This is a re-upload of my Self-efficacy slideshow. I somehow had a blank slide and wanted to fix it.

1. Promoting Self-Efficacy
Jamie Licko
SOE 115 Psychology of Teaching and Learning
Kendall College

2. Self-Efficacy Theory
Self-efficacy, from what I have come to understand is a person’s belief in their
own academic ability and motivation to reach goals. I believe that promoting self-
efficacy in the classroom is important because the students will be confident in
themselves. They will also be more willing to put in the effort they need to reach
their academic goals.
I Chose to research this topic because I want to learn more about how to help
my students have high self-efficacy. I think this can help my students not only in
education but also in life with personal goals they want to achieve.

3. Academic Self-efficacy
“Individuals form their self-efficacy perceptions by interpreting information
from four sources: mastery experience, vicarious experience, social persuasions,
and physiological reactions.” (F. Pajares, 2005) Unless children have belief in their
ability to accomplish a task, they will not have the motivation to try or follow
through when situations become difficult. Self-efficacy is prevalent not only
academically but throughout life as well. “Self-efficacy is also a critical
determinant of the life choices people make and of the courses of action they
pursue.” (F. Pajares, 2005)

4. Self-Efficacy and Success
While self-efficacy and self-esteem sound vary similar, they are not the
same thing. Self-efficacy is the belief in one’s own abilities and Self-esteem is how
one feels about themselves and who they are. “It is natural to want to make
children feel better when they are upset. Our first instinct is often to try to boost
their self-esteem with general words of praise.”(Self-efficacy: Helping children
Believe…, While praising a child to boost their self-esteem is great, we need to
remember that it does not boost self-efficacy. Here the four sources that
contribute to self-efficacy are mentioned, mastery experience, observing others,
Direct persuasion by others and mood.

5. Strategies for student Self-efficacy
According to Haskell (2016) There are many strategies teachers can use
to promote good self efficacy. A few of them are open-ended questioning,
positive reinforcement, increased availability and flip. She goes on later in the
article to state “Our most important job as educators, however, is not to produce
a generation of right answers; it is to produce a generation of confident, eloquent
thinkers who can understand, effectively utilize, and enjoy their individual
learning processes.”
One simple strategy is, availability, students should be able to contact
teachers outside of the classroom Haskell states “Some students may simply
need a bit of extra help to boost their understanding and confidence in the

6. Analysis of information
I feel like I have learned a lot by conducting this research on self-efficacy.
Before I started I did not know much about it. Now I can see how having good
self-efficacy can help educational success. I also learned how it can impact our
daily lives and the tasks we choose to accomplish. Two of the articles I read
talked about what resources help to build self-efficacy. Those resources are,
mastery experience, direct persuasion by others, physiological reactions, and
observing others. The other article gave suggestions for teachers on how to build
self-efficacy in the classroom. I think that in my future classroom I will try the
strategy of the flipped classroom. It stated in the article that this strategy builds
students confidence in finding and gathering information independently.

7. Connections
I had first heard of Self-efficacy when I read about it in my class text, “Educational
psychology” by A, Woolfolk. In the chapters that I read It also talked about some
of the things I found in my research. Two of the most notable where, the
resources that contribute to self-efficacy (I also saw similar figure models
regarding these), and the differences between self-esteem and self-efficacy. I
think that the combination of the reading from the textbook and my further
research has given me a better understanding of self-efficacy and how promoting
it in my classroom can be beneficial to my students.

8. Conclusion
From conducting this research on self-efficacy I now know how important it is to
have high self-efficacy. When reading the articles for my research I could see how my self-
efficacy is low. It can be hard for me to be motivated to do certain tasks and sometimes I
do tend to give up. This is because I sometimes do not feel confident in my abilities or that
I do not have enough skills to complete the task accurately. I would like to do more
research on this topic in the near future so I can make sure I am helping my students build
a healthy confidence in their own skills and abilities. This way they can be as successful as
possible in anything they pursue.

9. ReferencesHaskell, N.(2016) Strategies to improve student self-efficacy and learning
outcomes. Retrieved february 14, 2018, from https://www.pearsoned.com/improve-self-
efficacy-learning-outcomes/
Pajares, Frank (2005) Self-efficacy during childhood and adolescence implications for
teachers and parents. Retrieved february 14, 2028, from
https://sites.education.uky.edu/motivation/files/2013/08/18464-Self-
Efficacy_During_Childhood_and_Adolescence-
Implications_for_Teachers_and_Parents.pdf
Self-Efficacy: Helping Children Believe They can Succeed(november,3). Newspaper of
The National Association of School Psychologists. retrieved february 14, 2018, from
https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/cms/lib3/ga01000373/centricity/domain/31/self-
efficacy_helping_children_believe_they_can_suceed.pdf