Bandura's+Social+Cognitive+Theory


 * Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory **
 * Social Cognitive Theory **à Stresses the idea that human learning occurs in a social environment. By observing others, people acquire knowledge, rules, skills, strategies, beliefs, attitudes. Humans also learn the usefulness and appropriateness of behaviors and the consequences of behavior, and they act in accordance with beliefs about their capabilities and the expected outcomes of their actions.

** Learning ** occurs either **enactively**, through actual doing, or **vicariously**, by observing models perform (e.g. live, symbolic, portrayed electronically)
 * // Figure 1: //**// Model of Bandura’s Triadic Reciprocality //
 * Perceived Self-Efficacy ** à Belief’s concerning one’s capabilities to organize and implement actions necessary to learn or perform behaviors at designated levels.

Self-efficacy is relevant to teachers as well as students. Instructional-efficacy refers to personal beliefs about one’s ability to help students learn. Teachers with low instructional-efficacy may avoid planning activities they believe to exceed their capabilities, not persist with students having difficulties, expend little effort to find materials, and not re-teach in alternate ways that might enhance student understanding. Teachers with high instructional-efficacy are more apt to develop challenging activities, help students succeed and persevere with students who have problems. These motivational effects on teaching enhance student achievement. ** How does Ms. G’s classroom demonstrate instructional efficacy? What evidence do you see in the video consistent with high-instructional efficacy? **
 * // Figure 2 //**// : Self-Efficacy Model of Schooling //
 * Self-Efficacy and Professional Educators: **