Arm students with the confidence they need to pursue ambitious goals—together.
Collective student efficacy— students’ beliefs that by working with other people, they will learn more—can be a powerful accelerator of student learning and a precursor to future employment success.
Harnessing twenty-five years of VISIBLE LEARNING® research, Collective Student Efficacy: Developing Independent and Inter-Dependent Learners illuminates the power of collective efficacy and identifies the many ways teachers can activate collective efficacy with their students. More than cooperative and collaborative learning, collective efficacy requires the refinement of both individual and collective tasks that build on each other over time. This innovative book details how knowledge, skills, and dispositions entangle to create collective and individual beliefs, and leads educators to mobilize collective efficacy in the classroom. It includes:
The time is now to prepare students to meet the demands of the future. Through collective student efficacy, students will learn to become actionable agents of learning and change.
Table of Content
Introduction: Why Collective Efficacy?
Chapter 1: The Value of the Collective
Chapter 2: Why Focus on Collective Student Efficacy?
Chapter 3: Developing the ‘I’ Skills
Chapter 4: Developing the ‘We’ Skills
Chapter 5: The Learning Design of the Lesson
Chapter 6: Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Collective Student Efficacy
Chapter 7: Learning in Pairs or Groups
Chapter 8: Assessment of Collective Student Efficacy
Chapter 9: The Possibility of Collective Student Efficacy
About the author
SHIRLEY CLARKE (M.ED., HON.DOC) is a world expert in formative assessment, specializing in the practical application of its principles. Many thousands of teachers have worked with Shirley or read her books and, through them, the practice of formative assessment is continually evolving, developing and helping to transform students’ achievements.Shirley’s latest publications are Visible Learning Feedback with John Hattie and Thinking Classrooms with Katherine Muncaster Her website www.shirleyclarke-education.org contains a videostreaming platform of clips of formative assessment in action as well as detailed feedback from her action research teams.