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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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 Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This psychological safety fosters a culture of mutual respect and trust, allowing professionals to focus on their own development rather than worrying about judgment or criticism. Moreover, feedback provides specific and actionable information for educators to set goals and make targeted improvements.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

Listening is one of the best tools that can be leveraged to gather crucial information on the pulse of a culture. Actively inquire about how people are feeling While this might seem like a no-brainer, it is not easy at times to know how people really feel unless diligent efforts are made to find out. & Fouquereau, E.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Beyond human, yet human nonetheless: how demigods approach death from Uruk to Troy Elena Limongelli, Merton College, University of Oxford Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.1

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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

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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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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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Secrecy in Homeric Norm-Contravention: The Iliadic Scholia and Shame Culture Charles Baker, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.4

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Those whom he met along the way, who Van Stockum calls his informants, acted as guides along his journey, leading him to his next stop along the way. Van Stockum relied on his curiosity to guide his journey, whether it was following a river or talking to his informants who informed him of new locations.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

At the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Peter Brusilovsky has shown the effectiveness of knowledge engineering for an information retrieval textbook. For maximum near-term impact, we should begin with textbooks for gateway courses such as biology and psychology. This indicated that the students were learning much more.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Distractions such as objects and perceptions can slow down a person’s ability to process information, causing mistakes.” A large majority of the students I teach are novice learners when it comes to the curriculum of psychology. The more stimuli present, the harder it is for the brain to focus on one object.

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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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The Effortful Educator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

And, while I firmly believe this is a topic worthy of studying by all students in all subject areas, I am lucky enough to teach a course (AP Psychology) where this is part of the curriculum. Developing something that is more easily approachable and easily applicable could be quite advantageous for the spreading of sound cognitive psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Part of why this model would be so powerful is how it would increase the scale at which education research is done, Baraniuk says.

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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I learned about Binet, and his ideas about how IQ tests should — and should not — be used in elementary schools while reporting a piece last month for The Hechinger Report and Slate on the debate over cognitive testing in school placement and psychology. In that sense, Binet was an early forerunner in the field of school psychology.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. Is it because of all the information flowing at all of us these days?

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