CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR S.C. TEACHER CADET COURSE | EXPERIENCING EDUCATION, TENTH EDITION
Theme I: Experiencing Learning
Unit 1: Awareness and Reflection
Test on Self-Esteem
Use your own paper.
1. Many people believe they will either fail or succeed before they even begin something.
This is referred to as "self-fulfilling prophecy." Describe the thought processes that a
person might use if he already believes he is going to fail, in trying to learn how to do one
of the following:
a) hit a baseball
b) factor an algebraic equation
c) give an oral report
2. Explain Virginia Satir's meaning of "pot." Include in your explanation the possible
consequences of "low-pot.”
3. How can teachers use children’s literature to enhance the self-concepts of their students?
4. “It is a personal tragedy and a social waste when a student spends year after year
experiencing defeat and failure in school." Dr. William Purkey's prescription for dealing with
this tragedy is to make schools more inviting. He speaks of such disinviting practices as
fierce competition, expulsions, failure, competitive evaluations, scorn, ability grouping, and
corporal punishment. List at least five strategies or policies that parents, teachers,
students, and administrators can use to make their schools more “inviting” and thus more
uplifting to students’ self-concepts.
5. Discuss ways in which schools and teachers might avoid the traps of fraudulent self-esteem
and “global self-esteem.”
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