12/10 Learning Log Ch. 10 Social Cognitive...

What? This week in class we talked about social cognitivism and how people can learn by observing others. We talked in depth about important aspects including modeling, self-efficacy, self-regulation, and vicarious learning. We split into groups to learn about these different parts and presented a slide show to the class.

So What? Modeling is an important part because children can learn valuable lessons from studying other people and their behaviors. Along with modeling the observer must pay attention and remember what the model does. Self-efficacy is an important part of how a person feels about themselves and the judgements they make about their behaviors. Self-regulation allows the individual to monitor and evaluate their own progress and becomes an increasingly important part of life as a student grows up.

Now What? When As a teacher it is important to foster a high self-efficacy in your students by giving motivation to challenging skills and notice not only success but improvement. Also, in the classroom set challenging but realistic goals for students to achieve and encourage them to evaluate their performance to help with self-regulation.