Vacca, Vacca, and Mraz (2011) states that a high level of self-efficacy in content literacy situations is exhibited in confident learners, and vice versa. Science is one subject that I have always struggled with personally, and I cannot ever remember feeling confident when it came to learning something of a scientific nature. Looking back, I do believe that it negatively effected my motivation to succeed in science. I took the required two science classes in high school to satisfy graduation requirements but did not pursue any further science instruction beyond that.
Reading and writing were two subjects that I had a fairly high level of self-efficacy. I was very motivated in those subjects and wanted to succeed. They're also the two subjects I most enjoy teaching. I love teaching children how to read and write. In kindergarten, most of them go from children who can maybe write their name, read a word or two, and hopefully know several letters and sounds, and by the end of their year of kindergarten, they're writing sentences and reading books. I love guiding them through that progress and watch that growth.
My daughter loves reading. She's six years old; we homeschool. Her and I sit together most days, and we each read our own books. It's fun now that we're at the point where we can talk to each other a bit about what we are reading independently.
References
Vacca, R.T., Vacca, J. L. & Mraz, M. (2011). Content area reading: literacy and learning across
the curriculum. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
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