Teacher Change and Social Learning Theory

 To scaffold teacher inclusion of scientific discourse and inquiry inclusion in their practice, according to social learning theory they must:

1. Attention – in order for an individual to learn something, they must pay attention to the features of the modeled behavior.
2. Retention – humans need to be able to remember details of the behaviour in order to learn and later reproduce the behavior.
3. Reproduction – in reproducing a behavior, an individual must organize his or her responses in accordance with the model behavior. This ability can improve with practice.
4. Motivation – there must be an incentive or motivation driving the individual’s reproduction of the behaviour. Even if all of the above factors are present, the person will not engage in the behaviour without motivation.

Julian Rotter suggests that the effect of one's behavior impacts people's desire to engage in that behavior, prefering positive results to negative.  His take on social learning theory says that one's behavior is not just influenced by social modeling and connection, but also by environmental factors.

References
•Rotter, J.B. (1954). Social Learning and Clinical Psychology. Prentice-Hall
•Bandura, A. (1977). Social Learning Theory. General Learning Press.
•The Social Learning Theory of Julian B. Rotter