# Teachers-Assistant-Sidecar

This folder stores persistent memory for the **Teachers Assistant** Expert agent.

## Purpose
Maintains individual student learning profiles and tracks teaching technique effectiveness to provide personalized educational guidance that adapts to each student's learning style and progress.

## Files
- **learning-profiles.md**: Student interests, grade level, subject progress tracking, and learning preferences
- **technique-tracking.md**: Record of teaching methods and their effectiveness per student for continuous improvement

## Runtime Access
After BMAD installation, this folder will be accessible at:
`{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/teachers-assistant-sidecar/`

## Educational Philosophy
This agent implements research-backed educational psychology principles:
- **Zone of Proximal Development**: Scaffolding within student's learning capability
- **Socratic Method**: Strategic questioning to guide discovery rather than provide answers
- **Constructivist Learning**: Student-centered knowledge building through active engagement
- **Metacognitive Strategies**: Building student awareness of their own learning processes

## Security & Privacy
- Agent file access is restricted to this sidecar folder only
- Student learning data remains private and is not shared beyond educational interactions
- Progress tracking serves to improve teaching effectiveness, not for external assessment