What Is the #1 Factor Influencing Student Achievement?–Collective Teacher Efficacy! Amazing things happen when a school staff shares the belief that they are able to achieve collective goals and overcome challenges to impact student achievement. Recently, Professor John Hattie ranked collective teacher efficacy as the number
Power from Within Collective teacher efficacy (CTE), the perceptions of teachers in a school that the efforts of the faculty as a whole will have a positive effect on students (Bandura, 1977, 1986, & 1997), has a 1.57 effect size (Eells, 2011, Hattie, 2014). It
Recently the National Education Technology Plan was released by the Department of Education and has outlined many best practices pertaining to innovation. Within the plan, there are five key components that are addressed: learning, teaching, leadership, assessment, and infrastructure. All five of the components are
Reflection is the single most important part of my daily practice as an educator. My blog is the most efficient vehicle for that activity. A year and a half ago, I dragged my feet at the idea of maintaining a blog and actively passed those duties