Teachers Who Thrive: Navigating the Self-Efficacy Career Journey

To thrive in the current educational landscape, teachers must grow their self-efficacy. This book provides a travel guide for teachers to develop their self-efficacy through self-reflection, feedback, collaboration, inclusion, and student relationships. By completing two inventories, readers can personalize their journey and create a Thriving Teacher Profile. All teachers deserve a long and rewarding career, and this book can help them achieve that goal.

Format: Hardback
Length: 198 pages
Publication date: 10 August 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Thriving is the continual growth and flourishing of an individual or a group. In the context of education, thriving is a challenging task, especially in the current educational landscape. Teachers are facing unprecedented demands and expected to do more with less. While some teachers manage to thrive throughout their teaching careers, others succumb to the ever-changing pressures of the job, experiencing symptoms of burnout in as little as five years. The key to understanding why some teachers succeed while others struggle lies in teacher self-efficacy.

Teacher self-efficacy refers to a teacher's belief in their ability to effectively manage their teaching responsibilities and achieve desired outcomes. It encompasses four domains: instruction, engagement, classroom community, and self-care efficacy. Teachers with high levels of self-efficacy believe in their ability to plan and deliver effective lessons, engage students in meaningful learning experiences, create a positive and supportive classroom environment, and take care of their own physical and emotional well-being.

To help teachers grow their self-efficacy and thrive in their careers, this book serves as a travel guide. It provides insights and strategies for developing self-efficacy in each of the four domains, as well as the Five Thrive Factors that contribute to self-efficacy development. These factors include self-reflection, feedback, collaboration, inclusion, and student relationships.

Thriving teachers access all of these factors but the way they employ these factors evolves as they gain experience. They learn how refining their focus on students and expanding their influence can fuel their self-efficacy development. Readers will personalize their journey by completing two inventories that will provide a Thriving Teacher Profile describing their affinities and skills related to the factors and domains described in the book.

All teachers deserve a long and rewarding career, and Teachers Who Thrive can help us all realize this goal that is more important than ever. By understanding the importance of teacher self-efficacy and implementing the strategies outlined in this book, teachers can build their confidence, reduce stress, and ultimately achieve greater success in their teaching careers.

Weight: 431g
Dimension: 231 x 160 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475860801