Self Esteem and its effect on learning.

by mcdaddywati (student)

HOW SELF ESTEEM AFFECTS LEARNING

Having low self-esteem can make you underestimate your efforts and potential. You often expect situations to go wrong for you. Improving your self-esteem is not a miracle cure for all aspects of your life that are not as you may want them to be but can dramatically improve the way you view and deal with situations. Higher self esteem can help make you realise that not everything is YOUR fault.

A low self- esteem will effect how you perform in all aspects of life. It will determine how quickly you learn, how much you remember and the motivational drive for study and success.

You need you believe you can succeed or will not achieve your full potential.

If you begin to struggle with your learning, then a moderate self-esteem is needed to encourage you to carry on and not to give up. We all know that any learning environment can be competitive and challenging. The level of self-esteem we have has an impact on the decision to learn something new in the first place.

Self-image is learned so we can be helped to develop positive attitudes to our own learning especially when we are supported in a caring environment.

Language is powerful in assisting building up a persons self esteem or knocking them down, thus balance is important as praising can help boost a low self-esteem but over praise can set someone up for a fall and then in turn low esteem.

Being and feeling that you belong to part of a group, whatever the size can help support you in learning.

Tutors/peers can be encouraging and help people in their learning by allowing them choices as control over what one is doing can raise self-esteem. Subtle, effective phrases that could be said to someone who always hands thing in last minute could be

“ I’m glad you got it done” instead of “ took your time, I never thought I was going to get it”

Use non-judgemental language, be specific, acknowledge what the person is saying and respond appropriately. ...