[Ous-lp-rp13] EDAD 6020, Response to Question #3

[Samantha Howell]

Dusti,

I think that your experience at the school you were at is interesting. I
think self-efficacy is a very important factor for teachers and especially
administrators to have. It takes motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic
factors to make teachers and administrators successful. If an administrator
is not instrinsically motivated, then the staff is not going to be
motivated. I hope that when you go to a different school, you will have a
better experience. It is sad that there are a lot of teachers that do not
have this type of motivation. Then as educators, we expect our students to
be motivated. With collective efficacy, it is so important for staff and
administrators to work as a team and collaborate together. When you are in
a building that does not have collective efficacy, I feel like there is not
a community of learners and everyone just feel separated. Thank you for
your response.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Dusti Chapman <dchapman91 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> EDAD 6020, Answer to Question #3
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> Question:
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> *In what manner do self-efficacy and collective efficacy exist and not
> exist in your school. Please explain the basis of your response.*
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> Self-efficacy caught my eye first so I would like to start there. I felt
> like there were only a few teachers who were strongly motivated and goal
> driven individuals. Not a lot of efforts were shown, but there were a few
> that really stood out to me who went above and beyond. These few were
> leaders (to many anyways) who had the abilities to organize and execute
> course of actions needed. Sadly, the principal did not seem to have high
> self-efficacy nor did she seem to care about the future of levels of
> performance. However, the vice principal was wonderful and full of
> self-efficacy. I fully believe if she was the principal the school would be
> highly motivated. In the end, self-efficacy was seen in the minority.
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> Which leads me to collective efficacy. Collective efficacy did not exist
> as a whole in the school, hence the name collective. The minority, I do
> believe, held the belief that their efforts impacted the effects on
> students. However, it needs to be everyone pushing this vision. In order to
> reach success, the faculty has to come together. Turmoil only hinders this
> goal. As I have mentioned in other previous posts, the faculty meetings
> were heated debates and never meetings of motivation and coming together.
> The few teachers that had motivated, efforts and efficacy are holding the
> school together. There may not be a lot of hope, but there is a little. I
> strongly believe those teachers will not give up.
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