Personal Narrative: Self-Efficacy Model

At the beginning on the semester, there were three goals that were identified to achieve during our tutoring sessions. The first goal was to help Aiden gain confidence in reading and give him the support he needs. The second goal was for him to be able to identify sight words. The last goal was to work on reading fluency. Looking back at the goals that were placed, I do believe that the goals were realistic. However, I knew that I was not going to be able to complete the goals fully because we did not have enough time together to gain full mastery.
The first goal was to help Aiden gain self-confidence and we know that confidence cannot be given, but you can help build it. To help build Aiden’s self-confidence I used the self-efficacy model. I started with a verbal persuasion, also known as a pep talk, by telling him that it is okay to make mistakes and we even read the book It's Okay to Make Mistakes by Todd Parr. However, for the vicarious experiences he did not get a vicarious
This goal was realistic because over the course of the semester, we used distributive practice with four different list of sight words that Aiden must know by the end of the year. In order to help Aiden, learn the sight words, I started by giving him a “spelling test” using magnetic letters. I then asked Aiden to read the sight words off of the list I had. After that, we created index cards and practiced with them every day. I then found books that specifically used a sight word he was having trouble with throughout the book. I also made a game out of the sight words by creating Go-Fish cards with the sight words on them; we also used the same cards for Matching. My cooperating teacher did testing with Aiden to see the improvements he has been making, the data says that he has gained mastery with the sight words list one, two, and three, but making progress on list four which is what we are currently working