A teacher named Ashley reflects: She looked around the classroom, enjoying a blessed moment of quiet after the students left at the end of the day. “Ashley, the teacher, that’s me”, she said proudly to the empty room. “But why am I doing this?” she asked herself quietly—and realized she wasn’t always sure of the answer. But then she remembered one reason: she was teaching for Nadi…
This Educational Psychology textbook includes chapters on the changing teaching profession, the learning process, student cognitive development, student diversity, students with special educational needs, student motivation, classroom management, the learning environment and more.
This resource is an update of the Educational Psychology textbook originally published by Rosemary Sutton and Kelvin Seifert. The chapters have been realigned to compliment a semester long upper division course for Education majors. This update also includes supplemental links that provides a more expansive foundation of educational psychology principles.
This books lays the foundation for prospective teachers to learn about various teaching methodologies and covers material typically found in many teacher training programs. Chapters in the text can be assigned either from beginning to end, as with a conventional printed book, or they can be selected in some other sequence to meet the needs of particular students or classes. In general the first…