Confidence is a sense of knowing you can prevail over a challenge or a struggle. One develops this sense of knowing (one's confidence) by having positive experiences of overcoming challenge, difficulty, and struggle. One becomes confident as one connects effort to mastery. Confidence is a mindset.
How does a child develop confidence at various ages?
What is a parent's role in challenge and confidence?
What is a teacher's role in challenge and confidence?
Are our assessments effective in creating confidence, efficacy, and learning motivation?
How can school best be structured and design to offer a variety of challenge learning?
Pitfalls to avoid:
Criticism, which is different from guidance
Cynicism
Overprotection and rescuing
Lack of feedback and reflection
Confidence builders:
an awareness of strengths, personality, and other self-knowledge
ability to analyze a situation and develop a sense of where to start
knowing how to learn and develop, deliberative practice
honest support of a community
praise of effort and process
willingness and ability to see mistakes as necessary part of learning process
Some related reading:
Psychological Resilience
Positive Psychology
Maslow and Esteem
Self-Efficacy
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