A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and supporting teachers. Find them on our blog: What Positive Psychology Has to Do with Supporting Teacher Well-Being Promoting Teacher Mental Health?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In 2009 the peer-reviewed journal Educational Psychologist published a literature review article by Professor Johnmarshall Reeve on why the majority of teachers act in ways that thwart the primary psychological need for autonomy. Learn more at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/every-parent-s-dilemma-a-book-project. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict discipline or a more forgiving response where students discuss their grievances with an adult’s guidance, a process called restorative justice. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Dixon, an assistant professor of developmental psychology at Hampton University, said retention efforts like the one in Mississippi ultimately need buy-in from administrators too. School leaders, he said, should question whether they’ve set up environments that allow teachers to link their values and beliefs to the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

26, 2019 in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, looked at what happened when researchers randomly gave fidget spinners to college students and had them watch educational videos in a laboratory setting at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Assigning them active classroom jobs, such as being the door opener, can help too.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The effects of such practices can reverberate throughout a student’s life, according to the American Psychological Association, leading to worse mental health and lower grades. “We Black and Hispanic teachers were less likely than their white colleagues to both issue an office referral and to be in the ranks of top referrers.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 22, 2024

Not every problem a teacher faces is about classroom management (although these probably account for a lot more than we might realise). Not every problem a teacher faces is content-agnostic. Not every problem a teacher faces can be fixed by a simple sequence of behavioural steps.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This controlled chaos felt at odds with expectations of strict classroom management, and I had to shift gears quickly. What psychological and spiritual damage would this cause? My body tensed up, my heartbeat quickened and my existing confidence was immediately replaced with insecurity.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

The result is a classroom where students are passive recipients rather than active agents in the learning process. The Impact of Teacher Control When teachers exert total control over the curriculum, pacing, and behavior in a classroom, they stifle student autonomy—a fundamental psychological need essential for motivation.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

There are both psychological and physiological reasons why hands-on learning is so effective at information retention. According to Psychology Today , listening and analyzing processes happen in the left hemisphere of the brain, but visual and spatial processes happen on the right side.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration?

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Meanwhile, a lot of the research evidence from cognitive psychology in areas such as working memory and learning is based on laboratory studies with university students. Dunlosky et al (2013) The authors are psychologists and memory researchers, and this paper reviews a number of different findings from cognitive psychology.

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