1. Good teachers:
Are committed to their students.
Deal with a wide range of student abilities and
challenges.
Adapt instruction and assessment to students’
needs.
Take care of the emotional needs of their
students, propping up sagging self esteem and
encouraging responsibility.
Carefully plan and teach the basic procedures for
living and learning in their classes.
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3. It is a distinct discipline with its own theories,
research methods, problems and techniques.
Educational psychology focuses on the study of
learning outcomes, student attributes, and
instructional processes directly related to the
classroom and the school, such as amount of
instructional time or individual differences in
school learning.
4. Educational Psychology research focus on child
and adolescent development; learning and
motivation-including how people learn different
academic subjects such as reading or
mathematics; social and cultural influences on
learning; teaching and learning; and
assessment, including testing. (Alexander &
Winne, 2006)
5. For students who are or expect to be teachers,
it is the accumulated knowledge, wisdom, and
theory that every teacher should possess to
intelligently solve the daily problems of
teaching.
Educational psychology 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.
6. Help gather information for teachers and
parents when students have academic or
behavioral problems.
Assist by evaluating students' thinking abilities
and assessing individual strengths and
weaknesses.
Together with parents and teachers, they
formulate plans to help students learn more
effectively.
7. Work mostly in elementary and secondary
school classrooms.
May work in other settings such as colleges,
consulting organizations, corporations,
industry, the military, and religious
institutions.
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9. The goals of educational psychology are to
understand and to improve the teaching and
learning processes.
Educational psychologists develop knowledge
and methods.
They examine what happens when someone
teaches something to someone else in some
setting.
