Monday, April 1, 2013
Chapter 10
Chapter 10
Lower level - Understanding:
Explain the difference between individual and collective self-efficacy.
Higher-Level (create): The book gives examples of what can happen when teachers have high self-efficacy. What do you think some of the consequences would be if teachers didn't have high self-efficacy? Come up with a short story that represents these negative consequences.
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Lower: Individual self-efficacy describes the belief that "I" have in my ability to do something. While collective self-efficacy describes the belief "we" have in our ability to accomplish a task together.
ReplyDeleteHigher: Mr. Rasmussen is a a high school physics teacher, who loves the subject and his students. Mr. Rasmussen's only concern is the upcoming unit on electromagnetism. He never successfully understood the material in college and he just feels he will not be able to relay the information correctly. He tries desperately to avoid the topic in his lesson planning, but when he saw that the state standards required teaching it, he realized he needed alternative. He opted for a cheap video that he found in the school library. He put the video in, and allowed the TV personality to explain electoomagnetism. After the video Mr. Rasmussen tried, failing miserably in his attempt, to direct the discussion toward the next topic. Instead, Miss Samuels, straight A student asks him to clarify something from the video. Mr. Rasmussen bumbles through his explanation, not only confusing Miss Samuels but the rest of class as well.
All this could have been avoided if Mr. Rasmussen had had a higher self-efficacy in this regard. He would have been more open to the idea that it was going to take much work to understand this concept, and then even further work to prepare it for his students. Instead, his fear led him to use materials that he did not understand which confused the students even more.
Erin, I actually had fun with your higher order thinking question. Both of your questions were spot on. Good job!