Collective Teacher Efficacy

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High level of collective teacher efficacy and teacher commitment can increase teaching effectiveness. An outcome of collective efficacy is the concept of collective responsibility (Angelle, Nixon, Norton, & Niles, 2011). Collective responsibility is a collegial accountability where teachers share obligations for both teacher and student learning (Angelle, et al., 2011). Teachers’ high level collective efficacy increases their capacity to carry out instructional functions beyond standards. Teachers who collectively exchange teaching strategies, help each other in solving both teacher and student conflicts, supports each other in acquiring and applying new knowledge on teaching, share common practice to attain school goals and aim, and share …show more content…

Transformational leadership does not directly influence teaching effectiveness. The effect of transformational leadership on teaching effectiveness is seen only when there is a motivational boost experience by the teachers, such as increased collective teacher efficacy and teacher …show more content…

Formative decisions use the teacher performance to improve and shape the quality of teaching. Summative decisions use the evidence to “sum up” our overall performance or status to decide about our annual merit pay, promotion, and tenure. The former involves decisions to improve teaching and the latter consists of personnel decisions. In the teaching and learning context, the result of the study can help change the situations in the school institution. This study shows that leaders should be transformational to be autonomy supportive. In the university, the department chairperson and the dean need to find out how to motivate teachers intrinsically. Listening to teachers need serves as an important action to understand how to motivate them. The leaders of a school institution must know and understand the teacher’s interest, enjoyment, values and beliefs to find out how to elevate their performance inside the classroom. Teachers who enjoy teaching because they are given the choice for a specific pedagogy to use and the freedom on how to discipline their students inside the classroom can result to teaching effectiveness. School institutions should strengthen transformational leadership behaviors such as intellectual stimulation, individualized support, good professional practice, and high performance expectation because it

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