Which of the learning activities/skills can you think of that lend themselves to learning through modeling?
I think Teacher Projects is one of the activities we do in this classroom that is an extension of learning through modeling, especially when we discuss how they went after the project. The audience watches the presenters and can distinguish what is good and what is bad to do during a Teacher Project. Brian also models the correct way to present lessons to the class. So, through the modeling of students and Brian, we are able to see how Teacher Projects should be presented. Another activity that has learning through modeling is watching our teachers in our school placements. I have the pleasure of observing a teacher at Farragut while she teaches the classroom. I learn, through her modeling, the correct way to interact with students, the right questions to stimulate thinking, and even how to provide engaging activities. Modeling is important because people do it daily so they can behave better. What I mean by behaving better is contributing to society with behaviors that are deemed appropriate.
How might self-efficacy and self-regulation contribute to the intervention plans you use in your case study?
Self-efficacy and self-regulation are needed in my case study for my students to be productive in the classroom and to exhibit appropriate behaviors. It is imperative for students to excel at both of these concepts, because the students that can self regulate are the students who are more engaged in the learning. We had a discussion in class today about the difference between the two of these concepts, and I agreed that I was a little behind on the difference of these concepts. Self-efficacy is a person’s judgement about being able to perform a certain activity and self-regulation is a person’s ability to regulate their behaviors in certain circumstances. So, the main difference is that self-efficacy is about people thinking if they can accomplish a task and self-regulation is the tools they will use to accomplish the task. Both of these concepts are going to be important with intervention plans for my students.
You made good connections between what we do in our very class. I agree that Teacher Projects are a very good teaching tool of modeling and how to learn our own ideas and conduct our actions based off of others. We must constantly remember that we are serving as a model whether positive or negative in the classroom at all times.
ReplyDeleteI liked the examples you used for modeling. We have definitly benefited from the modeling of good teaching from our mentor teachers. I also liked your explanation of self-regulation and self-efficacy, simple and to the point.
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