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Aug 31, 2024
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PSY 281 - Educational Psychology Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: General The principles of psychology applied to classroom teaching, with emphasis on such topics as development, learning, motivation, evaluation, adjustment, and educational techniques and innovations. Competencies
- Describe basic concepts, principles, and theories related to educational psychology
- Define basic psychological concepts related to education.
- Identify psychological principles related to education
- Describe psychological theories that apply to learners and teaching.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the classroom teacher
- Identify elements of effective teaching
- Describe characteristics of effective teachers
- Summarize significant aspects of teaching as an art and as a science
- Apply research methods, experimental designs, and ethical guidelines to educational research
- Identify applications of basic research methodologies to the study of education and classroom behavior
- Explain basic research designs used in studying classroom behavior and education
- Summarize the basic ethical guidelines for conducting educational research
- Demonstrate an understanding of the literature of educational psychology
- Summarize information from standard texts, research journals, and popular media regarding educational psychology
- Paraphrase orally and in writing information from standard texts, research journals, and popular media regarding educational psychology
- Apply critical thinking and writing skills to educational psychology topics
- Analyze relevant developmental psychology concepts, principles, and theories as they apply to classroom teaching and learning
- Identify typical physical, cognitive, personal, and social development from preschool through high school
- Compare such theories of cognitive development as Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s as they apply to teaching and learning
- Describe the course of normal language development as it relates to education
- State the general characteristics of Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development as they apply to learners at different levels of the educational system
- Describe such theories as Kohlberg’s on the development of moral reasoning
- Relate knowledge of typical development at different ages to teaching practices
- Analyze individual, gender, and multi-cultural differences as they impact on learning and teaching
- Distinguish among multicultural concepts in teaching
- Summarize the arguments for and against bilingual education
- Explain the impact of socioeconomic/cultural factors on educational achievement
- Discuss the potential problems in categorizing and labeling students.
- Identify the methods, common practices, and implications of ability grouping
- Interpret the meaning of IQ test scores
- Apply appropriate teaching methods to the needs of disabled and exceptional students
- Demonstrate an understanding of behavioral and cognitive theories of learning as they apply to teaching and learning
- Identify the basic components of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive approaches to learning
- Select effective reinforcers for classroom behaviors and learning using such reinforcement principles as the Premack Principle
- Give examples of effective ways of dealing with inappropriate classroom behavior based on principles of operant and classical conditioning
- Explain how punishment can be used appropriately within the limits of its negative side effects
- Explain the sequence of events in information processing
- Summarize basic concepts of memory and forgetting
- Use the concept of metacognitive abilities to explain such teaching approaches as strategic learning
- Give examples of strategies for improving memory
- Translate learning principles into effective classroom teaching practices
- Relate theories of motivation to effective ways of enhancing motivation in learners
- Discuss theories of motivation from such perspectives as behavioral, social learning, cognitive and humanistic
- Use attribution theory to show how student explanations of success and failure influence motivation
- Demonstrate an understanding of strategies for increasing students’ motivation to learn
- Discuss the effects of teacher expectations and behaviors on students’ behaviors
- Demonstrate an understanding of effective classroom management techniques
- Relate classroom management goals to different levels of the educational system
- Summarize appropriate rules and procedures for classrooms at different levels of the educational system
- Explain suggestions for preventing classroom management problems
- Discuss different approaches for dealing with conflict between students and between teacher and student
- Evaluate different approaches to instructional planning
- Compare and contrast different types of instructional objectives
- Explain the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as it relates to instructional planning
- Describe the processes involved in using different teaching formats
- Generate different classroom arrangements based on different instructional functions
- Analyze basic teaching strategies for attaining educational objectives
- Analyze different methods for achieving effective teaching and learning
- Analyze such approaches to effective teaching and learning as direct instruction, mastery learning, and outcome based education
- Give examples of the characteristics of effective learners
- Select appropriate teaching methods for different learning goals and student abilities
- Identify guidelines for organizing instruction
- Evaluate different approaches to and uses of classroom evaluation, grading, and standardization testing
- Explain the relationship between measurement and evaluation
- Examine the uses and limitations of norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing
- Interpret basic terms, concepts, and types of scores related to standardized testing
- Explain the concepts of reliability and validity
- Compare and contrast such evaluation formats as essays, multiple-choice exams, and authentic assessments
- Give examples of criterion-referenced and norm-referenced grading systems
- Explain such approaches to communicating students’ grades as report cards and conferences
- Demonstrate effective academic self-discipline
- Meet the timelines for assigned project and evaluations
- Communicate effectively using accepted grammar, punctuation and spelling
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