Teaching - does it create confident and successful learners?

One important aspect of good teaching is enabling students to become confident in their abilities to learn. Teachers need to be really good communicators so that they can bring out shy students and encourage them to talk and ask questions. Fostering confidence in students is difficult to measure though because confidence is not something that we can learn or get out of a bottle; it is something that people get after successfully achieving their goals on a consistent basis. What teachers might need to do is to treat students as individuals who have their own unique abilities rather than treat them in a one-size-fits-all approach. Students need to find their niche in education in order to become confident and this is the role of a good teacher to help them achieve that.

The following video discusses some of the issues raised in the above.