Educational psychology

difficult to recognize the difference between the two. This article gave the clear steps to help assess students in this situation. It acknowledged both their different cultural background as well as their different educational background. Assessing students with different cultural and educational backgrounds is a very detailed processed and must be done correctly to be effective. This affects the field of exceptional student education because it gives these educators a big responsibility to…

In regards to providing a Free Appropriate Public Education to students with disabilities I feel like my district, Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools does an excellent job. First and foremost, we are an inclusive district and provide services for all students regardless of a disability and offer a continuum of services throughout the district. For instance, each elementary and middle school has a specialty so that one or two types of disabilities are serviced in a particular building. This…

To some individuals teaching sounds glamorous; the idea of empowering young students with knowledge can be an extremely rewarding career, but it is an arduous job. Teachers have curriculum requirements and must prepare students for the multitude of rigorous tests that they will take, which ultimately reflect on the teacher. Teachers have students that represent a broad spectrum of society. This diverse range of students can include students that have language problems, financial problems,…

Positive Effects of Restricting Student Note-Taking in a Capstone Psychology Course: Reducing the Demands of Divided Attention in the Classroom’s purpose of the study was to compare between the students do without the note-taking duty and note-taking duty in the classroom. The hypothesis was the elimination of the of the note-taking duty would allow the student to be involved more in the classroom discussion and be more motivated to learn something new. The theory of this experiment, in general,…

learning varies in all households and is heavily influenced by their home life and parental involvement, technology usage and socioeconomic status. Influences in a student learner’s life helps ensure their continued learning and growth in an educational environment.…

A classroom challenge I find most difficult would be my Social Welfare class. My instructors style is strictly reading from the slides without visuals or activities to get me involved in the topic. I find this difficult for me because I am a kinaesthetic learner, meaning that I learn best if I am involved in the lecture ( by activities, class discussion, demonstrations, games, etc) Being a kinaesthetic learner I have realized that I am a hands on person. University is challenging for me because…

The purpose of education is not only to inform people on the history of all different subjects, but enables us to help others. Without education there’s a big potential of separation of nationalities based on the amount of knowledge one nation could have, we may not realise it but education is a huge reason why separation of race isn’t as big as it could potentially be. Also, this gives us a general knowledge of the world, which not only stops us from repeating history, but allows us to evolve…

so much it over uses it. Most of the United States seems to agree that standardized testing is important, it is so important that is the student do well in the tests the school or teacher might get extra money and reputation. Because of this the educational purpose is lost, and the schedule for learning is structured around how well one passes a test. On the contrast “The [Finnish] curricula are very much focused on critical thinking and problem solving, project-based learning, and learning to…

over the past couple months. It has been a wonderful experience and has shown me a lot of great examples of what we have been reviewing and learning in class. I have turned this into a personal field trip by taking note of the many different and educational experiences that have been going on within my first grade classroom. I have gone through what we have learned in ELED 304 and picked some of the vocab and terms that have been shown or expressed during my personal field trip. One of the…

Factors that contribute to the belief that ableism continues to exist within educational programs include the general atmosphere that many in a society adopt when discussing regulation and conformity in schools, the way disability is defined that may make it an external force not an internal trait, and barriers that may be set up in…