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.