Foster teacher agency through low-risk, high-reward opportunities with escalating responsibility¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The project reports fostering teacher agency by "repeatedly creating multiple, low-risk high-reward opportunities where educators' perspectives matter", with messaging that participants are working toward a shared future together and failure carries no penalty. Implementation escalated from micro-lesson implementations, to teachers presenting their work, to about twenty teachers designing much more complex project-based lessons incorporating computational thinking, heritage, and storytelling.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Repeated opportunities where educators' perspectives matter
• Messaging that emphasizes shared ownership of the future vision

Constraints¶

• The article describes this strategy in one rural K-8 partnership context and reports no controlled evaluation of it

Target Learners¶

• K-8 teachers in Eastern Kentucky

Target Learning Goals¶

• Teacher agency and willingness to implement computational thinking lessons

Affordances¶

• Civic Imagination Framework Rural Ct

Related Strategies¶

• Use peer-led, project-based professional development led by teachers in similar contexts
• Listen to the Voices of Students
• Autonomy-supportive ESP teaching strategies to foster motivation

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Drawing on Kinship: Rurally Sustaining Computational Thinking Pathways. (2022). Presentation, Learning Design Wiki extraction. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/