Enabling Professional Growth and Identity of High School CS Teachers through One-on-One CoachingK12
This program is tentative and subject to change.
We designed a one-year coaching program to provide U.S. high school CS teachers with the ongoing support to help shape their identity as CS teachers. Our research question for this project was: rqone Adopting a mixed-methods approach, our study leveraged pre- and post-program surveys and introspective self-reflection checklists to triangulate data from both coaches and coachees. Coachees’ rated their professional growth and identity significantly higher after the intervention compared to before, and this difference indicated a large effect. Both before and after intervention, coachees indicated they identified partially as CS teachers, and this sense of identity grew after intervention. The success of this pilot demonstrates how engaging teachers in coaching can motivate their interest in teaching CS. Professional development providers and regional agencies can replicate and adapt these processes to empower new CS educators across their networks.