| Subject: Posting #4-Chapter 5- ( The Self Esteem and Success in School section) |
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LaFrance Hunt
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Date Posted: 17:01:48 02/10/08 Sun
It was interesting to read the piece on Self Esteem and its link to success in school. The text suggests that self esteem is only moderately correlated to school performance and high self esteem does not produce better school performance. Interestingly enough, I learned, at one of the sessions (Risk and Resiliency: What You Can Do in Your Schools) for the conference that I attended (National Association for School Psychology), that self esteem is related to competence (academic, behavioral, social, and emotional competence) and student performance. The presenters suggested that those students who have low self esteem usually have a lower sense of competence; academically, behaviorally, socially, and emotionally. Consequently, these students do poorer in school and usually act out in the classroom. They proposed that in order to build students’ competence and counteract negative factors in the environment, educators and those who work with students should seek to build the students resiliency (capacity to recover from adverse circumstances) and esteem through increasing pro social bonding, providing caring and support, setting and communicating high expectations, providing opportunities for meaningful participation, and setting clear consistent boundaries. Therefore, contrary to what the text suggests, improving a students’ self esteem increases the students’ competence (academically) therefore increasing the students’ performance at school (academically and behaviorally).
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