BUÑAG, JOHN LLOYD H.

2nd Year-BSEd/Mathematics
Instructor: Ms. Maria Len Rica Nacario Maranan
Activity 2 Midterm Educ 5
Topic: Neo-Behaviorism

A. Instructions: Choose a topic in your field of specialization. Suggest some teaching strategies and
applications on how you could reflect the following concepts from Tolman and Bandura. The table
below will help you to organize your thoughts.

Topic/Subject Matter: MULTIPLYING BINOMIALS

Grade Level: GRADE 10

Cognitive /Principles Teaching Strategies/Applications

Cognitive Map  I will teach the topic by going
through a step-by-step process. I
will teach it in the simplest way I
can. Breaking down the process
piece by piece so that they can
easily retain the knowledge so that
when they are the ones who will
solve it, they can recall every step in
their mind.

Latent Learning  I will show my students how to

solve it, beginning with the simplest
problem and progressing to more
They will just sit and follow along
while I am solving. After my
demonstration, I will give them
some problems to answer.

Learning may be acquired vicarously.
Learning takes place by imitating a model.
 In this principle, I will give the student
who answered my problem plus points.
In this sense, his or her other
classmates will exert effort so they can
receive their plus points too.
 Students who understand the
concept behind solving the problem
(fast learners) will be given
problems and will answer them in
front of the class. Once they
correctly answer the problem, it will
give motivation to slow learners so
that they can also make it. So the
fast learners are the models they
 imitate.

Self-efficacy  In this, I will give them tasks and

assessments so that I can monitor if
they really learn the topic. Through
this, I can also determine if my
teaching is effective, and if not, I will
think of teaching strategies to make
the topic easier for them.

B. Challenge (Maximum of 5 sentences each item)

1. How should seasoned teachers help in increasing the beginning teachers’ level of self-efficacy?

 A seasoned teacher can give some advice for the beginning teacher, like having mastery
of the subject matter and love and passion for teaching. Mastery of the subject matter is
necessary for a teacher, since it can help a teacher demonstrate properly what he or
she is teaching. It will also help a teacher to think of various ways in which he or she can
make the subject much easier to learn for the students. Moreover, love and passion for
teaching are also important; a seasoned teacher can share his or her experience with a
beginning teacher on how he or she fell in love with teaching. Lastly, by giving some tips
that the seasoned teacher gained from attending a lot of seminars, she can advise the
beginning teacher to attend various seminars too.

2. If you were to critic the concepts postulated by Tolman and Bandura, what may be their
weakness?

 Honestly, I don’t see any weaknesses. In fact, their theories helped in understanding
how humans learn and acquire knowledge, which is actually true: humans learn by
observing and copying others.

3. How do the theories of Tolman and Bandura aid in developing the characteristics of the 21 st
century learners?

 Their theories serve as proof that people can actually learn by just observing and imitating
others. Their theories also serve as clarification on how people acquire knowledge from their
surroundings, starting from infancy up to adulthood.