This course studies the
ways in which psychological knowledge can be applied to teaching and learning.
The course defines what educational psychology is
and that educational psychology emphasizes the study of the mental processes
and behaviors associated with human learning and instruction. The nature of the
learners and learning, the characteristics of effective teaching and how the
nature of the classrooms affects learning will be reviewed. During the course,
the instructor and students will look together on how educational psychologists
study a wide range of phenomena that are associated with learning, both in the
laboratory and in the classroom. The individual differences, intelligence and
mental ability, nature and types of learning, theories of learning, motivation
and learning, the teacher personality and the student learning, handling
students with disability, evaluation of student learning and classroom
management will also be discussed during the course. Two main textbooks are the
foundations of the main learning in this course. These are: Fetsco,
T., McClure, J. (2005), pages 1-24… and Seifert, K., & Sutton, R. (2009), pages
1-373—see
the details of these textbooks in the References/Resources section of this
course syllabus.
- Teacher: Ndahayo Claver