Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Social Cognitive Post 2


I think this shows that children are at an age when they see anyone do any act they want to try it themselves.  The students look highly up to teachers because they are the head of the classroom so if a teacher does something and a student sees them do that they will want to try it.  Teachers are not the only models in a classroom.  Students are also a model in more ways because they play with each other and will follow each other and be friends.  Also if anyone that comes into the classroom that is an adult can also be a model for good or bad.
Cultural factors will definitely affect the students that I teach because at this age because all the boys will look up to males and girls will look up to females.  Luckily culture is changing especially in the gender gap role.  Women have jobs that were thought to only be for men and vise-versa, but culture has still not completely changed so it will also affect the classroom depending on what language the students speak at home. 
The rules I will have in my classroom is that you are not allowed to speak while I am talking.  I will model this by not talking while someone I called on is talking.  Also students have to try even if they do not want to.  I will be a model for this by working with the students and helping them to be motivated in the subject matter that we are going over at that time.

1 comment:

  1. I don't think students will want to model teachers ALL the time. Do high school students want to model everything their 78 year old english instructor does/says? (Probably not) Why not? Do you all want to model me? (as a different scenario) Maybe, maybe not....

    I don't think it's always true that males look to males and females look to females--that's a bit strong. Gender may play a small role but it's only one factor.

    Will not interrupting be THE distinguishing factor of what it means to be a member of your classroom? (Will that determine whether they're in the culture?)

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