Self-efficacy and collective-efficacy can greatly impact the environment of a school. Both of which I see present in my school district. The principal in my building is a prime example of self-efficacy. As an administrator he does not look to target the “bad” kids and put the label on their back that ultimately dictates their overall behavior. Instead, he looks for the positive and tries to build a relationship with the students that tend to have behavioral issues so that the students get the feeling that they belong and that they can play a positive role in the classroom. My principal uses effective behaviors and actions to attempt to gain a positive outcome from the students. On the other end of the spectrum there are a couple teachers in the hallway that I work down that basically shun students from their classroom so that they do not have to deal with their actions and act like nothing is wrong. The teacher across the hall from me generally knows a student will be late for class because his locker is down a separate hallway. The teacher will close her door and lock it and tell the student that he needs to go to the office to get a tardy pass, that are only used at the beginning of school, so that he will be another 5-10 minutes late for class. So now that the student is late, he now has to be even more late, disrupt the class, and makes the secretary have to fill out a tardy slip. When I think of collective efficacy I think of our 7thgrade team. I have sat in on a few of their team meetings and the collaboration and positive goal setting for the grade level and individual students shows their will power and desire to leave an impact on the students’ lives. The opposite of this is the 6thgrade team. This is the team that I take part the most in and the teachers that are involved skip the meetings or always have plans right after school so that they cannot be present for the meeting (even though they are “required” to be there 30 minutes after the students leave). I can tell how not working as a team has a negative impact on the students because the teachers do not have a common goal to achieve the needs for many of the students. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180621/7312cdaf/attachment.html >
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