EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Educational Psychology
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Curriculum, what schools should teach, research methods, how to manage a school and teaching as a craft or art. The rise of public education created a need for a systematic and rational understanding of learning and teaching. Educational psychology originated as the application of scientific research methods and psychological theories to education. Borrowed methods and theories from other social sciences such as anthropology and sociology. Relationship of educational psychology to psychology and education. Educational psychology does more than apply the methods and theories of psychology to education: School psychologists are registered professionals who work in school. School psychologists give diagnostic test and off psychological counseling to students. Knowledge of the subjects they teach, knowledge of general teaching, of their students, and a disposition toward caring and respect for students, organization and communication. Think back over situations to analyze what they did and why and to consider how they might improve.