• Director's Note
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• Sessions This Week
  • In the Classroom: Social Cognition & Knowledge Construction
  • In the Library: Constructivism Readings
  • In Practice: Motivation Case Study Intro
• Training Checklist
• Next Week's Sessions

Director's Notes

Welcome to your ninth week as an intern at the Institute. Please excuse the early posting but I am at a conference the remainder of the week and wanted to make sure it got done before I got too busy.

I have already seen some great concept maps this week. Lots of creativity! Many of you are taking the extra week given to turn in your concept maps. Next week I will post the urls for everyone to view each other's work.

You should be moving into your third week of implementing your behavior modification plan and collecting and recording data. After this week you will have one more week to collect data and then begin work on your final ABA Project Report. I have been providing you with suggestions for ways to continue to work on this project while you are collecting data so that you get a portion of it written before the final week.

This week we will finish up our cognition chapters with aspects of social cognition and modeling as well as a chapter on knowledge construction and the many implications these ideas have for education and training environments. Many of you have finished your concept map for our cognitive unit. Some are taking the extra week you needed and will be turning your url in this week. The following two weeks in the course, we will cover content related to motivation which will bring us into your next project - the Motivation Case Study Project.

A look at our schedule will inform you that we have only one chapter for readings next week to allow you time to work on your ABA Project Report.

Our objectives this week are to:

1. Identify characteristics, assumptions, and practices associated with social learning theory
2. Distinguish instances explained by operant conditioning from those explained by social cognitive theory
3. Recognize characteristics and examples of modeling and reinforcement and punishment and learning within social cognition theory
4. Recognize statements consistent with research on the role of modeling on aggressive and moral behavior.
5. Recognize characteristics and examples of modeling and reciprocal causation.
6. Recognize examples of memory codes and the retention component of modeling
7. Distinguish those things that are likely to be learned through modeling from those that are not.
8. Distinguish self-efficacy from self-concept and self-esteem.
9. Recognize instances of high and low self-efficacy and make predictions of behavior based on the level of efficacy.
10. Recognize factors that influence self-efficacy
11. Define the term collective self-efficacy
12. Discuss the role of failure and feedback in the development of self-efficacy.
13. Recognize examples and characteristics of self-regulation and self-reaction.
14. Recognize and identify strategies that promote self-regulation.
15. Recognize descriptions and examples of mediated learning, distributed cognition, cognitive apprenticeship, technology-based discussions, reciprocal teaching, guided peer questioning, and community of learners.
16. Discuss benefits of peer interaction on learning
17. Distinguish among situations in which adult interaction might be more beneficial than peer interaction in a learning situation.
18. Recognize strategies and topics appropriate for class discussions and identify the benefits of classroom discussions for student learning.
19. Identify and discuss strategies for teaching reading comprehension and learning from text
20. Recognize accurate descriptions of peer tutoring
21. Recognize characteristics, examples and assumptions of cooperative learning
22. Recognize advantages and disadvantages of cooperative learning.
23. Recognize examples of different types of cooperative learning groups and strategies within groups.
24. Recognize statements consistent with current research on cooperative learning.
    
    

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Materials

Each week this section will provide you with any necessary material that will be essential for you completing sessions.

Task #1:

• Download note pages for Motivation and Self-Regulation and for Situated Cognition (these are in Word format).
• Download the Motivation and Self-Regulation lecture.
• Download the Situated Cognition lecture.

Task #2 (if you have not already completed the concept map assignment):

• Download the troubleshooting guide (34KB DOC file) to use if you have problems FTPing your concept map.

• Email your Director;
• Email the Mentor;
• Email other interns.
• Refer to the Course FAQ.