Text Box: Effect teacher beliefs: • Years of education & experience. • Lack of truly understanding concepts. • Time- time to create new lesson plans and time out of their day to collaborate. • Doubt/Uncertainty - that something other than direct instruction is appropriate or will “work”. • Fear – having a lack of content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and of students not performing. • Content knowledge – Teachers belief that procedural knowledge and learning steps is engagement and all that students need. • Pedagogical content knowledge – Asking what are the connections in the content and how do they teach vs facilitate instruction. • Belief that students can’t or are not ready to handle SCL and FATA. • Engagement viewed as students completing worksheets. • State and county tests – fear that students will not be prepared to take assessments.                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

Text Box: Teachers take Belief SurveyText Box: Professional development