Learning And Socio Emotional Behavior

The state of Kansas is one of only three states to enact comprehensive social and emotional learning standards with developmental benchmarks in K-12 education, (Dusenbury, Weissberg, Goren and Domitrovich, 2014), and it has also tied those standards to college readiness. The Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) lists The Kansas social, emotional, and character development model standards aligned to Kansas college and career readiness standards (2012). Among these standards is the ability to “Identify multiple techniques to manage stress and maintain confidence” (KSDE, 2012). In order for stress management and confidence strategies to be taught, the students, teacher, and education system as a whole, must make it a priority instead of assuming that students will develop the skills on their own.

Behaviorism and social learning theory are examples of two mechanistic theories that focus on explaining children’s behavior. Social learning theory emphasizes observational learning and imitation. On the other hand, behaviorism is rooted in focusing on how the environment impacts development. The environment shapes the child’s development as the child strives to adapt to the environment. Both theories deal with explaining behavior and consist of similarities, but are composed of different elements of explaining behavior.

The most significant experience and committee I was a part of this year, was as a member of the district Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Committee. This committee was spearheaded by our Assistant Superintendent who wanted to gather those passionate about SEL and the whole child to research and develop a curriculum to use in Wilton Public Schools across all tiers of intervention. Thus far, the committee has set goals, reviewed protocols for meetings, researched current practices amongst the building and discussed curricular options. The committee is comprised of staff from every building and discipline as well as the Assistant Superintendent and the School Climate Advisor.

At three months of age, infants will spend their time watching what is going on around them. They will show their first real smile, perhaps accompanying it with some gurgling in an attempt to start interacting with others, especially parents/guardians.

I have selected this theory primarily because I believe that a great majority of our learning during the course of our entire lives is achieved by observation. Bandura’s social cognitive theory is a learning based on the ideas that people learn by watching what others do and that human thought processes are central to understanding personality. While social cognition experts agree that there is a fair amount of influence on development generated by learned behavior displayed in the environment in which one grows up, they believe that the individual person is just as important in determining moral development. People learn by observing others,

More than ever before, our country needs schools that will prepare today’s youth for the challenges and opportunities they face, youth who will become knowledgeable, responsible, and caring citizens and leaders for the future. An outstanding education prepares students to be strong in a wide range of academic disciplines. This essay focuses on Social Emotional Learning and how to implement and sustain it within schools so that students can achieve greater academic success.

There are various different factors that influence aggression in both children and adults. More so, significant research has proven that there are distinct differences between aggression shown by men and women. Aggression is behavior intended to harm another individual, and extreme cases on aggression is called violence. In 2010, 90% of murderers in the United States were male. Numerous researchers have found that the gender differences in aggression are astounding, and that males show aggression a significant amount more than females. These differences are primarily because of what we learn, and what we experience throughout the lifespan. It is true that both males and females learn aggression through learning and experience, but the way

Undergraduates and youths in general have different opinions on the outcome of drinking alcohol alone and mixing it with energy drinks. Their perceptions differ because of the variant experiences the individuals have had for long. There are different articles used in this report that have significant information to the opinions of undergraduates concerning the outcome of drinking alcohol alone and mixing it with energy drinks. This report includes different journal articles with different and relevant information on the mixed consumption of alcohol and energy drinks.

My case study involves a 6 year old boy Daniel Sanchez. Sanchez has jet black hair and tanned skin. He is a mixture of Cuban and Mexican, his father is from Cuba and his mother is from Mexico. Sanchez lives in a suburban three bedroom house with both his parents and two older siblings. His mother works in a restaurant full time and his father is retired from the workforce. Sanchez has an elder brother that works with irrigation instillation while his second oldest brother stays at home. Right now Sanchez is in the first grade, his school being walking distance from his home. An in depth look into Sanchez’s current lifestyle will provide more information to help me

The Social Learning Theory explains how “violence is learned in the same way that anything else is learned; the process is no different”. This theory examines the ways in which people learn to behave aggressively or violently. Modeling, reinforcing, and imitating the behavior as well as the attitudes are ways in which people learn to act violently. Research show that they tend to act so when they are being rewarded for it, when they observe it, is victimized by it, and when they don’t develop strong enough connections with others. Burgess and Akers go into further detail about this by exploring the exposure to violent media, while Sutherland’s “Differential Association Theory” compares the pro-violence against the pro-social values.

Although a variety of factors are seen to influence alcohol consumption among students (especially college students), peer influence has surfaced to be one of the most dominant predictors of the initiation and continuation of alcohol use in an institution stetting (Borsari and Carey). Through the concept of social learning theory, it is clear that the effectiveness of peer influences is determined by peer relationships. Specifically, modeling and cognitive processes are able to describe how peer relation influences alcohol usage. Modeling occurs when an individual imitates or acquires new behaviors through observation of others (Maisto, Carey and Bradizza). Behaviors that are rewarded are more likely to be mimicked than those that are

As we know today, that Akers Social Learning Theory (SLT) is one of the central theories within criminology that helps us understand and explain what causes criminal and deviant behavior, as well as the “changes of understanding how they might be embraces socially, nonsocial, and cultural factors operating both to motivate and control criminal behavior and both to promote and undermine conformity” (“Empirical Status of”, n.d.). So, are there any types of limitation for Social Leaning Theory? This is what we will be discussing in this report.

Debster Sandoval, the oldest son of the Sandoval Family has just reached his 18th birthday. He is a taller, average athletically built young man with light skin, green eyes, and dark hair. The family are of middle class income and live in a single family home outside of Houston, Tx with access to a great public high school where Debster just graduated from. The family consists of father Elijah, mother Rachel, and middle school aged daughter Adrienne. Debster and his family have been studied since his infancy to see how different environmental factors effect the lifelong mental and physical growth of his motor skills, cognitive learning, and socio-emotional behavior.

1. Which theory of the development of gender differences do you think helps explain the most differences in genders? Why do you think this theory explains the most?

New Mexico Public Education Department (2009) has developed English Language Development Standards (ELD). The Pre K-12 ELD is based upon the World Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium’s model (2004, 2007). Each appears in two frameworks: Summative and Formative. The two frameworks can be used for planning curriculum, instruction, and assessment of English language learners. The common elements of the two frameworks are: 1). English development standards, 2). language domains, 3). grade level clusters, and 4). language proficiency levels. The formative strategy, in particular, is used to develop cultural and linguistic diversity within the state through instructional assessment activities, tasks and projects across the English language development standards.