Category : Towards Collective Teacher Efficacy

With a new way of looking at how we teach, one that is evidence-based and embedded in student learning progress, teacher communities are positioned to make powerful and informed decisions about teaching pedagogy. In Part 1 of our series, Towards collective teacher efficacy, we considered the construct of building relational trust as fundamental to any success in achieving sustained and improved student learning outcomes. Whilst researching for the article, Without relational trust, innovation is lost, it became abundantly clear that without genuine trust, and the commitment and collaboration that it fosters amongst leaders and teachers alike, [...]

Trust is key. Relational trust. The professional respect that it fosters enables colleagues to question, and be questioned, and it is this questioning, and the reflection that it stimulates, which drives teacher development and improved student learning outcomes. Effective education no longer happens in isolation, whether you find yourself in the classroom, or in leadership. Working alone, and without the input of colleagues, results in our impact being significantly diminished. There is an old saying, ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’, and when you sit this beside another, ‘two heads are better than one’ then we [...]