The Importance Of Educational Psychology

Educational Philosophy What is my educational philosophy? In short it is a gumbo of education theory’s, founders, and roots that benefit the arts and encourages personal growth and opinion. I look to Rousseau for his learning environments, Montessori for his use of sensory skills to engage students, and Frobel for his focus on the arts. When it comes to roots, I take from many society’s like the Preliterate why emphasized on skills and identity, as well as the Greeks who created leaders and…

The achievement gap has been a continuous issue for some time now, meaning every student isn’t receiving the same kind of education as one another. Many parents have tried hard to get their child the best quality of education money can but them, but it is not always guaranteed. The “hidden curriculum”, quality of educators, and charter schools are the ones to blame. Many would assume that every school is alike and teach the same curriculum, but Jean Anyon has proved otherwise. In ‘Social Class…

Josseline Portillo Professor Ishigaki Music 9 23 October 2017 Article Analysis- Totally Tuned In The music article Totally Tuned In by Michael J. Romick from the Virginia Journal of Education talks about how the use of music to teach English can be extremely beneficial to students by bettering and understanding the material. Romick uses instances from his own experiences, knowledge, and extensive career in teaching to talk about the great benefits that music has in the learning and retention…

As a theatre artist, I have to be aware of the communities issues so that a main focus can be about discussing and hopefully promoting change within these issues. As well as the importance of noticing what the community responses to the issues and what issues the community generally stay silent on. Noticing this importance of community within theatre for social change has really made me examine what issues Ithaca College needs to face and needs help examining, which can be a focus for this class…

Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath analyzes six criteria that make an idea stick. Two of those are Emotional, which motivates the target audience to care about the Central Message (Heath, Volpe), and Stories, which motivates the target audience to take action on the central message (Heath, Volpe). In the text, “Pedagogy and political commitment: a comment” by Bell Hooks argues that college english teachers should educate for liberation to allow students to learn to think critically and…

Transformation is a concept overlooked by many but it is extremely necessary to the development of society and individuality. Freire uses this idea throughout his article to explain the extreme need for students to learn in a way that empowers them to transform the world, not just simply live in it. There are problems faced in both the world as a whole, and UConn specifically, that cannot be addressed without individuals who are willing to bring about change. The model of the new recreation…

The following activity comes from chapter six of the book Puntos de Partida whose authors are Becher Dorwick and Isabelli Pérez-Gironés. Chapter six is about the seasons and the weather; one of the topic lessons from the chapter is “Ser and Estar.” The following activity is being designed to help student to learn the use of ser and estar in an appropriate context. Puntos de Partida has being designed for students who are in their first years of learning a new language in this case Spanish;…

GEOG 1004: Introduction to Human Geography Mandatory Assignment: Disruptive Demographics Student Name: _Alyn Wakefield__________ Student Number: _____906111600______ Questions: Q1. In the article, Six Disruptive Demographic Trends: What Census 2010 Will Reveal, James Johnson Jr. and John Kasarda outline a number of ‘disruptive demographic trends’ using data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Internal Revenue Service, and other government agencies/sources. Please…

As we’ve discussed heavily in class, as time goes on, new innovations are created in our history as people and cultures progress through the years. We’ve looked at objects and ideas that have seen advancements whether due to technology, or an advancement in thinking. This remains true when looking through forms of art and looking at Christian Schussele’s Men of Progress in 1862, and Edward Sorel’s People of Progress crafted in 1999. From a very basic visual perspective, there is a stark…

Socio cognitive and self-efficacy theories The Bandura’s socio cognitive theory is the point of departure for many studies in the field of education, particularly in terms of self-efficacy. All researchers have scrutinized, established, looked at, and continue to see self-efficacy has a pillar of student achievement. Based on Bandura’s definition of conscientiousness for the human being, that characteristic “involves purposive accessing and deliberative processing of information for selecting…