4. Elementos esenciales del seguro.
4.5. Pago de la indemnización.
Appendix A: Demographic Survey
1. What grade level are you currently teaching?
___ K-2 ___ 3-5
2. What is your gender?
___ Female ___ Male
3. What is your highest degree earned?
___BA/BS ___MS/MA ___Specialist ___Doctorate
4. What university provided your teacher preparation training?
_______________________________________________________________________ 5. How many different student teaching opportunities did you have as part of your teacher
preparation training?
6. How many years of teaching experience at the elementary level? ___ years
7. How many years of teaching experience at your current school? ___ years
8. Do you hold any teacher leadership positions at your current school?
___ Yes ___No
If yes, please list below:
Appendix B: Collective Efficacy Scale –Short Form (Goddard & Hoy, 2003) DIRECTIONS:
Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following statements about your school from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Your answers are confidential.
KEY: 6=Strongly Agree 5=Agree 4=Somewhat Agree
3=Somewhat Disagree 2=Disagree 1=Strongly Disagree
Strongly Strongly Disagree Agree 1. Teachers in the school are able to get through to the most difficult students. 1 2 3 4 5 6 2. Teachers here are confident they will be able to motivate their students. 1 2 3 4 5 6 3. If a child doesn’t want to learn teachers here give up. 1 2 3 4 5 6 4. Teachers here don’t have the skills needed to produce meaningful 1 2 3 4 5 6 student learning.
5. Teachers in this school believe that every child can learn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 6. These students come to school ready to learn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Home life provides so many advantages that students here are bound 1 2 3 4 5 6 to learn.
8. Students here just aren’t motivated to learn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 9. Teachers in this school do not have the skills to deal with student 1 2 3 4 5 6 disciplinary problems.
10. The opportunities in this community help ensure that these students 1 2 3 4 5 6 will learn.
11. Learning is more difficult at this school because students are worried 1 2 3 4 5 6 about their safety.
12. Drug and alcohol abuse in the community make learning difficult for 1 2 3 4 5 6 students here.
Appendix C: Teacher Efficacy Scale (Short Form)*
A number of statements about organizations, people, and teaching are presented below. The purpose is to gather information regarding the actual attitudes of educators concerning these statements. There are no correct or incorrect answers. We are interested only in your frank opinions. Your responses will remain confidential.
INSTRUCTIONS: Please indicate your personal opinion about each statement by circling the appropriate response at the right of each statement.
KEY: 1=Strongly Agree 2=Moderately Agree 3=Agree slightly more than disagree 4=Disagree slightly more than agree 5=Moderately Disagree 6=Strongly Disagree
1. The amount a student can learn is primarily related to family background 1 2 3 4 5 6 2. If students aren't disciplined at home, they aren’t likely to accept any 1 2 3 4 5 6 discipline.
3. When I really try, I can get through to most difficult students. 1 2 3 4 5 6 4. A teacher is very limited in what he/she can achieve because a student's 1 2 3 4 5 6 home environment is a large influence on his/her achievement.
5. If parents would do more for their children, I could do more. 1 2 3 4 5 6
6. If a student did not remember information I gave in a previous lesson, 1 2 3 4 5 6 I would know how to increase his/her retention in the next lesson.
7. If a student in my class becomes disruptive and noisy, I feel assured that I 1 2 3 4 5 6 know some techniques to redirect him/her quickly.
8. If one of my students couldn't do a class assignment, I would be able to 1 2 3 4 5 6 accurately assess whether the assignment was at the correct level of difficulty.
9. If I really try hard, I can get through to even the most difficult or 1 2 3 4 5 6 unmotivated students.
10. When it comes right down to it, a teacher really can’t do much because 1 2 3 4 5 6 most of a student’s motivation and performance depends on his or her home
environment.
*In Hoy, W.K. & Woolfolk, A.E. (1993). Teachers' sense of efficacy and the organizational health of schools. The Elementary School Journal 93, 356-372.
Appendix D: Interview Protocol for Teachers
1. If you were to describe your school to someone, how would you describe it? 2. How does collaboration among teachers occur at your school?
Probe: PLCs?
3. What opportunities for teacher leadership are present at your school? Probe: How is teacher leadership encouraged?
4. Describe how teachers participate in decision making at your school. 5. In what ways do you receive instructional feedback from your principal? 6. Describe the support you need as a teacher.
7. In what ways do you support the learning of all students in your classroom? 8. What is your belief of your colleagues’ abilities to support student learning? 9. How do you build relationships with students?
10.How does your school’s culture encourage positive interactions with students? 11.What are your school’s practices that you believe promote student engagement? 12.What are your classroom practices to promote student engagement?
Appendix E: Interview Protocol for School Principal
1. If you were to describe your school to someone, how would you describe it? 2. How does collaboration among teachers occur at your school?
Probe: PLCs?
3. What opportunities for teacher leadership are present at your school? Probe: How is teacher leadership encouraged?
4. Describe how teachers participate in decision making at your school. 5. In what ways do you provide instructional feedback to teachers?
6. How do you believe your leadership practices influence the teachers’ self-efficacy be- liefs?
7. In what ways do your teachers demonstrate collective teacher efficacy (i.e. collective be- liefs in each other’s abilities to support student learning)?
8. How do you believe your leadership practices foster collective efficacy beliefs? 9. How do you build relationships with students?
10.How does your school’s culture encourage positive interactions with students? 11.What are your school’s practices that you believe promote student engagement? 12.What do you observe as classroom practices to promote student engagement?
Appendix F: Classroom Observation Protocol
Time of Observation: Length of Observation:
Date: Teacher Code:
Grade Level: School Code:
Observation Record:
Description of classroom environment:
Description of instructional activities:
Description of teacher’s interactions with students:
Description of student’s interactions with other students:
Description of teacher collaboration or interactions with colleagues:
Appendix G: School and Principal Observation Protocol
Time of Observation: Length of Observation:
Date: School Code:
Observation Record:
Description of school environment:
Description of principal’s interactions with teachers:
Description of principal’s interactions with students:
Description of collaboration among colleagues in the school: