"Principles and Practices for
Building Academic Self-Efficacy in
Middle Grades Language Arts
Classrooms"
Authors:
Authors:
Erin McTigue and Jeffrey Lieu
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APA Citation (taken from WSCU Library Website):
McTigue, E., & Liew, J. (2011). Principles and Practices for Building Academic Self-Efficacy in Middle Grades Language Arts Classrooms. Clearing House, 84(3), 114. doi:10.1080/00098655.2010.543191
Summary:
This is a short, but interesting article about promotion both self-efficacy AND self-esteem within quality instruction in the middle school language arts classroom. It briefly describes a multitude of reasons for why middle school students generally struggle with both, and the majority of the article focuses on what the teacher can do to positively affect and promote progressive changes in self-efficacy and/or self-esteem in order for students to be more successful in the language arts classroom. There are six major focuses that the article identifies as things that within the teacher's control in order to promote self-efficacy (the primary focus of the article):
I am really fond of this particular article for two reasons: the first is that it primarily focuses on WHAT teachers can actively (and seamlessly) do within their regular classrooms to promote self-efficacy and increased internal motivation of students; secondly, the article boasts a wide variety of references in which I am able to continue and further my research.
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APA Citation (taken from WSCU Library Website):
McTigue, E., & Liew, J. (2011). Principles and Practices for Building Academic Self-Efficacy in Middle Grades Language Arts Classrooms. Clearing House, 84(3), 114. doi:10.1080/00098655.2010.543191
Summary:
This is a short, but interesting article about promotion both self-efficacy AND self-esteem within quality instruction in the middle school language arts classroom. It briefly describes a multitude of reasons for why middle school students generally struggle with both, and the majority of the article focuses on what the teacher can do to positively affect and promote progressive changes in self-efficacy and/or self-esteem in order for students to be more successful in the language arts classroom. There are six major focuses that the article identifies as things that within the teacher's control in order to promote self-efficacy (the primary focus of the article):
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Creating a safe and democratic classroom environ-
ment
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Integrating social and emotional learning into literacy
assignments
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Monitoring and assessing students’ academic self-
efficacy
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Modeling self-efficacy within academic learning
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Providing effective feedback
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Facilitating self-evaluation and goal-setting
This is a great article for not only middle school, but also for high school and elementary. The strategies listed pertain to all levels of learners and all ages involved. It’s wonderful that these key points can be integrated into the classroom ‘seamlessly,” as you stated. Have you been able to use some of these strategies? I teach Fourth grade and I periodically have my students do self-evaluations and goal setting. It’s amazing what a Fourth grader will say about themselves and the goals (attainable) they want to meet. I hope these strategies are working in your middle school class; some of them have been very effective in Fourth!
ReplyDeleteI like how approachable this article is. It is easily read and applied to the classroom. I am making a copy of this to share with our staff.
ReplyDeleteI am looking for a second posting for January but do not see one. Please let me know when you have posted it.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this article and I happened to come across this during a week there I was substitute teaching reading intervention in a middle school class. I found many of the strategies very approachable and relatively easy to implement. Thanks for posts some really great stuff.
ReplyDeleteIncreasing internal motivation is something I am constantly striving to do in my classroom. This article was helpful to me in understanding how I can foster that in my students. I am hoping to teach them how to teach themselves, and how to be motivated by the process of learning.
ReplyDeleteMy only suggestion is to change the font size to be a bit larger to make it easier to read on the computer screen.
I like the suggestion to change the font size...I am too old for fonts that small!!! the information sounds really interesting and I plan to read the entire article based on all of the comments - your included.
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