The Confidence Pyramid
This is the most stable component of confidence.
What is self-esteem?
As discussed in class, and according to the Stuntz & Weiss, 2010 reading, these are the four factors that predict motivation and confidence.
What are competence, autonomy, relatedness/relationships, and enjoyment?
In early childhood, we take this at face value.
What is feedback?
We tend to choose to participate in activities that we have this attitude toward.
What is valuing?
This is the least stable component of confidence.
What is self-efficacy?
This acronym helps us to remember some of the strategies we can use to increase motivation and confidence in physical activity settings.
What is TARGET?
This is one of the largest factors impacting the development of our perceptions in a physical activity setting during middle childhood.
What is peer comparison?
If a child has poor soccer skills, and has low self-efficacy for soccer, they may begin to exhibit this attitude toward soccer.
What is devaluing?
These are the four main domains of our perceptions.
What are scholastic/academic, physical (appearance), athletic, and social?
Team challenges, using student names, and switching up groups often are all examples of how we can increase this in our classes.
What are relationships?
We begin to see significant changes in how we develop our perceptions around this age.
What is 8 years old?
Our ability beliefs, otherwise referred to as perceptions, predict how much we value an activity as well as this.
What is our expectation of success?
This component of our confidence can be impacted by societal and cultural standards and expectations.
What is self-esteem?
When we provide multiple options for equipment use, number of skill repetitions, distance from a target, and speed or accuracy, we promote this aspect of skill development.
What is mastery?
In middle childhood, we form self-perceptions with internal information. Internal information consist of these three components.
What are ease of learning, effort, and skill improvement?
According to the model, this is the outcome when we think we will do well at an activity and we value that activity.
What is choosing to participate?