Educational Psychology

William M. Bauer, Ph.D. CRC

McDonough-Marietta College

Teachers, Teaching, and

Educational Psychology
Chapter 1

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 Overview

 What Is Good teaching?

 The Ultimate Goal of Teaching: Lifelong
Learning
 The Role of Educational Psychology
 How This Book Can Help You Learn

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 Concept Map for
Chapter 1
How This Book
What Is Good
Can Help You
Teaching?
Learn.

Teachers, Teaching,
and Educational
Psychology

The Role of Ultimate Goal

Educational of Teaching
Psychology
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 Teacher’s Casebook
 Award for excellence in teaching
 You are on the committee
 Lots of staff interest in the award
 Political? Or…
 Valid award for excellent teaching
 What is good teaching?

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 What Is Good Teaching?
 Bilingual first
grade
 Suburban sixth
grade
 Two advanced
math classes

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 Connect and Extend
 Describe the most effective teacher you
ever had.
 Any examples in the news of effective
teachers?
 See chapters 12 and 13 for connections.
 Check the research.
 Consider the ‘Connect and Extend’
sidebars throughout the text.
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 Expert Knowledge
 Content
 General teaching strategies
 Curriculum
 Subject-specific knowledge
 Learners
 Settings
 Goals and purposes of teaching
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 Reflection Question

Think of an ‘expert teacher’ you

had in the past. How many of
the ‘expert knowledges’ did that
teacher demonstrate on a
consistent basis?

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 Reflection Questions

Compare and contrast expert and

novice teachers. Use examples
from your experience that
illustrate your comparisons and
contrasts.

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 Teaching: Artistry, Technique,
and a Lot of Work!

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 Art versus Science
 Teaching as a
science: effective
techniques
 Teaching as an
art: reflective,
inventive
 Teaching as art
and science
combined
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 A Perspective on the Art
versus Science Question

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 Where the world ceases to be the
stage for personal hopes and desires,
where we, as free beings, behold it
in wonder, to question and to
contemplate, there we enter the
realm of art and science. If we trace
out what we behold and experience
through the language of logic, we
are doing science...
continued
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 ...if we show it in forms whose
interrelationships are not accessible
to your conscious thought but are
intuitively recognized as meaningful,
we are doing art. Common to both is
the devotion to something beyond
the personal, removed from the
arbitrary.

Albert Einstein
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 The Role of
Educational Psychology
 Understanding and
improvement of instruction
 What people think and do as
they teach and learn
 Solving the everyday problems

of education
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 Would Teaching Be a Good
Career for Me?

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 Common Concerns
 Classroom discipline
 Motivating students
 Accommodating differences
 Evaluating student work
 Dealing with parents
 “Reality shock”
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 The Ultimate Goal of Teaching:
Life Long Learning
 Self-regulated
learning
 Knowledge

 Motivation

 Volition

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 Common Sense versus
Research

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 Common Sense?
 Taking turns in primary reading
class.
 Classroom management: student
movement.
 Skipping grades for bright students.

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 Research

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 Overview of Research
 Descriptive research
 Ethnography

 Participant observation

 Case studies

 Correlation

 Experimental research
 Causal

 Manipulative

 Principles and theories

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 -.54
Correlations .83
-.07
 Strength and direction .96

 Size of number is the strength

 The sign (+ or -) is the direction
 Positive = same direction
 Negative = opposite directions
 Range is -1.00 to +1.00
 Does NOT indicate cause

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 Experimental Research
 Comparable groups of subjects
 Random assignment of subjects
 Treatment
 Measurement after treatment
 Statistically significant
 Principle
 Theory
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 Reflection Question
Students in a classroom are
being divided into two groups
to test a new teaching method.
They are assigned to the
groups by drawing numbers
from a hat. What kind of
research is being used?
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 How this book can
help you learn.

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 How this book can help you learn:
 Getting ready to learn:
 Outline
 Overview
 “What would you do?”
 Aids to understanding:
 Checkpoints
 Summary

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 How this book can help you learn:
 Applying the knowledge:
 “What would you do?”
 Guidelines
 Point/counterpoint
 Becoming a professional
 Becoming a good teacher

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 Summary
 What Is Good Teaching?
 The Ultimate Goal of Teaching:
Lifelong Learning
 The Role of Educational Psychology
 How This Book Can Help You Learn

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 Review Questions
 What do expert teachers know?
 What are the artistic and scientific
aspects of teaching?
 What are the concerns of beginning
teachers?
 Describe self-regulated learning.

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 Review Questions
 What is Educational Psychology?
 Describe descriptive statistics.
 What are correlations?
 What are experimental studies?
 Distinguish between principles and
theories.

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 One of Bill’s Stories before we
leave.

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