Inservice Theme: Promoting self-efficacy in the classroom
This unit will guide teachers to reflect on the many ways self-efficacy influences student achievement. The presentation will also provide strategies to build self-efficacy in the classroom.
Pre-Reading activity: Improving self-efficacy and motivation: What to do, what to say (see below, Margoli & McCabe, 2006)
Presentation: PowerPoint
Activities:
Teachers will rate their own self-efficacy on a confidential questionnaire. This has two purposes: to provide the school with a better understanding of the difficulties teachers face in their teaching practice and to help teachers better understand how their own self-efficacy plays a part in classroom achievement. (See below, BanduraGuide, 2006 22.pdf)
Discussion:
Turn to someone next to you and talk about an area in which you experienced low-self efficacy as a child/student. Has anything changed since becoming an adult/teacher?
Find a member of another learning team and discuss one way you are promoting self-efficacy in your classroom. Finally, discuss something you have learned today. How can you personally improve student self-efficacy practices?
Conclusion:
Hand out “You can do it” buttons (see below) to promote self-efficacy in the classroom and ultimately motivate students. (And to help them remember it to their dying day!)
This unit will guide teachers to reflect on the many ways self-efficacy influences student achievement. The presentation will also provide strategies to build self-efficacy in the classroom.
Pre-Reading activity: Improving self-efficacy and motivation: What to do, what to say (see below, Margoli & McCabe, 2006)
Presentation: PowerPoint
Activities:
Teachers will rate their own self-efficacy on a confidential questionnaire. This has two purposes: to provide the school with a better understanding of the difficulties teachers face in their teaching practice and to help teachers better understand how their own self-efficacy plays a part in classroom achievement. (See below, BanduraGuide, 2006 22.pdf)
Discussion:
Turn to someone next to you and talk about an area in which you experienced low-self efficacy as a child/student. Has anything changed since becoming an adult/teacher?
Find a member of another learning team and discuss one way you are promoting self-efficacy in your classroom. Finally, discuss something you have learned today. How can you personally improve student self-efficacy practices?
Conclusion:
Hand out “You can do it” buttons (see below) to promote self-efficacy in the classroom and ultimately motivate students. (And to help them remember it to their dying day!)