PSYC 3800 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Working Memory, White Matter, Trust Law
12 Oct 2018
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PSYC 3800
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
PSYC 3800 WEEK 1 NOTES
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Learning, teaching and educational psychology
• learning and teaching today
o what are classrooms like today
▪ dramatically diverse
• race
• ethnicity
• language
• economic level
o what evidence is there that teachers make a difference
▪ teacher student relationships
▪ teacher preparation and quality
• good teaching
o what is it
▪ 3 classrooms
• multilingual grade 1 class
o understand how issues of language and culture influence
hildre’s learig so that the do’t isiterpret
childre’s learig ad ehaior
• suburban grade 6 class
o generate a list of rights and responsibilities for the class
• advanced math class
o clarify suggestions
o elaborate on some
o help students improve others
▪ summary
• commitment to students
• adapt istrutio ad assesset to studet’s eeds
• use new technologies and techniques appropriately
• take care of the emotional needs of their students
• be reflective
o think back over situations to analyze what they did and
why
o consider how they might improve learning for their
students
o how does differentiated instruction help
▪ goes beyond accommodation
• takes advantage of diversity, instead of ignoring it
o accounts for different
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▪ abilities
▪ knowledge
▪ challenges
o instruction meets subject and student needs
▪ enables all learners to participate in the same
activity
o what are the concerns of beginning teachers
▪ maintaining discipline
▪ motivating students
▪ accommodating differences among students
▪ ealuatig studet’s ork
▪ dealing with parents
▪ getting along with other teachers
• educational psychology
o what is it’s role
▪ in the beginning
▪ today
▪ common sense?
• taking turns
• helping students
• skipping grades
• obvious answers
o using research to understand and improve learning
▪ types of studies
• descriptive
o collect detailed info about specific situations using
observation, surveys, interviews, recordings or a combo of
both
▪ approaches
• ethnography
o studying naturally occurring events
in the life of a group
• participant observation
o researcher becomes participant to
better understand life in that group
• case study
o in depth investigation of one person
or situation
• correlational
o indicate both the strength and direction of a relationship
between 2 events or measurements
▪ strength
• 1 to -1
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