Self-Efficacy

How do you affect the children you teach? What do students at all levels learn about themselves from their teachers? Do you inspire and build self-esteem? Teaching, like psychotherapy, should help people find their inner strength! Psychologist Albert Bandura said it this way:

"Educational practices should be gauged not only by the skills and knowledge they impart for present use but also by what they do to children's beliefs about their capabilities, which affects how they approach the future. Students who develop a strong sense of self-efficacy are well equipped to educate themselves when they have to rely on their own initiative."

Albert Bandura