Educational Psychology / Unit 1 EDP 0016 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Fuller's Stages of Concern
The idea
Fuller's concerns theory, built from interviews with student teachers, holds that teachers move through three stages of concern. First comes survival, or self: will the students like me, and can I control the class? Then task: materials, time and the delivery of lessons. Last comes impact: each learner's achievement, social and emotional needs, and whether learning transfers beyond the lesson. A teacher can return to an earlier stage when moving to a new grade, subject or school.
In practice
Worked example: a teacher says, "I spend every evening building worksheets and I never finish the unit on time." That is a task concern.
Where people slip
Task and impact concerns can sound alike. A teacher worried about covering the material is at task; one worried whether a struggling student has understood it is at impact. The stages are not exclusive, and a veteran who changes schools may worry about survival again.
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