Applying Educational Psychology

DEFINITION

Education:
Developing the capacities and potential of the individual so as to prepare that individual to be successful in a specific society or culture. From this perspective, education is serving primarily an individual development function.

DEFINITION

Education:
the process by which society transmits to new members the values, beliefs, knowledge, and symbolic expressions to make communication possible within society. In this sense, education is serving a social and cultural function.

DEFINITION Schooling:
Teaching and learning that takes place in formal environments

DEFINITION Psychology:
the scientific study of mind and behavior (or behavior and mental processes), especially as it relates to individual human beings

DEFINITION Educational Psychology:

Combination of psychology and education A distinct scientific discipline within psychology that includes both methods of study and a knowledge base

DEFINITION Educational Psychology:

Concerned primarily with understanding the processes of teaching and learning that take place within formal environments and developing ways of improving those methods Important topics include learning theories; teaching methods; motivation; cognitive, emotional, and moral development; and parent-child relationships

DEFINITION Learning:
relatively permanent change in an individual's behavior or behavior potential (or capability) as a result of experience or practice an internal change inferred from behavior

DEFINITION Learning:
can be compared with the other primary process producing relatively permanent change--maturation--that results from biological growth and development

DEFINITION Teaching:
The purposeful direction and management of the learning process

Educational Psychology
Is the scientific discipline that addresses the questions Why do some students learn more than others? What can be done to improve that learning?

Educational Psychology: A Foundation for Teaching

What is Educational Psychology? How to be a good teacher and a good teaching? The Research methods

What is educational Psychology?

Educational psychology is distinct from other branches of psychology because it has the understanding and improvement of education as its primary goal (Wittrock, 1992, p. 138). study what people think and do as they teach and learn a particular curriculum in a particular environment where education and training are intended to take place (Berliner,1992, p. 145). An academic definition would perhaps say that educational psychology is the study of learners, learning, and teaching.

What is educational Psych?

More understandings: the accumulated knowledge, wisdom, and seat-of-the-pants theory that teacher should possess to intelligently solve the daily problems of teaching. cannot tell teachers what to do, but it can give them the principles to use in making a good decision and a language to discuss their experiences and thinking.

What makes a good teacher, and good teaching?

Lets take a minute to remember the names of the best teachers about you ever had when you were in the preschool, primary school and secondary school? What was it about these teachers that make you remember them over the years? What effects did they have on you?

What makes a good teacherand good teaching?

warmth, humor, and the ability to care about people planning, hard work, and self-discipline leadership, enthusiasm, a contagious love of learning, and speaking ability But these qualities are not enough !!...

Good Teacher and Good Teaching

A good teacher are committed to their students. Dealing with a wide range of student ability and challenges understand their subjects and their students thinking Using new technologies and techniques appropriately to accomplish important goals, not just entertain the students. taking good care of the emotional needs of their students

Good Teacher and Good Teaching

In short, good teachers carefully plan and teach the basic procedures for living and learning in their classes. They can efficiently correct and collect homework, regroup students, give directions, distribute materials, and deal with disruptions etc.

Seven areas of professional knowledge an expert teachers know (Lee Shulman,1987) : The academic subjects they teach. General teaching strategies that apply in all subjects . The curriculum materials and programs appropriate for their subject and grade level. Subject-specific knowledge for teaching. Knowing the characteristics and cultural backgrounds of learners. The setting in which students . The goals and purposes of teaching.

As a good teacher, He/She needs

Knowing the subjects matters, and Teaching Skill. Mastering the Teaching Skills Effective instruction is not a simple matter of one person with more knowledge transmitting that knowledge to another. Effective instruction demands the use of many strategies.