Educational Psychology

Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes Summary: Chapter 9 by Woolfolk goes over learning strategies. This chapter gives details that there are five key principles that students need to know in order to have positive learning strategies in the classroom. The principles include, students knowing different strategies, students knowing how to use the strategies and students having background knowledge of what they are studying (Woolfolk, 345). Woolfolk lists a couple other areas that students should be succeeding in as well in order to learn in a positive way. She lists the following, "planning and focusing attention, organizing and remembering, comprehension, cognitive monitoring, and practice" (Woolfolk, 345). The final main ideas that is shared in chapter 9 is problem solving. Woolfolk goes into the idea of how important it is for students to develop their own sense of problem solving.  Reflection: This was yet again another very interesting chapter by Woolfolk. Whenever I ...

https://youtu.be/NM0M-rSrKmA I was able to interview my mom for this specific interview. I am fortunate enough to have someone so close to me be a role model for me as I go through this educational process. Listening to her talk so often about her classroom and what goes on during the process of creating lesson plans, making materials, succeeding immensely, and even failing at some points.                                 When I was creating the questions I wanted to ask, I wanted to think a little out of the box from a normal interview for a teacher. I always hear how her students like or dislike her material, as well as how well something went that day in her room. She is a Speech Pathologist, so the questions were going to be answered, at times, a little differently. When dealing with consequences, she has to notify the stud...

Chapter 7: Behavioral Views of Learning Summary: This chapter starts with explaining that learning takes place in all aspects of our lives. A big part of learning takes place through experience. It can happen in the classroom and also outside the classroom. . Following that, it explains Pavlov and classical conditioning. The chapter explains how through classical conditioning, things begin to affect one another. Following classical conditioning, punishment and reinforcers are explained. Chapter 7 defined reinforced and punishment as the following, “A reinforcer is any consequence that strengthens the behavior that it follows, and a punishment weakens or suppresses the behavior”. Chapter 7 then talks about Applied Behavior Analysis. Steps are provided for teachers to be able to use it they are struggling with behavior in the classroom. Reflection: I find it very interesting to apply classical conditioning and behavior analysis to a classroom setting. Learning about these ideas and exper...

Chapter 4: Learner Differences and Learning Needs Summary Chapter 4 begins by discussing labeling. This chapter goes into the idea that there are many different views of labeling and how they can be taken in the wrong way by many. Labels can also be mistaken for an explanation. A label can explain what a disability is, but should not define any sort of disability. The next part of chapter 4 discussed how using people first language is a way to show respect for individuals without labeling them by their disability. Following the discussion on the importance of person first language, chapter 4 goes over what intelligence is. The chapter explains that in order for someone to be labeled with intelligence they would need to show one or more of the following characteristics, “the capacity to learn, the knowledge that has been acquired, and the ability to adapt to new situations and new environments”. Finally, the chapter goes over what an IQ score is and how it can be interpreted.  Re...

Chapter 1: Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology Summary In chapter 1, Woolfolk discusses how important teacher-student relationships are and how researchers came to conclusion that children who began kindergarten and had a strong relationship with their teachers, had a more positive outcome both with their academics and behavior. Woolfolk discusses the different types of teaching as poor and good teaching and gives examples of those. She talked about how poor teaching can affect a student in many negative ways.  Reflection Chapter 1 demonstrates how important it is to show a student how much they deserve to be in that class. No matter what they have been through, or how much schooling they have had before, they should all be taught the same way and with the same respect. I think it is so important to have a class where students feel comfortable and welcome in the room. Like Woolfolk describes the teachers with good teaching in the book, I hope to be the class and the tea...

Trinity Christian College Field Experience Form Context for Learning  Description of School and Students About the School Where You Are  Observing or doing Field Experience School Name and City:  Type of School: Elementary school, Middle School, High School, or Other:     Elementary   Setting: Urban, Suburban, or Rural: Suburban Write your responses to the three questions below in paragraph form. 1.      List any special features of the school or classroom setting (e.g., themed magnet, classroom aide, bilingual,  co-taught with a special  education t eacher, pull-out program). This class has multiple features that make it a unique setting. It is a summer school class for early childhood special education. The head of the classroom is a special education teacher. The class ranges from 3-year-olds to 6-year-olds. It is very different and new for me! There are some teachers that come in and work w...