Understanding Individual Differences
A teacher must deal with a group of students in the classroom with caution, because the characteristics of each student is different. Educational psychology can help teachers provide guidance to students, evaluate learning outcomes, and select appropriate learning strategies and methods based on each student's uniqueness, learning style, and development level. Educational psychology is important for effective teaching performance in schools by helping teachers understand different students in the learning environment.
3. Understanding Individual Differences
A teacher must deal with a group of students in the classroom with caution,
because the characteristics of each student is different.
Provide guidance to students
Guidance is the kind of assistance to students to solve problems they
encounter. Knowledge of educational psychology allows teachers to provide
educational and vocational guidance necessary for students at different ages.
Evaluate Learning Outcomes
Educational psychology can help in developing the evaluation of student learning that is
more just, both in the technical evaluation, compliance with the principles
of evaluation and determine the results of evaluations.
Selection of Learning Strategies and Method
Educational psychology can assist in determining the strategy or method of learning, and
able to relate to the uniqueness of the individual, the type of learning and learning styles
and levels of development being experienced by the learner.
4. Additional Information
Plato and Aristotle. Grinder traces the
origins of Educational Psychology to Plato
who believed that all knowledge is innate
at birth and is perfectible by experiential
learning during growth. Aristotle, Plato's
student, was the first to observe that
"association“ among ideas facilitated
understanding and recall.
The History of
Educational Psychology
Educational
Psychology
It is the application of psychological principles in
the field of education. By applying the principles
and techniques of psychology, it tries to study
the behavior and experiences of the pupils
Nature of Educational Psychology
Edward L. Thorndike:educational psychologist in the modern
sense of the term is Edward L. Thorndike. Almost his entire
academic life was spent at Teachers College, Columbia
University, where for over 40 years he labored on problems of
educational psychology.
Who is the founder of educational psychology?
Psychology is intimately connected with education. It is
inseparable. Psychology is the study of human behavior
and education is the process of modifying human
behavior. Educational psychology deals with human behavior and its
modification through learning.
Relationship between education and psychology?
Psychologists working in the field of education
study how people learn and retain knowledge.
They apply psychological science to improve the
learning process and promote educational success
for all students.
Why do we study educational psychology?
5. In Conclusion, Educational Psychology is very important to teachers
and it should be highly embraced for effective performance in schools.
Teachers are now able to understand different students and pupils in
the learning environment.
conclusion
6. SCHOOL OF
THOUGHT
BEHAVIORISM THEORY
Reseach for Behaviorism Theory
In the early 1930s at Harvard University, B. F. Skinner carried out a series of
carefully controlled and inductively oriented experiments on the behavior of
individual laboratory rats (e.g., Skinner, 1938, 1956). These experiments served
as the basis of the scientific field later called “the experimental analysis of
behavior.” As the field developed over the years, a system of science developed
with it. Behaviorism is a perspective on learning that focuses on changes in
individuals' observable behaviors—changes in what people say or do. ... If you
are teaching, you will need to attend to all forms of learning in students, whether
inner or outward.
Why I have Chosen this?.
Justification
To truly get the most out of this career option you have to enjoy spending time
with other people, oftentimes children or individuals with learning
disabilities.And as a psychologists we working in the field of education study how
people learn and retain knowledge. And apply psychological science to improve
the learning process and promote educational success for all students.
As emotional issues, attitudes, motivation, self-regulation, behaviour and self-
esteem all contribute to learning.