Efficacy

It certainly takes a lot of self-confidence to be a teacher. A teacher lacking in self-confidence will not be respected by their students because the students will not have confidence in the teacher's ability either. It is also difficult to respect a teacher who expects good work from you and yet fails to return tests and papers in a timely manner. The student-teacher relationship cannot be one-sided and hard work should be expected from both parties. Often, teachers who have a high work ethic provide a great example for kids.

Efficacy can be developed only through the way you react to situations. By training yourself to laugh at and learn from your mistakes instead of beating yourself up about them or becoming upset and giving up, you are training yourself to be persistent and confident in your ability to work through problems that you may not have been able to solve the first time. Self-awareness is extremely important in the profession of teaching. There were always those teachers, as we saw in "Chalk" that don't even know they're extremely boring or over-the-top and distracting. Being aware of your strengths and weaknesses as a person and as an educator can prevent you from making a fool of yourself and losing the respect of your students.