A Psychology Teacher Writes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

One of the more challenging topics to teach in Psychology is biopsychology. Students often arrive at A level psychology with not only a wide range of prior knowledge but also a massive variety in expectations about what they’re going to learn. And this information is crucial for you later in the course. Why do people take drugs?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It involves sharing information, developing trust, and creating an environment where everyone knows the direction and goals of the organization. Annual Review of Psychology, 60(1), 421-449. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4), 863-871. Your people—and your organization—will be better for it. Avolio, B. Walumbwa, F.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2025

A year ago, paper and pen seemed to be the winner when the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a Norwegian study that documented how different areas of the brain were communicating more frequently when students were writing by hand. That helps the new information to stick better, resulting in better retention.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud. Behaviourism While Freudian psychoanalysis was hugely influential in the 20 th century another completely different strand of psychological investigation was developed almost concurrently, this is “behaviourism”.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Below are four possible explanations from cognitive psychology to explain this occurrence, followed by some possible solutions. Novice and expert learners experience and process information differently. Basically, it is much easier to add information to already established and understood information in memory.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 17, 2023

In Psychology (for our specification at least) students typically study material for paper 1 in year 12 and then paper 2 content in year 13. Then I mapped out year 1 topics from the specification (Edexcel Psychology in this case) across the weeks, to have covered all the major areas in the time available.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. I made someone feel psychologically unsafe? Earlier that day, I received an email from our district informing me that my school had the lowest completion average on our beginning of year reading exam.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

however, these programs are much less likely to include an educational psychology or cognitive psychology course on memory processing and differing theories of learning. Colleges and universities need to include coursework in educational psychology and cognitive psychology. Especially in the U.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Research should be used to inform as well as influence the actions we take to implement sustainable change at scale. The consensus of this research is that the space itself has physical, social, and psychological effects. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1362–1370. Godwin, K., & & Seltman, H. Scott-Webber, L.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2024

It turns out many students don’t inform their colleges of their disability and that has led to a support gap.The truth is, too many college and university students with disabilities decide to forgo a request for the accommodations that they may need to be successful. So, why aren’t these students seeking the accommodations that they need?

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TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

Edith Ackerman, a “ Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design. Knowledge Construction: Learning is about constructing knowledge rather than just absorbing information. Active Learning: Learners actively participate in their learning process.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The resulting insights can then be shared with all actors — instructors, mentors and learners — enabling them to make informed decisions about the learner’s next steps toward their goal. Other sectors’ assessment practices can inform new approaches in education. As technology improves, we’ll be flooded with classroom information.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. Why teach syndemics?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

So my parents had me take a psychological test, and the psychological test came back and essentially said that I had low academic aptitude which, when you are a parent, is not exactly the message that you want to get for your child at age 3. At 3 years old, I was still trying.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I’m thinking here primarily about my own subject, Psychology, or any other where there aren’t simply right or wrong answers most of the time, and therefore examining requires interpretation and application of a mark scheme. I’m just not sure. And, to be clear, I’ve never examined. What might examining give you?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Yaritza Garcia, a 22-year-old psychology major at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, said she wanted to supplement traditional therapy services with a peer counseling program. It’s all about how to make the information inescapable, she said. When he enrolled again at 21, he was in a much better place.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Keywords: socioeconomic status, informer choice, late-emerging reading development, standardized testings, student attainment, service-learning How Socioeconomic Status Influences Learning At the beginning of the school year, teachers are made aware of characteristics of their students in order to create accommodations.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

.” The act of thinking about our own thinking, of knowing what we know and don’t know, is referred to in academic circles as metacognition , and it plays a huge role in how well our brain holds on to information. Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. Are we good?

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It informs everyone of what students know and dont know. It also works to strengthen memories of content while establishing powerful context for the ability to further recognize and recall information successfully in the future. More on these three categories of information here. Material that is commonly confused.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 9, 2025

The information in the non-practice condition would not appear on any end of week quiz and only appeared on the final test one month after the final quiz. The information assigned to the practice condition would either be quizzed via blocked or interleaved questioning. Psychological Science, 33(5), 782-788. Carvalho, P.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Foster says shed be upset if her daughters private information was compromised. Seattle Times and AP reporters saw what kind of writing set off Gaggles alerts after requesting information about the type of content flagged. Thats not good at all, Foster said after learning the district inadvertently released the records. What do I do?

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Social Engineering: The Human Factor While technology evolves, human psychology remains a constant target. Modern phishing attacks are sophisticated enough to fool even tech-savvy users. Last year, a junior employee at a Fortune 500 company received what appeared to be a routine Zoom meeting invitation from their CEO.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

If youd like more information on topics of memory, attention, and learning strategies to create a more effective classroomboy do I have the book for you. If you access this link , you can find more information on the book, endorsements from Dr. C., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(2), 276. McLean, D.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Self-Determination Theory identifies three basic psychological needs that impact motivation–competence, relatedness, and autonomy (Deci & Ryan, 2000). If students choose how they engage with information, review concepts, work on tasks, or share their learning, they are more likely to feel competent in those endeavors.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Teachers who are autonomy supportive “promote autonomy offer their students choices, give them informative feedback and allow them the space to decide for themselves how they want to learn (Hofferber, Eckes & Wilde, 2014, p.178). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 52(5), 890-898. Grolnick, W. & Ryan, R.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

” Principle 2: Protect Privacy and Confidentiality “All information related to a student’s sexual orientation and gender identity should be treated like private medical data,” Edwards says. “When a student changes their name and pronouns,” he offers, “who should be informed? .

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Jonathan Firth

MARCH 8, 2019

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to What Works came out around this time last year. Co-authored with Marc Smith and aimed at both new and experienced teachers, it’s a guide to how psychology research on areas such as memory, creativity and motivation can be applied to classroom practice.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud. Quizzes are another option because they also require students to retrieve new information from memory.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This week the annual Scottish Learning Festival took place in Glasgow, and together with five fellow educators I gave a presentation on the value of psychology to younger learners. 1) The study of Psychology is a basic part of understanding reality. 2) Psychology is interesting and motivating. We can do better for our learners.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

His conclusion was that generic critical thinking skills don’t translate from one subject to another but that subject-specific critical thinking skills can be explicitly taught as you go deep into a lesson, be it history or math, as students need to learn a lot of information to process it. One has to do with information processing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In layman’s language, that means that the brain learns new information and skills by being forced to recall them periodically. Remembering consolidates information and helps the brain form long-term memories. Their meta-analysis was published in Educational Psychology Review in August 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

If only teachers can be more informed during class about things they can’t normally easily monitor, then students might learn better. Instead, just by scanning a classroom, a teacher could see a virtual reality dashboard in the air, with information hovering above children’s heads as they toiled on a computer.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Stunning revelations from insiders and whistleblowers reveal everything from billion-dollar marketing machines to the design ploys and psychological tricks intended to manipulate consumer behaviour on a global scale.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Take AP Psychology. But rather than encouraging us to engage with psychology’s intellectual premises, the class requires us to memorize roughly 400 terms. Thus, it is no surprise that GPT-4 clocks high scores on the bar exam, SAT and multiple AP exams, including a 5 (the highest possible score) on AP Psychology.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Scientific exploration encourages students to ask questions, analyze information, and make evidence-based conclusionsall of which are essential literacy skills. Pairing scientific readings with guided discussions helps students practice extracting key information and making connections between ideas.

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Geography Education

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve often wondered why my mom and I are so different in this regard; our psychology, our interests, the information we value, the skills we believe are useful and within our grasps are quite distinct.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills. This highlights the necessity of integrating robust numeracy programs into early education frameworks to give students a head start.

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