Key Concept of Tolman’s Theory on Purposive
Personal Message
Behaviorism
1. Learning is always purposive and goal-
directed
2. Cognitive maps help students perform
well. Organisms select the shortest or
easiest path to achieve a goal.
3. Latent learning stays with the individual
until needed.
4. Learning is influenced by expectations,
perceptions, representations, needs and
other internal variables like hunger.
3 Key Concepts of Albert Bandura
1. Conditions necessary for effective
modeling to occur
2. Cognitive factors reciprocal causation
3. Social learning implications for classroom
use
1.1 I make sure my students do what I require
them to do, I should state the goal clearly and
specifically
1.2 I must set my goals and direction first for my
student to understand well
1.3 I must set clear objectives and directions for
better result
2.1 I will use concept maps when I am teaching
for my students to have a better learning
experiences
2.2 students can easily learn if one concept relate
to another concept
3.1 I will use some strategy to prolong the
knowledge to my students so they can retrieve it
whenever they need to
3.2 as the sayings say tell me and I forget. Teach
me and I remember, involve me and I learn
4.1 I will equalized/fair the reward and
punishment system in my room for my students
to be more disciplined and motivated to have
higher grades
How I apply it in my teaching
1.1 I will discuss some phrase and I make sure
that the students pay attention to what I say
(attention process) and I will see to it that the
student will process the information and tries to
remember it (retention process)
1.2 I will tell the students to repeat the phrase,
the student will imitate the phrase that I mention
earlier (Motor Reproduction process). If the
student pronounced the phrase correctly, they
will be rewarded (reinforcement process)
2.1 I will make sure that I teach self-efficacy
through scaffolding and clear goals because this
can result in higher efficacy to students, higher
determination which can result for better grades.
3.1 I make sure that my students are not bored
in my class by cracking some jokes at specific
time that the joke is really needed
3.2 I make sure that I must be a role model in
appropriate behaviors and take care that I do not
model inappropriate behaviors