Fostering Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Students

This book demonstrates how teaching staff in HEIs can foster students'' self-efficacy beliefs to promote excellence and enable their students to sustain effective learning. Combining theory with tangible methods for everyday use, it gives the reader the core tools and methods to use in their own practical teaching.>

List of contents

1. The Teaching Environment in Higher Education
2. Whole Students
3. Modes of Communication and their Influence on Self-Efficacy
4. Embedding the Foundations of Self-Efficacy in the Classroom
5. Developing Mastery Experiences
6. Self-Efficacy in Practice: Outcomes and Attainments
7. Implications for Life-Long Connections with Learning and Teaching.

About the author

Laura Ritchie teaches at the University of Chichester, UK. She is the Coordinator of both the Instrumental / Vocal Teaching and the MA in Advanced Performance Programmes.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Ritchie, Ritchie Laura
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137463777
• ISBN: 978-1-137-46377-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Palgrave Teaching and Learning; Teaching and Learning; Palgrave Teaching and Learning; Teaching and Learning
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; B, History, higher education, Teaching skills and techniques, Higher education, tertiary education, STUDY AIDS / Study & Test-Taking Skills, Study and learning skills: general, communication;higher education;learning;methods;teaching, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, communication; higher education; learning; methods; teaching