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Self Efficacy

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I recently found a sufficient scholarly source that strongly relates to my school’s mission and the topic of Teaching and Learning. The article “Self-Efficacy: A Key to Improving the Motivation of Struggling Learners,” by Howard Margolis and Patrick McCabe, talks about the idea of teachers being in charge of reinforcing self-confidence in struggling students in order to increase the probability of a student becoming successful through persistance and motivation. Margolis and McCabe talk about the benefits of systemic instruction, which involves the teachers organizing their students taks from easy to difficult and explains step by step instruction of what they need to do, and provides the students with feedback and guided practice. Margolis

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