In practice, weak observed relationships might impede
the efficacy of teacher policies.
Not exact matches
However, were districts to adopt
policies that allowed administrators to dismiss
teachers according to their effectiveness rather than their seniority, they could lay off fewer
teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and increase the overall
efficacy of their teaching force.
They enact
teacher evaluation and turnaround
policies whose
efficacy and impact rest entirely on the ability
of officials to execute them competently and aggressively in the face
of contracts, embedded routines, and recalcitrant cultures.
Thomas Kelley - Kemple, a PIER Fellow and second year doctoral student in the education
policy program at the GSE, said that he thought Loeb's lecture brought a new dimension to the discussion
of teacher efficacy.
While
teachers do not have a monopoly on educational wisdom, their first - hand perspective gives them a unique and critical vantage point from which to assess the
efficacy of educational
policy decisions.
The conditions making the greatest positive contribution to the principals «sense
of efficacy were, in order, a District - wide focus on student achievement and instruction, Job - embedded professional development for
teachers, Investment in both school - and district - level instructional leadership, and District personnel
policies.
Disseminate seminal research on the
efficacy and impact
of the
teacher residency model, thereby informing
teacher preparation practices and
policies nationwide
Enactments positively associated with principal
efficacy include district requirements for improved goal setting; the establishment
of detailed school - improvement plans; requirements that community people participate in formulating school - improvement plans; clear articulation
of expectations for student outcomes, derived from state
policy; support for collaboration between high schools and middle schools; support for
teachers engaged in using new instructional programs.
Teachers rated their self -
efficacy in handling bullying situations and the extent
of anti-bullying classroom
policies.
It is unclear, however, whether protective features
of the school environment such as anti-bullying classroom
policies and
teacher's perceived self -
efficacy in handling bullying situations can mitigate these negative outcomes.
Using a genetically informed design based on twins, this study examined the potential moderating role
of classroom anti-bullying
policies and
teachers» perceived self -
efficacy in handling bullying situations in regard to the additive and interactive effects
of peer victimization and genetic vulnerability on anxiety symptoms.