PSY 281 - Educational Psychology

Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course is designed for individuals who are or will be working in a vocational environment, which requires them to provide or become part of an educational or training program. Although the course is targeting traditional educational systems, it is directly applicable to virtually any setting in which a person may be required to help an individual or group of individuals learn and understand new information, or to develop new knowledge and skills sets. The fundamentals of this course are designed to assist the student in differentiating learning theory and processes as aspects of human development. Emphasis is placed on the roles of the educators and the students in applying the principles of learning, instruction, evaluation, and pupil management.

Prerequisite(s): PSY 111 or consent of instructor
SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Demonstrate their understanding of human physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development and their relationships to the educational setting.
Describe methods of evaluation that are specifically applicable to classroom practices and standardized testing.
Identify individual differences among students, their impact on student learning, and best practices to manage effective student outcomes.
Describe students in need of special services, their individual learning styles, and strategies to facilitate learning.
Describe the psychological aspects of thinking, learning, and memory.
Describe the psychological aspects of motivation and instruction.
Describe the psychological aspects of student and classroom assessment.
Identify practices that facilitate classroom management.
Describe the importance of reflective teaching.
Identify activities that promote professional growth among classroom teachers.