The Importance Of Educational Psychology

For Part 1 of this paper, I made a concept map on a Prezi that outlines the six main concepts of the class, the subparts of each concept, and applications to a classroom setting. The six topics, although all different aspects of educational psychology, interact and combine when applied to a classroom setting. Reflecting on my past experiences, I see how knowledge of each concept, both individually and in interaction with other concepts, can enhance one’s teaching. As I was teaching private…

view my actions from the student’s viewpoint; however, I am not certain that I contemplated how my values and morals were influencing my behaviors in the classroom. Therefore, the discussions in this course and the readings, particularly in School Psychology and Social Justice, presented me with a new perspective on persistently evaluating myself to provide fair…

After family, school is the other place where a child spend time. And it is expected from the educational system to teach the children. These institutions are not just responsible for their academic growth. Because the educational institutions, along with the family, is a major influence in children's socio-personal development. Besides cognitive development, schooling also involves appropriate socio-personal development (i.e., self-reliance, self-discipline, taking initiative, independence of…

Educating the Whole Child: Where Have the Arts Gone Sir Ken Robinson, Professor Emeritus, author, educator, and public speaker advising on the importance of the Arts in schools to foster creativity in children, was videotaped at a TED conference where he asked the question, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” The overall message is that the creative spark is being educated out of our children in public schools. Robinson states, “Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should…

Introduction As a graduate student embarking on this journey in school psychology in hopes to become an active professional that can aid in the advancement of the field, there seems to be an overwhelming amount of information readily available via the internet. However, how can one sort through what is relevant, useful, helpful and most importantly accurate information that is not misleading to you and to others? Although there is a plethora amount of information and resources to choose from…

There are several factors in a child’s life that can prohibit them from understanding a certain concept. These factors can stem from cultural differences to children living in low-income housing areas, or to children with physical and mental disabilities or handicaps. It is vital for teachers to be sensitive and aware of how to handle students of diversity. Music is a great way to help ease the diversity strain. One way to help is for teachers to get to know their students. Simply knowing their…

teaching and includes intensive learning (i.e. drill) that involves repetition for five or more times of particular behaviors in the same condition to improve long-term memory. 2. Incidental teaching or natural environment training (NET) relies on the importance of providing a real-life meaning for the skills that a child is learning by using settings naturally used by the child as those settings facilitate generalization of learned skills to everyday situations. In this strategy, the…

Article Critique: Ecological Approaches to Organizational Consultation and Systems Change in Educational Settings Per Burns, Warmbold-Brann, & Zaslofsky (2015) Ecological theory was created by Urie Bronfenbrenner in the 1970’s. Per Meyers, Meyers, Graybill, Proctor, & Huddleston (2012) Bronfenbrenner proposed that a child’s development in influenced by the systems around the child as the center. A breakdown of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model is as follows. The microsystem included the…

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“Constructivism and Social Constructivism in the classroom” in the scope of this course. In the following sections, I will explain the meaning and the basics of constructivism theory, the origin of it and the starting point of the theory. In addition, importance of constructivism theory will be discussed. Furthermore, the supporters of constructivism, the advantages and disadvantages of constructivism, and the critics about constructivism will be analyzed. Finally, the differences between…