Self efficacy!

How do I know that I am a teacher who has self efficacy?

"Bandura tells us that efficacious teachers see difficult tasks as challenges rather than threats, heighten and sustain their efforts in the face of disappointment, attribute failure to insufficient effort, knowledge, or skills, approach threatening situations with confidence, use persuasion rather than authoritarian approaches to classroom management, and direct their efforts to resolving academic problems. Efficacy beliefs influence teacher's efforts, goal setting, persistence, resilience, willingness to try new ideas and strategies, enthusiasm, organisation, planning, fairness and commitment to teach" (Tait, 2008)

Is self-efficacy the same as self-determination and self-regulation?

The words used to describe each trait focus on slightly different aspects.

Conceptually resilience, personal efficacy and emotional intelligence seems similar but each draws on a different language domain.

Future Application:
As a pre-service teacher, what do you need to think, see, say, feel and do in order to maintain your self-efficacy? 

Think- This is the first step on a long journey of learning to teach.

See- Look out for instances of God at work or inspiring moments in class eg Phil 4:8

Say- I am not alone in this I can do it with help. Thess 5:24

Feel- Confident that even my mistakes are opportunities to learn from.

Do- 10 Commandments for Self-efficacy

1. You will gather a supportive network of educators around you. 2. You will watch and learn from good role models 3. You will focus on mastering one small piece of the teaching puzzle at a time. 4. You will look for positive teachers, students and people in the school 5. You will build emotional intelligence by fearing not uncomfortable, awkward situations, for God is ahead, with and behind you. 6. You will persist in prayer when things are hard and wait for God to show the way forward. 7. You will observe a weekly day of rest and recreation with God. 8. You will remember that a teacher is like a gardener tending to the individual needs of each of her plants. 9. You will look for solutions to practical problems online, on social media and twitter. 10. You will continue blogging as a practice of self-reflection as a new teacher.

 The individual’s teacher’s belief that their performance as a teacher has the potential to influence the ultimate level of achievement of performance realised by their students” 

(Wolf, Foster, & Birkenholz, 2007, p. 558)