SELF-EFFICACY IN ACTION
Consider these questions for further reflection.
How do you model self-efficacy?
Which is easier to teach students: self-efficacy or self-esteem?
How will you instruct students to believe they can make desired changes?
What ways students can practice self-efficacy on their own throughout the school year that ensures reflection?
CLOSING AND FOLLOW-UP
Lesson Summary
In this lesson, you had the opportunity to:
- Learn that self-efficacy differs from self-esteem and confidence because it is a belief in ability that involves undertaking a course of action.
- Examine how self-efficacy consists of the belief that ability can grow through effort and the belief in one’s own ability to accomplish specific expectations.
- Find out that self-efficacy can be enhanced by observing others performing similar tasks and thinking “I could do that, too” as well as positive feedback and positive self talk.
- Reflect on how self-efficacy builds on success and can be taught through modeling, video examples, efforts rubrics, framing, and other strategies.
Next Steps
- Think about what you can do in the next week, the next month, and for the remainder of the school year to help your students become self-regulated learners.
- Using what you have learned in this learning package, meet with your colleagues to discuss some ideas for teaching self-regulation.