Educational psychology

in your career because with this world of cutting edge technology there is always room to grow and to enhance your teaching abilities. “Teachers with high perceptions of educational technology self-skills have high perceptions of classroom management skills. This result may be attributed to the experience in the use of educational technology” (Varank & Ilhan, 2013). Classroom management is a very important aspect in running your classroom. We as educators must know we are here to create a…

Special Education Reform Education has evolved over the 100 year timeframe and special education has come a long way from where it began. However, there are still changes that are needed for special education. This paper gives an outlook on three major events in the history over the 100 years and how it has shaped and changed special education. It also discusses changes that still need to be made to continue to evolve. Three Important Moments No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left behind…

What does learning disabilities mean? It means several areas of functioning in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by unknown factors. Learning disabilities affect several people each day. Many try to be like their peers. There are several different levels of learning disabilities. Some are affected only when it comes to school subjects; others have permanent disabilities in all areas of life. There are many things to think about when it comes to learning…

In the course, Celebrate Thorough Reading, I had to reflect on a reading goal that was important to me. The goal that I chose was reading aloud to your students. Shared book reading has been linked to emergent literacy. With this being said, when teachers read to students they are leaning how to recognize letters and understand that print represents a spoken word (Duursma, Augustyn, Zuckerman, 2009). Shared reading is one of the important ways to teach children how to read and understand print…

will be included with the data gathered through the referral process and any additional assessments needed to determine eligibility. Determination of eligibility must not rely on a single measure, but consider all the information gathered in the educational evaluation report to determine special education and services. Most parents believe that a doctor’s diagnosis is enough for their child to receive services, unfortunately, it is not. IDEA allows data collected from RTI to be used in…

The British Military uses a variety of teaching techniques to its soldiers but predominately teaches in an explicit or direct instruction manner similar to its autocratic leadership stance. In contrast distance learning packages favour the use of problem based learning (Savin-Baden 2003, 92). Therefore just like the direct instruction teacher becomes a tutor in problem based learning, the military student in a WBDL package needs to adapt by developing skills for self-directed learning in order…

A response to intervention (RTI) team should consist of people who work directly with the student, and other important decision makers. These people may include: parents of the student, the special education teacher, the general education teacher, the principal, school psychologist, RTI coordinator, reading specialist, support staff, and speech and language specialist. The parents may be helpful for providing information about the student’s background and developmental history. Parents can also…

A study conducted by Boekaerts (2002) found, “Students’ motivational beliefs function as a frame that guides their thinking, feelings, and their action in a particular domain (Mensah and Atta, 2015 p. 21)”. If teachers have a better understanding of the emotional and academic support needed by their students during this transitional period, they can make adjustments to their teaching strategies, learning environment, structure, and student involvement, to best suit the needs of their students.…

Aha! Paper Coming into this course, I had many preconceived notions as to how reading what taught and how students responded to this instruction. I thought phonics was the key factor to teaching kids how to read, that nonfiction texts were meant solely for higher level reading, reading assignments were best determined based upon reading level only, answering questions after reading was best for comprehension, and that our current academic system fails to actually teach kids how to read.…

Therefore, building teacher capacity to deliver innovative and engaging curricula through professional development becomes a crucial element toward achieving educational goals (Hawley & Valli, 1999). This stream focuses on a shift from the traditional, one size fits all model of PD to an increasingly flexible, personalized, and technology driven approach to PD. Furthermore, this stream examines barriers that teachers…