My Philosophy Of Self Efficacy

Another way to build student motivation and engagement is to give them real world problems to solve. By doing this, natural conflict arises, and students have to work together in order to resolve the conflict and continue developing a solution to the problem. When this happens, students learn so much about the problem they are trying to solve, but they also learn skills that will help them become successful in life.

Self-efficacy can be described as the level self-confidence that a person has when they try to do something. It is important in making a behavioral change because people need to envision themselves succeeding.

The U.S. Department of Education provides supplemental funding to local school districts to meet the needs of at-risk and low-income students. This funding is known as Title 1 funding and the schools that receive a portion of this funding are referred to as Title 1 schools. Teachers in Title 1 schools encounter students facing life struggles that many of us cannot imagine. Encouraging these students to focus in school can be difficult, but it is essential to overcome the challenge in order for students to achieve academically. Finding ways to engage Title 1 students can be a daunting task due to the fact that they face daily struggles just to survive. However, teachers must use student motivation techniques to engage these students. These techniques will assist in the students’ success in the classroom. “In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education” (Hidden Curriculum, 2014).

Mr. Evans even cites the use of instilling self efficacy in students. He mentions famous psychologists like Albert Bandura.(p33) Bandura was a very important psychologist who defined self efficacy as a persons belief in his or her ability to succeed in a particular situation. Mr. Evans says that teachers should lead by example, if the teacher is motivated and loves the material being taught, then the students will engage in the material with the same

"To create student engagement, the teacher must succeed in managing both discipline and instruction. If kids are goofing off, you won't get much engagement."

Current research on young adolescent student motivation shows that the teacher must; make the lesson connect to the outside world as much as possible, let the students decide where they sit or what project to work on, guide the student rather than tell them the way, and be someone the student can trust and depend on. Teachers must motivate their students to become better and more engaged within the classroom by using techniques that allow the student to develop their own sense of motivation.

There are many concepts to self-efficacy. To be self-efficient means that one is able and willing to do things for oneself. It’s having a belief that you can accomplish your goals. To believe in yourself and your abilities is very important because by believing in yourself you make it much easier to reach and complete any task you set your mind to. You will motivate yourself to get the job done therefore, you will reach your academic goals. This will become very important when talking about education and the interaction in a classroom. When referring to the influence of high and low self-efficacy on influence learning, having high levels of self-efficacy will always bring positive outcomes to the student. The student will always try it’s best to

Self-efficacy is one’s belief in their ability to complete a task. While it may seem simple, it is an essential element

Engagement within the classroom is vital because it is directly associated with reading achievement (Ivey & Johnston, 2013). Engagement within the classroom proves to be most effective when it emphasizes interest, enjoyment, and enthusiasm (Parsons et al, 2014). As stated by Skinner and Pitzer (2012), “engagement is a robust predictor of students’ learning, grades, achievement test scores, retention, and graduation” (p.21). Engagement is the only way for students to be academically successful, and learn continuously (2012).

In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education. Student engagement is not one variable but six and may be discussed in schools as intellectual engagement, emotional engagement, behavioral engagement, physical engagement, social engagement, and cultural engagement ( Hidden Curriculum). To get students engaged intellectually teachers should create lessons, assignments, and projects that appeal to students interests or simulate curiosity ( Hidden Curriculum). Providing students with academic choices in the classroom is another

Engagement – the fact of being involved with something – (Cambridge dictionary online) is a vague term; it is poorly defined and it is difficult to measure. Student engagement is more than not skipping class, or to pay attention to a lesson; it requires dedication, and feeling of sense. Acting without feeling engaged is just involvement, without being really committed. A student who is not participating but quiet may be as disengaged as the one who is talking or the student who didn’t attend a class (Trowley, 2010). An engaged student is the one who is curious, intrigued, and constantly seems thrilled by a new challenge. Researchers categorized the different types of engagement into three categories that will be explained in the next few points

Teaching the students self-efficacy they will be capable of performing a task or managing a situation. Some student with high self-efficacy believes they can reach their goals, but some student’s may set unrealistic goals, and experience failure and frustration.

Cognitive engagement is noted through student/teacher discourse within the classroom (Parsons, Malloy, Parsons, & Burrowbridge, 2015; Cleary & Zimmerman, 2012). Behavioral engagement is easily observed from students postures and eye contact on the speaker (Fisher, Frey, & Quaglia, 2018). In order for students to achieve, it is important for students to be engaged both cognitively and behaviorally (Ivey & Johnston, 2013). Students who are engaged both behaviorally and cognitively are proven to be more successful academically (Guthrie & Wigfield,

Through defining self-efficacy it involve a person’s judgment about being able to complete particular task on their own and informs the belief of a student’s idea in saying “I can” or “I cannot” (net). There is always a confusion in between the two terms of self-esteem and self-efficacy, the differences between these two is when self-esteem is how an individual feel about their worth or value and self-efficacy is the confidence of an individual’s performance within specific class activities (net). In order to understand if a student has a low sense of self-efficacy towards class activities is determined through their avoidance of their interaction towards an assigned task, whereas with high self-efficacy students they are more likely to engage

Social cognitive theory explains how everything plays a role in the way that we think. Everything including the roles other people play in our lives. Often I think that the impact the people around us have on our lives in undermined. The book refers to it as the social part of the cognitive theory. I think there is really a social part to everything. We are social beings and are forever intertwined and effected by the social aspects around us. In the podcast about encouraging self-efficacy, the author explains how teacher self-efficacy directly relates to student success. That is a prime example proving that there is a social aspect to cognitive ability. She states that self-efficacy is contagious. Believing in your abilities to be successful is directly related to your students success if you are a teacher. Your abilities and goals should involve your students.