Personal, Proxy, and Collective: The Different Ways Creative Agency Develops to Support Teacher Flourishing

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Saturday 11:45 am
  In Poster Session: Teacher Agency, Activism, and Leadership - Div K Section 2

Abstract

Teacher self-efficacy is a critical factor for professional growth and key to teacher agency. Self-efficacy plays a role in a multitude of positive outcomes for both teachers and their students. Similarly, creative self-efficacy in teaching is an important precursor to teachers’ growth in affect, motivation, and practice—for their overall creative agency in teaching. This mixed method study investigates the sources of teachers’ creative self-efficacy and agency development across a collaborative and creative professional development experience and explores the relationships between those sources of creative self-efficacy and key factors of teacher flourishing.

Authors

• Ross C. Anderson, Creative Engagement Lab

• Kendall LaParo, Research for Action

• Gregory Boldt, University of Saskatchewan