During week 2-1 formulated a deeper understanding of social cognitive learning and motivation theories. I personally related to self-efficacy in regards to how I have learned my whole life.
2. What is learning from social cognitive theory perspective?
According to theorist, Albert Bandura, "social cognitive theory focuses on how people develop social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral capabilities, how people live their own lives, and what motivates them. Learning, according to social cognitive theory perspective is a dynamic system that can be described by triarchic reciprocal causality, the constant interaction of environment, behaviors, and personal variables. While observational learning and self-efficacy are two key elements of social cognitive learning theory.
3. What are the big things that you learned from social cognitive learning theory & motivation theories?
The bigs things I learned from social cognitive learning theory & motivation theories is self-efficacy is an important factor of success in the classroom as well as in life. I personally reflected on self-efficacy for some time after learning more about it in the reading. In high school, I remember having a high sense of personal competence and effectiveness in my skills across the academic disciples. I always got straight A's in all my classes and excelled in extra curricular activities. However, when I started college it seemed that my whole sense-of-self was shaken a little bit. I was not always getting A's, I found myself struggling to adjust in the beginning. Therefore, my entire judgment regarding my competence in college was at question. Luckily, with my driven attitude, I did not let my plummet in self-efficacy deteriorate my ultimate motivation to succeed in college.
4. Do you think social cognitive theory demonstrates your own beliefs in how human learning occurs?
I do agree with Albert Bandura's perspective on how people learn. I believe many factors affect the way people operate and learn behaviors. I will apply an agentic style of learning in my classroom because although I am there to teach and guide my students, I want them to also be in charge of their own learning environment and motivation to succeed.
5. Do you have any questions or concerns about course learning?
No, I do not have any questions or concerns!
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Hi Shanygne!
I love the simple set up of your blog. For you week 1-2 entry, I agree with you that it is important to consider a person's emotions and thoughts before trying to understand your behavior. On a basic level, I think that this theory is effective, however in my opinion, it is a little too "cookie-cutter". Human behavior is very complicated. However, in the classroom I believe that implementing punishments and reinforcements are certainly an effective way to promote learning through changing behavior. My thoughts for your course learning is to continue using your personal experiences and relating those to the topics we are learning to help grasp everything even further!
Hi Maggi! I like your thoughts on how learning a behavior takes repetition. Almost like the phrase, "practice makes perfect". With repetition of behavior in order to make it learned it is important to remember operant conditioning with punishment and reinforcement. These conditions are what motivate the individual to change their behavior based on the consequence of that behavior. I believe that behaviorism is an effective tool in the classroom to shape student behavior. However, I do not think it is a good "definition" to explain how a person learns or makes certain decisions. I would spice up your blog a bit by sharing pictures or videos that help you understand what we are studying! Happy learning!
Hi Marissa,
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your view on self-efficacy and to your experience at the beginning of college. I, too, lost my footing a bit and had to learn how to study on my own and to motivate myself to learn. I think that it is great that you are so driven and did not allow your initial struggles to impact your success. I also agree that students need to be in charge of their own learning environment.
Miranda
Hello Marissa,
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I really enjoyed reading your blog! I love the way how you explained self-efficacy and also threw in your own personal experience with it. I can, in a way, relate except I had the opposite scenario. In high school I was a B student but now in the passed couple years I have gotten As. Who knew! But I also liked that although you weren't getting As all the time that you did not let that get the best of you!
-Melissa
I really like the illustrations that you added to your blog! It makes reading it very enjoyable! I definitely can relate to your experience transitioning from high school to college. I think I lost some self-efficacy after seeing how high grades did not come as easily as they had before. But I'm inspired that you did not sink into learned helplessness and continue to motivate yourself!
ReplyDeleteHey Marissa,
ReplyDeleteI loved your motivational image! And, I like the fact they you considered your students to make the decision to make their own choice on how they want to learn whatever material that they are learning.
Switching from high school to college, no one really teaches how to prepare for college even though everyone could use a lesson in that. High school teachers consider us children that still need a little discipline, and 3 months later we're considered adults that are responsible learn everything on our own.