The facilitating environment factor encompasses a larger departmental climate for teaching but is highly dependent on the supervisor and peer interactions.
A facilitating environment for the transfer of GTA PD is one in which the department provides GTA PD, supports new teaching ideas generated by the GTAs, and provides resources to implement ideas learned during GTA PD (Notarianni-Girard, 1999).
In psychological theory, the "good enough mother" (or parent) creates a "facilitating" environment for her child, meeting all of the child's needs in the beginning and then gradually allowing greater autonomy, still within secure boundaries.
Four percent of the variance in facilitating environment was directly accounted for by hours of PD in teaching.
Because a facilitating environment is also important to transfer of GTA PD, hours spent in PD is also predicted to impact the perception of a facilitating environment for GTA teaching.
The strongest predictor of teaching self-efficacy was quality of GTA PD and facilitating environment (β = 0.22 for both pathways).
Facilitating environment was also the strongest predictor for quality of GTA PD (β = 0.22).
These were then conceptually mined for their characteristics to develop a model of mentoring that included the initiating environments, facilitating environments, operational strategies and outcomes.
The departmental facilitating environment provides support for the GTAs to put their PD into effect in the classroom, encouraging the GTAs to utilize the skills they learned in PD.
For the purposes of this project, mobilizing capacity for reverse innovation was viewed with the intent of facilitating an environment, for future and current health system leaders, to engage in meaningful, constructive dialogue surrounding the potential for reverse innovation within the Canadian health system.
Although little effort has been made to link the effect of a facilitating environment to teaching self-efficacy for GTAs, similar items do predict teaching self-efficacy in K 12 teachers (Tobin et al., 2006).
