What is it about?
In these last few years, many studies have been published on the topic of Teacher Agency. This publication describes how teachers can recognise and improve their own agency, through using their psychological resources of self-efficacy, self-regulation and self-determination.
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Why is it important?
Teacher agency is considered an important determinant in improving educational practice and in promoting others' learning. Since teacher behaviour is understood to be the single most important school variable influencing learners’ outcomes, the development of teacher agency is critically important.
Perspectives
Many teachers, headteachers and policy makers have long understood teaching as a set of 'key teaching skills' developed through an apprenticeship of emulating the work of experienced teachers. This paper adds to a now growing, and alternative, view of teaching which argues that teachers' own thinking is critically important in understanding what they 'do' in classrooms.
Professor Effie Maclellan
University of Strathclyde
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This page is a summary of: Agents pedagogical: Bootstrapping reflexive practice through the psychological resources of self-agency, Journal of Pedagogy / Pedagogický casopis, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/jped-2016-0012.
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