Combat stereotypes about computer science and computer scientists. This shows students that, regardless of their personality or other hobbies outside of CS, they could become computer scientists too!
Teach students (even young kids) the 20/20/20 rule: every 20 minutes, students should focus their eyes on an object 20 feet away for 20 seconds to protect their vision and create healthy habits.
Have a prepared response for questions you don’t know the answer to, that way students don’t perceive their teachers as the only, or an infallible, source of knowledge.
Create environments for beginning students where the prospect of making a mistake is not intimidating. That way, they’re less likely to get discouraged.
Give students, especially younger kids, “movement breaks” so that they don’t have to sit still and stare at a computer for too long.
When learning in a playful context, students are less likely to be frustrated by difficulty or failure.
Have some students pretend to be robots while other students program them to complete simple tasks to practice debugging and to emphasize the importance of coding precisely.
To integrate CS with other disciplines, have students write algorithms for activities they’re already doing for other classes.
Use examples that have nothing to do with computers to introduce new CS concepts in an accessible way.