Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Sarah Clark Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 192 ISBN: 9783838399133
Описание
Since the RAND corporation study of more than three decades ago, researchers have continued to demonstrate that a teacher’s sense of efficacy is one of few teacher characteristics related to student achievement. So what helps to build teacher self-efficacy? In recent years, researchers have established that experiences such as student teaching are highly influential in the development of teacher self-efficacy as well as the degree and type of support that student teachers receive. Furthermore, establishing a strong belief in one’s abilities to perform teaching tasks during the preservice teacher stage seems to have more of an impact than waiting until after a teacher is already in the classroom. These findings stress the important role and responsibility that teacher preparation programs play in developing and securing high teacher efficacy at a most influential time. Yet there are still many unanswered questions regarding how teacher preparation programs influence...
