Introduction: Self-confidence is an indispensable and important psychological quality in the process of human growth. It means a person's confidence and courage to deal with life, and it means a sense of career accomplishment. With it, a person's character will be cheerful, lively, frank, and generous, and he will be able to appreciate and accept others; with it, a person will be optimistic and full of courage in the face of difficulties and setbacks. In a word, self-confidence is the cornerstone of success and the most valuable asset in our life. How to improve students' self-confidence

1. Role model education method---use the deeds of famous people to guide students to build self-confidence

Every student has the desire to succeed in his heart. Students also have their own idols. In view of the characteristics of young people who worship heroes and have strong imitation ability, we make full use of the self-confidence, struggle and success stories of Chinese and foreign scientists in the teaching process to educate students and cultivate their self-confidence.

There are many scientists in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, who have mediocre talents or are in adversity, but they are not willing to be mediocre, do not succumb to fate, work hard and finally achieve success. For example: Edison, a naughty and inquiring student who was judged by his teacher as "incorrigible", invented one thing a day on average in his life and made an indelible contribution to human happiness; he was laughed at by teachers and classmates as "intelligence" Einstein, who was slow, became a giant in the scientific community and so on. Not only do we tell students about the deeds of these celebrities and tell them that their achievements are world-famous, but they also let students know that their struggle was full of hardships, setbacks and hardships. For their ideals, they have devoted a lifetime of energy and effort. If they did not have strong perseverance and firm self-confidence, they would achieve nothing.

At the same time, we also asked students to collect some famous quotes that build self-confidence in learning. Students collected Hemingway's "You can kill me, but you can't defeat me." ?Confidence is the cornerstone of the strong's success, and depression is the grave of the weak? And so on. In this way, students can be motivated and encouraged by the famous quotes, and gain self-confidence in their studies. They believe that through their unremitting efforts, they will definitely achieve good results. Through the method of example and demonstration, it can arouse strong enthusiasm among students and produce a strong educational effect.

2. The principle of positive education---find the shining points of students and let them have self-confidence

Praise and encourage more and criticize less. Every student has a shining point? This is an educational creed that our teachers all know. It is necessary to make students trust teachers, shorten the spiritual distance between teachers and students, and communicate with each other, thereby stimulating students' ambition and thirst for knowledge.

In the classroom, we often encounter situations where students give wrong answers. If the teacher finds the shining points in the students’ answers and praises them, then the students will naturally be very happy and have more confidence in answering subsequent questions; on the contrary, If a student's answers are often criticized by teachers or ridiculed by others, the student will feel a sense of failure and will slowly lose confidence in answering questions, which will gradually affect his future studies, work and even all aspects of life. Teachers should create a harmonious environment in the classroom, get along with students on an equal footing, create an atmosphere of democracy and respect, and give students the opportunity to express their opinions freely. Teachers should pay special attention to students' wrong answers, make the best use of the situation, and protect students' self-confidence.

?Ten fingers have different lengths? There are always students who are naughty and tired of studying or have withdrawn personalities. We firmly believe that every student is like a seed, but they only sprout and bloom sooner or later. They also desire success, and teachers need to take good care of them and give them confidence. Sometimes a few ordinary praises from teachers can be infinitely powerful for students, especially students who rarely receive praise. A few words of encouragement will bring students confidence, and self-confidence is the key to their success. As a teacher, you must not only be good at catching the shining points in students' learning, but also be good at creating shining points for students to shine, and be able to mobilize students' emotional factors in a timely manner, so that students can believe in their inner potential and have self-confidence.

3. Success experience method - provide students with more opportunities to get rid of failure and achieve virtual success

Psychological research shows that lack of self-confidence and inferiority complex are always related to multiple failures. experience. Self-confidence is an inevitable emotional experience for success. Therefore, educators should create various favorable conditions so that students can experience more the joy of success in their early experiences. By creating good times, we can increase students' positive aesthetic feelings about school life and good premonitions about future life, and more importantly, help students build a good self-image.

Specific measures:

Encourage students to actively participate in various school activities. Such as: literary and artistic activities, sports activities, calligraphy and painting and other activities. For students who have won prizes in various competitions, they should be publicly praised and awarded with prizes, and everyone should be called upon to learn from them.

Carry out a variety of class activity classes. Various activities are organized according to students' interests and hobbies. By participating in activities, students stimulate their interest in learning, explore their inner potential, and cultivate their creativity. At the same time, students boldly express themselves in activities, which enhances students' self-confidence. We must be good at creating opportunities for students to succeed, so that students can firmly believe in learning knowledge well.

A variety of forms of examinations should be used when examining students’ academic performance. If you sometimes use the form of questions to examine, design some difficult, easy and general questions. When asking students, according to the students' learning situation, let the students with excellent learning, average learning, and poor learning answer the above corresponding difficulty levels. During this operation process, students cannot be aware that the teacher intentionally asked students to answer this way, otherwise, the result will be counterproductive, so that every student can learn well.

You can use the mental health class to organize students to play games to find their strengths. Method 1: Students find their own strengths. Method 2: Everyone looks for the advantages, that is, the students in the group all look for the advantages of one of the group members. In this way, students gain confidence in their own progress.

For individual students who cannot find their own strengths, ask the whole class to help them find their strengths and build self-confidence. Although setbacks can make people lose confidence, finding another positive way can transform it. Suhomlinski never gives a failing grade to students below the fourth grade, but lets them re-do the questions that lost points, so that they can get good grades in the process of progress and discover their own strength. It can be seen that teachers should constantly create opportunities for success in teaching and activities so that students with low self-esteem can participate unconsciously.

4. Reasonable Expectation Method - Correct Positioning and Build Confidence

The reason why students lack self-confidence and even have low self-esteem is that they do not evaluate themselves correctly and often compare their own shortcomings with the advantages of others. compared to. Therefore, education guides students to establish reasonable expectations of success that are suitable for their own development level, and educates them not to aim too high and have high expectations but low abilities. This can prevent students from suffering psychological setbacks because their expectations are too high and difficult to achieve. While teachers allow students to see bright prospects, they also need to let them understand that without hard work and hard work, or even multiple setbacks and failures, no matter how bright the prospects are, it will be difficult to achieve them. Don’t set too high expectations, but complete every learning task in a down-to-earth manner.

Some poor students may build up their self-confidence through education and guidance, but they tend to be eager for success in specific actions. Teachers must make great efforts to cultivate students' patience and eliminate their impatience. In addition, we must help them correctly deal with the "repetition" phenomenon that may occur in the process of progress, and be mentally prepared to deal with failure, so that they cannot only expect success, let alone have too fast or too high expectations of success.

Cultivating and enhancing students' self-confidence can be carried out through the above methods, but the above methods are closely related and each method is complementary to each other. In addition, we must pay attention to the degree of cultivating students' self-confidence and prevent inappropriate education from pushing students from one extreme to another.

If students are trained to be arrogant, complacent or even arrogant due to overconfidence, this will fundamentally deviate from the purpose of education.