A student’s experience of succeeding in tasks is the most important source of self-efficacy beliefs. Think about how you can structure your teaching to provide students with clear expectations for their learning and regular feedback and support as they work towards these expectations. Once students experience an improvement in performance or an achievement, feelings of efficacy are enhanced, which enable students to tackle further learning challenges. Students learn that their efforts improve their performance.
Peer modelling is more effective than teacher modelling, especially as some students may doubt they can ever attain the teacher’s level of competence. However, choose your models carefully. The best peer models are those that make errors at first and express doubt about their self-efficacy (“I’m not sure I can do this”).