Principlescs-coaching-knowledge-base.md

Coaching for Agency

Front: Personal agency refers to "the sense that I am the one who is causing or generating an action." A student with a sense of personal agency perceives himself/herself as the subject influencing his/her own actions and life circumstances. As coaches, we work to build computational agency in teachers, so that they may help students develop agency themselves. This helps prepare teachers and students for full citizenship in the digital age.

Back: During professional development and co-planning, coaches should help teachers build their understanding of the computing they teach beyond that expected by the lesson. This deeper mastery of content builds agency not just in computing, but in teaching, giving teachers confidence to differentiate, formulate multiple explanations to tricky problems, and demonstrate the variety of solutions often possible in CS.

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