Thursday, October 24, 2013
post seven
Social cognitive theory is the idea that students learn and acquire knowledge by observing others and replicating what they see in other's actions. Constructivist theory is one where the student only gains knowledge by adding to previous knowledge that is already known by the student. As a teacher, I want my students to be able to express themselves in writing. Constructivist theory falls short in this category because if the student doesn't know how to write well when coming in how does he build on that. Social cognitive theory states that the student can mirror what he sees. As a teacher, I will write a lot and read a lot to my students and hopefully they can emulate a certain structure or ideas that are presented to become better writers.
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I like your idea of demonstrating your own writing in class, as well as reading in the classroom. I think the best way to learn correct writing style is by observing it by reading. This is clearly the cognitive theory as you mentioned. I agree that it would be difficult to use the constructivist theory on beginner students but perhaps you could just build on the fundamentals of what they know such as sentence structure or just nouns and verbs and maybe that would count as building on what they know, assuming they know the basics of forming sentences and literacy.
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