Chapter 10 Learning Log

What? People learn all the time by watching others. In the process of doing this, they begin t assume control over their own behavior. Models are a big part in how people learn from others. There are many things that help a student do good in the classroom. They are self efficacy and self regulation. Self efficacy is when people engage in certain behaviors when they believe they will be able to behavior successfully. Self regulation is when we control our thoughts and actions. The reciprocal causation has three stages to it, to help see how environment, behavior, and person influence one another.

So What? This information is important to me so that I know as a future teacher the type of ways I should act. If a child learns by watching others, then they may pick up behaviors or other things from me. Understanding self efficacy is important to me, because if a student feels good about a certain activity, over another, means they will want to do the activity they feel more comfortable with. As I learn what students feel better doing, I can have activity’s doing that and then incorporate the activity they don’t like to help them gain some confidence in that area.

Now What? I will apply this to my classroom by helping my students gain high self efficacy. I can do this when the class does an art project of some kind after a unit has been taught. As the class goes around looking at other classmates work, I will have them leave notes of what they liked about that piece of art work. After that, I will ask the students to write down only one thing they would like to do better in the future if they were to do this project again. This will help them set good goals to help them gain higher self efficacy.

Chapter 9 Learning Log

What? Behavior’s come in many different ways. Classical conditioning was first described by Ivan Pavlov. Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who did research about salivation. Classical conditioning has many different stages to it that has an effect on how people act. It is done subconscious and naturally and is stimulus response. While operant conditioning is done conscious and contingent, this is the behavior reinforcement. Using reinforcement effectively can help to shape new behaviors that are wanted in the classroom. Addressing especially difficult classroom behaviors can be tricky, but if you do it in the right manner, you can accomplish what you are desiring. There are positive reinforcements and negative reinforcements that are used in the classroom. Positive adds to the students knowledge. Negative takes away from the knowledge and does nothing to help them.


So What? Knowing about the different type of reinforcers is helpful to know about as a future teacher. It is helpful because there is positive and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement will add information and other things to the students’ knowledge, while negative reinforcement takes away. Knowing about this will help me be a better teacher by knowing which reinforcers to use in the classroom to help keep order and to keep the students interested in learning.

Now What? I can apply reinforcements to the classroom in many different ways. I want to use positive reinforcements, because they will help the students the most. I am not all for the hot tickets to give to students. I think students should have fun learning, and don’t need bribery to learn. When that happens, the students don’t always remember what they learned. If the students have lost an interested in learning, then I will use the hot tickets to get them interested in learning again, and then take them away when they are no longer needed. Plus, hot tickets can more work for me as a teacher than I would like.

Chapter 7 Learning Log

What? Constructive processes in learning and memory. Correlation is a big part of learning. As students meet together to discuss the topics covered in class, they are able to learn together. This also helps, because we don’t all catch every point that is taught. By pulling all of our knowledge together, we are then able to learn all we need to know and more. There is construction in storage and retrieval, plus the knowledge of social process. When we organize our knowledge, we do it in many different ways. Promoting effective knowledge construction is a major part of this chapter. Accommodating students with special needs is a very important thing for every teacher to do. Sometimes this can be a hard part to do.

So What? This topic is important to me as a future teacher because I will then be able to better help my future students to learn correct explanations. Understanding what learning really is will helps me to better understand where my students are coming from. Some may say that two plus two equals five, because that is what they have been taught. But by helping them see what they might have misunderstood will help them not get mixed up.

Now What? I can help my future students’ discovery learning by teaching them in a new and fun way. To have students discovery learning is an exciting thing. I can best apply this by taking the a lesson and finding ways ahead of time different ways there are to learn that lesson. Then as I am teaching that lesson, apply some of the different ways I came up with and see how many students catch on better. But before I can really apply this, I will need to learn more about how to apply it and how it all works.