Education Psychology Class

      On this weeks reading and resources we were presented with different concept such as motivation in leaning and teaching in chapter 12. In chapter 14 , teaching itself is talked about, and the focus of chapter 15 is classroom assessment, grading and testing. I would like to focus my blog on the topics presented in chapter 14.      Chapter 14 started out by introducing the qualities of an effective teacher. Planning was an important topic introduced at the beginning of the chapter. Planning is when a teacher creatively and with flexibility considers students backgrounds, interest, abilities and accommodations needed in order to properly lesson plan for the students.  Learning targets were also introduced , the book states that leaning targets include objectives, state goals, while making usage of flexible and creative teaching plans. It is emphasize that a teacher should consider different aspects when lesson planning such as Bloom's Taxonomy, dif...

This week's readings were on chapters 9, 10 and 11. Chapter 9 focuses on "complex cognitive processes" in regards to metacognition, problem solving, critical thinking,learning strategies, teaching for complex and transfer learning. Chapter 10 introduced  topics such as constrictuvism, learning environments, collaboration and cooperation along with designing adequate learning environments that embrace constructiveness practice. Chapter 11 gave us an introduction to wonderful topics such as the social cognitive theory, modeling as a result of observing,  and self regulating skills and theories. Chapter 10 introduces various forms of technology that can be integrated in the classroom setting to maximize learning time. For example an educator can  created a lesson and take advantage of the Flipped classroom strategy. Educators can make usage of pictures to better explain concepts to the young learners. in a flipped learning strategy, one has to stated the learning objecti...