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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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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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

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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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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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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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In a short answer, the responder must answer the prompt without the benefit of any additional information or possible answers. Then there are Referential Questions : An inherently subjective question, Referential Questions produce new information and can be either open or closed-ended questions. What crucial information are we missing?

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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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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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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

That’s according to a new study by the News Literacy Project, which also found that teens struggle with identifying false information online. This comes at a time when media literacy education isn’t available to most students, the report finds, and their ability to distinguish between objective and biased information sources is weak.

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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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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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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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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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 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

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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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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Jonathan Firth

JUNE 2, 2022

Image source: Unsplash In most psychology and related courses, learners are expected to write short essays or extended exam-style answers about research studies or theories. It should state the aim of the essay, and provide enough background information to put the main issue into context.

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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

JUNE 23, 2021

channels, contact information, frequency, responsiveness) and where shared documents will be housed. These could be offered within the footprint of a required core curriculum, through career centers or as standalone courses, such as the Psychology of Collaboration class I taught while on the faculty at Harvey Mudd College.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Nikita Nerkar, a peer wellness coach and senior from Phoenix majoring in psychology, said students often “are looking to have a space to talk things through.”.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Challenge #2: Student Expectations in a Changing World Today’s students are part of a hyper-connected world where they have access to a wealth of information, media, and tools that empower them to control how they learn and interact with others. Technology is good at transferring information.

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Whether it is the physical appearance of the room or the method of instruction, I want to make it as efficient and effective as possible for my students to both get the information in and then provide opportunities for them to get the information out for use. Is a lot of this information somewhat common knowledge to teacher?

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The Effortful Educator

MAY 2, 2024

After watching a video of a lecture and taking notes while being seated behind either an attentive or inattentive confederate, participants completed a survey and a multiple-choice questions quiz on the information presented. What do I do with this information in my classroom? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied , 27 (2), 276.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Clinical interventions are not the only way — and often not the most appropriate or effective way — to support young people who may be temporarily struggling with feelings that do not meet the full psychological definition of mental illness. She has maintained a private clinical psychology and consulting practice for more than three decades.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

I’ve written for the American Psychological Association several, Education Week, Edutopia, National Education Association, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many more. It still feels surreal to see where reading research and writing about its implications in my classroom has taken me. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

As a professor of psychology at Cornell University, Sternberg has long studied standardized tests, and concluded they don’t provide much useful information on whether students are learning to think critically and creatively, enabling them to be successful in college, careers and life in general. “We’re Subscribe today!

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

Approximately 8 in 10 of those surveyed also say that learners vary by way of their personal background and knowledge, their health and psychological wellbeing, and how they think, among other things. Our goal is to share results and use the findings to inform efforts to ensure all students have powerful learning experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

The research helped inform his influential “ attachment theory ,” which emphasizes the bond between parent and child and the harms that come from separating them. Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Neuroscientists have found that curious students learn better because their brain activity changes in ways that help them retain new information. In her first semester of college, she asked her psychology professor if she could assist in the professor’s research. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When the researchers compared information about the inmates’ childhoods with a population outside the prison, they found that the comparison group could provide abundant examples of free play in childhood, while the group inside prison largely could not. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology.

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