistics course curriculum, be the basis for a two-year data science pathway, or provide the curriculum for a dual-enrollment college-level course.
This curriculum is aligned to Common Core Math Statistics and Probability State Standards.
We’ve created three versions of the Statistics & Data Science online textbook to suit your needs.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand data
- Explore variation
- Model variation
- Evaluate models
- And more
Topic Alignment
CourseKata covers many traditional statistics topics, including those related to:
- Probability
- Research methods
- Descriptive statistics
- Inferential statistics and sampling distributions
- And more
Ready to try out CourseKata?
Gain access to a library of resources, such as syllabi and in-class materials shared by other educators, that will help you imagine what it’s like to use CourseKata in your classroom.