Bitesize Research: Collective Teacher Efficacy

This week, I wanted to share with you some of Hattie’s work. Many of you will be familiar with Hattie’s work, but in summary, Hattie has led a project entitled ‘Visible Learning’ which strives to use meta-analyses to determine the strands of T&L with the largest effective sizes on student attainment and progress.

Objectives: To understand the T&L strategies that have the highest impact on student attainment and progress.

Summary:  

• Whilst much of Hattie’s work has centred around feedback, the ‘new number one’ with the largest effective size is termed ‘Collective Teacher Efficacy’ (CTE).

• CTE is broadly:

• A collective belief of a school’s staff that they can positively impact students

• A collective belief of a school’s staff that they should set appropriately high challenging expectations for all students

• Crucially, this belief needs to be continuously underpinned by the evidence of the impact that the school’s staff are making

How does this impact me and my practice?: Some reflection questions arising from this that might be helpful to consider are: 

 

• How do I develop this belief with those I work with?

• How do I regularly demonstrate or role model my own belief in this?

• What challenges my ability to have this belief?

• What kinds of evidence can I be using to support the fact that what I am doing is making an impact?

If anyone would like to discuss this further with Jaya - please comment below! I’d be delighted to open up these discussions and conversations.