PSYC 3800 Lecture Notes - Albert Bandura, Lev Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud
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1: learning, teaching, and educational psychology: new teachers who have completed coursework in development and learning. Learning and teaching today are twice as likely to stay in teaching. Dramatic diversity: students today: by 2031 canada"s foreign-born population will increase from 20% to 25- Participation in religions other than christianity has doubled since 2006 (from 6 to 14%) and approx. 50% of people with religious affiliation other than christian identify themselves as muslim: currently, approx. 1 in 9 children in canada lives in poverty. 280,000 children were regular users of food banks, which represents increase of 86% since 1989: children in classrooms have diverse abilities and disabilities. Do teachers make a difference: for a while, some researchers suggested that wealth and social status, not teaching, were the major factors determining who learned in schools. What is good teaching: reflective: thoughtful and inventive.