The impact of EAR on building my teacher confidence in the classroom by Elyanora Menglieva

How can I be more confident in my lessons

2025-03-14 13:51:49 UTC

I chose this topic because during the practicum I felt that I did not have enough confidence and enough belief to teach pupils freely and also I thought through every sentence and every instruction before I started to speak. I also felt that my pupils were always looking at me and analyzing me. This made me worried.

For these reasons, I chose this topic for my EAR project.

My name is Abdulboqiyeva O'g'iloy.

2025-03-22 08:20:29 UTC

Institution: Namangan state institute of foreign languages

Group: MBX-AU-22

Level: 3rd year

My research questions

2025-03-22 08:47:32 UTC

Why do I think that I don't have enough confidence?
How do my colleagues feel about my confidence level in the classroom and the way I teach?
When do I demonstrate the sign of low confidence during the lesson? ( based on micro-teaching session)
What can help me to teach more confidently?

2025-03-22 08:50:44 UTC

Self-reflection notes
Questionnaire after micro-teaching
Observation by the experienced teacher

Survey results

2025-03-22 09:00:32 UTC

During this research, I found that having enough confidence in the classroom is mostly related to the experience of teaching, methods, language skills, and also preparation for the lesson.

After micro-teaching, I did a survey with my students, and below you can see the results:

How did I feel during the lesson?
54 % Good
44 % Not bad
11 % Another option
Do you think that I do not have enough confidence in the lesson?
45 % lower confidence in some task
30 % confident enough
5 % not confident enough
20 % another option
what can help me to be more confident?
45 % More practice in public speaking
22 % more trying in front of the mirror
22 % doing research related to this problem
11 % talking with more people

2025-03-22 09:10:49 UTC

To develop my confidence level, I worked with other teachers and listened to their suggestions. Also, I did more public speaking activities to boost my confidence.

I worked on how to give short and understandable instructions, and I also observed other teachers' lessons.

My teaching context

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-24 22:40:28 UTC

In my practicum, I taught at school number 27 in Namangan region, Uzbekistan.

I taught to the pupils of the 5th grade.

Overall, there were 14 pupils.

My micro-teaching experience (self-reflection)

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-24 23:06:35 UTC

As preservice teachers do not have an actual classroom, I did microteaching at my institute. I also administered a survey with my coursemates during my micro-teaching. During this lesson, I couldn't feel more confident and free because I planned to teach 10 students, but on that day, there were 22 students in the lesson. That's why this number of students was a problem for me because I didn't have enough handouts for all of them. I felt nervous, and the students also didn't feel much responsibility to complete the task.

However, my second task for them was suitable for more students as well. It was a role play. There were 2 role-play situations, so I divided students into 2 groups, but at that time, I found controlling this number of students difficult.

Anyway, all the students liked my micro-teaching, and at the end of the lesson, they gave me feedback and useful advice.

Classroom observation feedback

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-25 22:12:48 UTC

I also asked a teacher to observe my class. They provided the following feedback:

To look quite confident, you should learn and practice giving clear instructions.
You should also pay more attention to your voice and pronunciation of words.
At the end of the class or any activity, you should try to summarize the main points, thus you will build your confidence.
Having a teacher talk can also build your confidence in the classroom. So, don't be shy to talk.

Practicum experience and EAR

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-25 22:29:09 UTC

The previous practicum was difficult for me. I couldn't talk or explain topics to pupils well, and before saying something, I thought about it for a longer time. And when it came to giving instructions, it took more time. Because of this, my instructions were not clear or understandable to students. Due to this, some pupils didn't participate actively in my lesson activities.

But this time, after learning about EAR and knowing more about how to teach confidently, the lesson started to seem easier than in previous times because I learned the ways of giving instructions and ways of showing confidence in the classroom. My lessons became better and more interactive. My students listened to me more attentively and actively participated in the classroom. I believe this research will help me forever to become the best in my job.
I hope I will not have a problem related to teaching in the future, but even if I have, I can directly do this kind of research.

Teacher suggestions

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-25 22:32:59 UTC

My teachers provided useful suggestions to teach confidently:

Preparing for the lesson in advance or making clear lesson plans and handouts can help a teacher feel more confident during the lesson
Doing public speaking decreases my fear level,
And by learning how to provide instructions, I can learn how to organize activities better, and this will help me save time.

I can say all of these ways helped me become more confident in the lesson.

How do I feel about EAR?

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-25 23:47:15 UTC

Actually, before knowing about this EAR, I was worried and afraid that I would not be a good teacher because of my lower confidence level. But when our teacher explained EAR and when she said, "If we do it, at the end we can solve our problem", I felt hopeful about becoming a good, confident teacher.

For me, learning EAR was very helpful because in the exploratory stage I learned about why I feel myself as a LESS CONFIDENT TEACHER. At that stage, I understood that it's mostly related to my language level.

This research helped me from every side, mostly the action stage was the most important part for me because in this stage I finally solved my problem. I have understood that it's not mostly related to my language level, as I said at the end of the explanatory stage.