1. Hitting and Educational Theories
By Scott Bruno

2. Scaffolding Changing level of support for learning
Instructor will adjust amount of guidance to fit the student’s performance

3. Observational Learning
Learning that involves acquiring skills, strategies, and beliefs by observing others
Four Steps-
Attention
Retention
Production
Motivation

4. Attention
Before students can produce a model’s actions, they must attend to what the model is doing or saying.
People who are warm, powerful, atypical people, are those who command more power

5. Retention
To reproduce a model’s actions, students must code the information and keep it in memory so that they retrieve it.
A players’ retention will be improved when coach’s give vivid, logical, and clear demonstrations.

6. Production
It will be harder for a a young child to reproduce these actions because of a lack of motor ability and understanding.
It will also be harder for a person who has never practiced this motion before to do it correctly the first time as opposed to someone who has practiced it

7. Motivation
Almost everyone is capable of the first three steps of observational learning however lack this motivation.
Teachers often award students with prizes and award for their motivation.

8. Swinging a Bat
Observational Learning and scaffolding are used at every practice
Higher levels involves less help

9. The End