Educational Psychology Blog

After 5 fast-paced and intense weeks of AEDU 303, I finally bring to you the final blog post of this class. Week 5 featured the reading of chapters 12, 14 and 15, along with our final project for this class. Just as a lot of these weeks were, it was hectic with the holiday season upon us but nonetheless I got it done. Chapter 12 was Motivation in Learning and Teaching , where a variety of topics relating to the title were discussed. Among them were topics like motivation, goal orientations, needs and interests. Chapter 14 was Teaching Every Student where many important things like research on teaching, lesson planning and teaching approaches were discussed in depth. The final chapter assigned was Classroom Assessment, Grading and Standardized Testing . This chapter was familiar to me and especially interesting because I wrote my research paper on standardized testing. This chapter was a nice refresher and also added some interesting information that I did not pick up in my independant ...

Ah, the holiday season, isn't it wonderful? Just as with the Thanksgiving module, it was hard to find time to cram everything in, with all of the festivities of this wonderful time of year. Nonetheless, I bring you the newest edition in this blog, as I sit in my room/office, listening to football and enjoying cup of coffee. Enjoy! Week 4 came with three more interesting chapters of reading from our Woolfolk text; chapters 9, 10 and 11 to be exact. Chapter 9 was Complex Cognitive Processes  and this chapter most held my attention, which I will elaborate more on later. This chapter explained metacognition, learning strategies, problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and transfer. Chapter 10 titled, The Learning Sciences and Constructivism , did not cover as many topics as the chapter before, but went into more detail on its topics. Learning Sciences are defined as, "an interdisciplinary science of learning based on research in psychology, education, computer science, ph...

Happy Monday everybody! This classroom management interview is going to be a tad different than the typical interview intended for the assignment. My interviewee is Suzan Hasan-Perez, an independent Speech Language Pathologist and co-founder of S&Y Speech Therapy. She works in a variety of settings, including schools, nursing homes, early intervention and home health. Today we sat down and had a talk about her experience working in the school setting. To avoid any confusion, I would like to mention that all of my questions are prefixed with "J:" and all of her answers are prefixed with "S:". Happy reading! J:  What are your main goals and focus, as a speech pathologist S: My goals are to provide competent, effective, and reliable speech therapy services in order to help my client in the academic setting achieve functional academic goals and to help them utilize age appropriate speech and communication skills in the general and special education setting....