Social Cognitivism

1. Today we learned about social cognitivism which is basically a mix of behaviorism and cognitavism. The basic idea is that we observe the actions of others around us constantly and we learn and reflect from the behaviors of others. Based on the performances of others, we will create our self-efficacy.
2. This means that we have to be very careful as teachers what we are modeling to out students. Like someone in our class said, a teacher had a student with special needs in his class and he would kind of chuckle at the students responses sometimes because he didn't know how to act and it was a way to kind of shrug off the ridiculousness. Eventually, his students started to laugh at this student as well. We have to model good behavior and use vicarious learning to help student learn behaviors from each other.
3. I think the influence that we have on children is greater than we think. We need to keep in mind that they are constant observers. They see a lot more of what we do than we want them to so we have to keep in mind what we are modeling for them. We also have to help students learn how to self regulate and help them boost their self efficacy. These are all contributing factors to student behavior and their performance and achievement.