It was a Friday; the end of another busy week and an excited teacher proudly announces to his students, “Class, I have good news for you today. There will be no homework for the weekend. You can spend time with your family, enjoy…
If teaching in a ‘regular classroom’ is a challenge, imagine how much more challenging would teaching a class with an exceptional child be.The PSYC 315 class had the opportunity to explore some of the principles and skills required to help…
The following points were suggested by students in the EDUC375 class (Psychological Environment for Learning), Second Semester 2006-07 batch, as being the most unpleasant turnoffs when it comes to working in a group. The list consists of…
Students working on ‘the stages of group development’ (inventing their own model) It’s not easy after all…but the juice is worth the squeeze! “we didn’t get the table…but that ain’t stopping us from developing our own model…we will do it…
Effective problem-solvers engage in the following steps… Identify the problem (awareness of the problem and the ability to define the problem concretely) Possible difficulties to engage in this step? ‘Not in the habit’ Lack background…
Belief about intelligence and knowledge affects academic performance of learners (thinking and learning) Two types of intelligence : Fixed (entity theory) Changeable (incremental theory) The type of belief learners hold about intelligence…
1. Anticipate and prepare for moments of conflict in the classroom (mentally, spiritually, and physically). Ineffective classroom managers are those who take chances by not anticipating and preparing ahead of time for possible clashes…
Self-esteem : Self-esteem refers to general feelings of self-worth or self-value. Self-efficacy : Self-efficacy is belief in one’s capacity to succeed at tasks. General self-efficacy is belief in one’s general capacity to handle tasks….
Chapter 5: Retrieval Processes (Summary) Encoding Specificity Principle (ESP) Memory is enhanced when information available at encoding is also available at retrieval Context – affects both encoding and retrieval Context effects…
Retrieval refers to the processes through which we recover items from memory (remembering?) Note : Encoding and storage are necessary to acquire and retain information. But the crucial process in remembering is retrieval , without which we…