Toni Self- Social Cognitive Theory

Big Idea: Humans learn through listening, observing, and interacting. 

 

Learning happens...

 

Previously my learning idea was “Humans learn through repeated visual, auditory, and kinesthetic lessons”.  Although I do agree that learning happens through these different avenues, not all learning occurs in the classroom.  In fact, much of our knowledge is formed from past experiences and modeling.  The different experiences and interactions that humans have form different foundations in which they will build their knowledge.  Modeling is observing another’s behavior and imitating it. (EdPysch, Module 10, Page 174)  This is why I feel that my revised learning idea “Humans learn through listening, observing and interacting” better depicts how humans learn.  In the classroom, I believe that reinforcement is necessary in order to motivate and correct students.  For example, if a student does awesome on his test he may receive a sticker or if a student is talking in class he may receive laps to run at recess.  Either example tries to portray that this reaction will motivate the student to continue working hard or to stop a behavior. (EdPysch, Module 10, Page 176) This idea still inhibits that students will learn from auditory, visual and kinesthetic lesson; however, those are not the only ways they learn, which was discussed. I chose the Social Cognitive Theory to edit my idea through the idea of modeling and motivating the students.  These are both important in the way that students learn.  Motivating students is key in their success in learning.  

Activity: Martha Speaks!

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/prek/reading/resources/7775/

This activity would be for a Preschool classroom.  The teacher would read through different vocabulary words and the students would stand around the room doing actions for the words.  By doing a motion with the word will reinforce the meaning of the word in their memory.  For example, the teacher says “jumping” and the children jump up and down in place.  This activity goes along with my learning idea because the students would be listening to the teacher say the word, observing other students act out the word and then interact (or do the action themselves). 

 

 

 

 

Toni Self: Redesign for blog

I would keep my idea of people learn because many different factors affect how people learn including: genes, experiences and the critical and sensitive development periods.  In module 6, the constructivist theory is explained.  It supports my learning theory because it says “that each individual builds knowledge through interaction and experience” (EdPhysch, Module 6, Page 108).  Not one person has the exact same interactions and experiences of another; therefore the knowledge is built on different foundations.  Students will build different connections through different ways of teaching.  Each student will actively learn through different opportunities and by presenting different opportunities gives them better chances of making connections to the lesson.  The only part that I would change would be the activity at the end would be completed with the help of other students.  Activities completed with other students can help the student make better sense of the information or even trigger something to really understand the activity (Theory of Educators, Page 4).  Page 4 talks about how more recent findings have suggested group work to help students actively learn.  So looking at my example after the teacher wrote and discussed the process of baking cookies, then students would be given time to get into groups and together bake the cookies.  This gives students the opportunity to make it themselves, so they would have the experience which would help reinforce the concept.  Also, if students had questions their groups would be able to either answer it for them or work together to figure out the answer together.  This is a very active way of learning with others. 

Big Idea: Humans learn through repeated visual, kinesthetic and auditory lessons.

Activity: The teacher presents the lesson on the chalk board (visual and auditory) then students do hands on project.  For example, teacher writes out how to make a batch of cookies and leads the students through each step.  Then students are time to work with other students to make cookies.

 

 

Toni Self: Big Idea Reflection

Big Idea: Humans learn through repeated visual, kinesthetic and auditory lessons.

 

 

 

Activity: The teacher presents the lesson on the chalk board (visual and auditory) then students do hands on project.  For example, teacher writes out how to make a batch of cookies and leads the students through each step.  Then students are given independence to do it themselves.

Reflection:

My big idea is that humans learn through visual, kinesthetic and auditory lessons.  Basically I think that students cannot fully grasp and contain information when they just listen to a boring lecture and take notes.  Not only is this a lazy way of teaching but it also lacks any creativity.  A boring lecture will not only loose the attention of the students but will take away from lesson.  I truly think if the teacher is not excited about the lesson, neither will the students.  There are very few people who can listen to a lecture and then remember most of what was discussed.  By involving the three different types of teaching, it reinforces and reviews the information.  I think students need to be engaged in these three types of teaching to really comprehend and contain a lesson.    In my experience, when I have been taught in these three ways I have an easier time remembering and reviewing the information.  My example for this was very basic, but it does explain my big idea.  A student writes out on the chalk board how to make the cookies (visual), then she leads the students through each step and answers questions (auditory), and lastly she gives the student the opportunity to make a batch of cookies themselves (kinesthetic).  This gives the students a chance to put in to practice what they have learned.  This lesson would relate to my big idea by covering each area that I believe students need to fully understand a lesson. 

Toni Self

 

Hello Everyone!

My name is Toni Self and I am a sophmore studying Early Childhood Education.  I transferred to IU last semester from a small private school.  I am from Fairland, Indiana which is located on the southeast side of Indianapolis.  I have two older siblings: one is a Chick-fil-a manager and the other is a RN.  They both live in Columbus, OH leaving their baby sister with the parents.  My mom is a nurse practitioner at IU Health in downtown Indianapolis.  My dad is a business man for a chemical company. 

 

 

First semester of college I had this grand idea that I wanted to be a wedding planner, but I was still unsure.  So then I took a career test and it made everything clear.  It said that since I really wanted to be a mother one day and since I love children that I should go into teaching. I absolutely love my major now! I am very excited to be a teacher one day and I am very excited for this field experience.