<div dir="ltr"><div>Ian,</div><div><br></div><div>It is amazing to me how students’ self-efficacy can be increased by the manner in which teachers and other adults interact with them. In your first paragraph, you discussed how your principal and some of your colleagues react differently to “bad” students. When the principal shows he believes in them, the students are likely to have increased self-efficacy and, as a result, their behaviors will improve. On the other hand, when some teachers react poorly toward those students, the students’ self-efficacy is lowered, and it is likely that the negative behavior will persist. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>In my class, one particular student clearly displayed this phenomenon. When I had the student as a freshman, he was suspended for using profanity toward me; as one may imagine, as a young student teacher, I did not show the student that I cared for him at all upon his return. As a result, he repeatedly kept his head down in class and refused to complete any assignments. I reinforced his low self-efficacy, and his low performance in my classroom was a result of it. The following year, my first year in my own classroom, I had the same student as a sophomore. After investigating his home situation, my empathy for him grew, and we were able to build a positive relationship. One week, I offered him the reward of a free drink from the “Cavalier Cafe” if he made it to my class all five days without skipping (a rarity for this student). Throughout the week, I verbally encouraged him, as did his peers. As Friday neared, I could see his self-efficacy increasing, simply because he had the support of those around him. I am thankful that I was able to see past this student’s previous behavior and realize that, as an adult, I can truly impact the self-efficacy of students around me. </div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Ian Snyder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isnyder@minfordfalcons.net" target="_blank">isnyder@minfordfalcons.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Self-efficacy and collective-efficacy can greatly impact the environment of a school. Both of which I see present in my school district.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> The principal in my building is a prime example of self-efficacy. As an administrator he does not look to target the “bad” kids and put the label on their back that ultimately dictates their overall behavior. Instead, he looks for the positive and tries to build a relationship with the students that tend to have behavioral issues so that the students get the feeling that they belong and that they can play a positive role in the classroom. My principal uses effective behaviors and actions to attempt to gain a positive outcome from the students. On the other end of the spectrum there are a couple teachers in the hallway that I work down that basically shun students from their classroom so that they do not have to deal with their actions and act like nothing is wrong. The teacher across the hall from me generally knows a student will be late for class because his locker is down a separate hallway. The teacher will close her door and lock it and tell the student that he needs to go to the office to get a tardy pass, that are only used at the beginning of school, so that he will be another 5-10 minutes late for class. So now that the student is late, he now has to be even more late, disrupt the class, and makes the secretary have to fill out a tardy slip.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> When I think of collective efficacy I think of our 7<sup>th</sup>grade team. I have sat in on a few of their team meetings and the collaboration and positive goal setting for the grade level and individual students shows their will power and desire to leave an impact on the students’ lives. The opposite of this is the 6<sup>th</sup>grade team. This is the team that I take part the most in and the teachers that are involved skip the meetings or always have plans right after school so that they cannot be present for the meeting (even though they are “required” to be there 30 minutes after the students leave). I can tell how not working as a team has a negative impact on the students because the teachers do not have a common goal to achieve the needs for many of the students.<span></span></p></div>
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