The Importance Of Educational Psychology

Who am I as a learner? The learner profiles that not good at is communication as if I hate being in groups and socializing. One academic I’m not so amazing at is Math it makes me very very confusing…. But one that I’m great at is being a risk taker which means that you are confident about trying new everything , also standing up for what you believe. This relates to me being; i'm in sports I play soccer and i'm great at it…. but when i'm on the field I can be a risk taker and this is why, when…

literary narrative, and the humanities. Social Studies (25%)- Questions in this category are based on passages in the content areas of anthropology, archaeology, biography, business, economics, education, geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology. Natural Science (25%)- Questions are based on passages in the content areas of anatomy, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, geology, medicine, meteorology, microbiology, natural history, physiology, physics,…

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Situation Analysis It has always been a universal truth that academic achievement or (academic) performance is the outcome of education — the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has achieved their educational goals. When people hear about this term “academic performance” they often think of a person’s General Point Average (GPA). In some instances, one the other hand, several factors indicate a student’s academic success especially in the junior high…

Article Critique Wood, R. & Ashfield, J. (2008). The use of the interactive whiteboard for creative teaching and learning in literacy and mathematics: a case study. Br J Educ Technol, 39(1), 84- 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00703.x Introduction This paper aims at critiquing an article written by Ruth Wood and Jean Ashfield on the use of interactive whiteboards in a bid to enhance creative teaching and learning in literacy and mathematics. This piece will evaluate the strengths…

2.4 million times per month, there are teenage drivers that get behind the wheel and chose to drive while intoxicated (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). This is a major threat amongst teenagers in today’s society. Although it may seem as if driving drunk should not be such a prominent issue when taking into consideration all of the detrimental facts and statistics that go against it, B.F. skinner’s operant conditioning theory, Albert Bandura’s social learning theory and Piaget’s…

All of my life I have been involved in a sport or physical activity. The similarity between the sports I have learned to play and the way I was taught to learn in school are very much the same. I grew up playing softball and volleyball, which are both very detailed sports to play. With all different positions, regulations, and rules it is very much important to pay close attention while being taught how to play. It would have never been easy to learn the techniques by only watching a volleyball…

he was envisioning. Sometimes adult learning involves some directive education. There still exists some degree of dependence on other people such as instructors and professors who are acting as a guardian angel, in helping adults realize their educational…

Music and art are tools that can become a huge impact in a disabled child’s life when they are incorporated in the child’s everyday activities during their development as a child. The use of sound or auditory hearings as well as artistic assignments can be very helpful in order for the child to become more connected with the world through interaction with others. These children gain many new skills that assist them in being more united with others around them. Even though the utilization of art…

As Jean Piaget once said, “[t]he goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge, but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things”. Children have such a wealth of ideas inside of them, and the goal of every teacher, including myself, should be to inspire their students to share them with not only the class, but the world. In the novel Educating Esmé by Esmé Raji Codell, Esmé inspired her students to become…

Every person grows into having their own beliefs of the world and humans themselves. Having these different beliefs come from thinking about possible worlds and which possibilities of the world the person believes in. Alison Gopnik speaks more in depth of counterfactual thoughts and possible worlds in her essay, “Possible Worlds: Why Do Children Pretend?” Gopnik believes every person has the ability to think counterfactually of the past and the future. Those counterfactual thoughts lead to…