WHAT ARE THE WAYS TO BUILD YOUR STUDENTS’ CONFIDENCE?

PRISCILLA C. CABUQUIT, Ed.D.

While planning for our lessons ensure positive results in teaching. It is also appropriate to consider our learners in planning for our lessons. The success of instruction is manifested through the learners’response.

One of the ways to achieve such by making our learners active participants in the teaching –learning process. Our instruction is made more meaningful once we involve the learners. To do this, we stand by developing their confidence.

Calling your learners by their first names makes them feel they belong and gives them a sense of importance inside the classroom, thereby enticing them to take part actively in classroom activities. The knowledge that you know them personally boosts their self-esteem that encourages them to be engaged in performing their roles.

Entrusting your learners even with a simple tasks of collecting papers, keeping the lines straight, distributing books and the like, instill in them the trust you are giving them, reinforcing responsibility that may be innate in them but only needs to be tapped. When students fell you trust them, the tendency is for them to maintain that the trust and take the guts to do better every time he is assigned to accomplish certain tasks.

There are still other strategies which may be employed by teachers, some of which may be even better than those mentioned, but there will never be a best one for we are faced with learners who are unique in their own ways. What is important is to know our learners so as to provide activities suited to their interests and needs and this will promote maximum pupil participation that comes from their developed self confidence.

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The author is Principal III of Sto. Domingo Integrated School, Angeles City