Constructing a Psychology of Teaching and Learning

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ISBN: 9780395708088 | 0395708087
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1998

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This introductory core text takes a constructivist view of common topics in educational psychology. Through numerous examples, vignettes, anecdotes, and dialogues, Seifert offers students a rich and contextualized view of educational psychology.

Starting with You Experience
Pitfalls and Potentials Reflection
Partner of Experience
The Results of Reflection
Celebrating Uniqueness Constructing
Teaching and Learning Through Dialogue Multiple Voices
Virginia Richardson, University of Michigan
How Many Voices Create the Psychology of Teaching and Learning?
What Do You Already Know About Teaching and Learning?
What Lies Ahead I
Human Change
Learning, in School and Out
Metaphors of Learning
Learning as Behavior Change
Learning as Thinking
Learning as Assisted Performance Multiple Voices
Thinking About
Thinking School-Based and Everyday Thinking Compared A Thumbnail Sketch of Thinking
Thinking as Scholastic Aptitude Tests of Scholastic Aptitude
Thinking as Problem Solving Multiple Voices: Rodelyn Stoeber, High School Science Teacher, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Thinking as Creativity
A Conclusion: Thinking Is Various
Developmental Change
The Varieties of Human Change
Kinds of Developmental Change
Ambiguities of Developmental Change: What Do We Mean by Stage?
Multiple Voices: Dean Page, Teacher of High School Astronomy, Tampa, Florida
Constructing Knowledge of Developmental Change
Developing Adequate Beliefs About Development II
Relationships
What Teachers Do Three Teaching Roles
Multiple Voices: Janice Friesen, Technology Coordinator, Columbia, Missouri
Multiple Voices: Nel Noddings, Professor, Stanford University
Common Ground: Active Learning Personal Metaphors for Teaching
Motivating and Managing Your Class
Why Management Matters
Management as a Way to Motivate Learning Assumptions
About Learning Environments Motivation: Is It Students or Circumstances?
What to Do About Misbehavior?
Reflecting on Management and Motivational Strategies
Among Classmates and Parents Relationships Among Students
Multiple Voices: Deanna Melzian
First-Grade Teacher
Los Angeles
California Relationships with Parents
Parents as Mentors
The Varieties of Families: How Many Mentors
How Often?
Multiple Voices: Mon Cochran, Professor of Family Studies, Cornell University
Multiple Voices: Donna Olson, Elementary School Counselor, Hawthorne, California
Responding Appropriately to Parents III
The Social and Cultural Context
The Meaning of Classroom Talk
Structures That Influence Classroom Discourse
The Impact of Participation
Structures on Learning
How Teachers Talk
How Students Talk
Issues of Classroom Discourse
Using Discourse to Motivate
Learning Patterns in the Confusion of Talk
Gender and Culture as Influences on Learning
How Important Is Gender in Your Own Life?
What Teachers Do Differently with Boys and Girls Is a Gender-Biased Classroom Inevitable?
How Students Create Their Own Gender Differences
What Should You Do About Gender Roles?
Culture as Context for Teaching and Learning
Multiple Voices: Joe Kincheloe, Professor of Educational Foundations, Pennsylvania
State University Strategies for Multicultural Teaching Beyond Tolerance for Diversity
Teaching Students with Special Needs Key Features of Special Education
Multiple Voices: Steven Taylor, Professor of Special Education, Syracuse University
Major Types of Special Needs
Attention Deficit Disorder
Learning More About Students with Special Needs IV
Identifying Success and Value in Teaching
Assessing Students'
Learning Evaluation and Assessment: A Student's
Perspective Evaluation and Assessment: A Parent's
Perspective Evaluation and Assessment: A Teacher's
Perspective Taking Stock of Issues About Assessmen
Multiple Voices: Tom Barone, Professor of Education
Arizona State University Assessments
That Motivate and Inform
But What About Testing?
Reliability and Validity with Alternative Assessments
Getting Along with Grading Systems
Dilemmas at the Heart of Assessment
Hearing Distant Voices: Interpreting Educational Research
Three Purposes of Educational Research
Why Was This Research Published?
The Voices of Teacher Research
The Challenges of Teacher Research
Multiple Voices: Yvette Daniel, High School English Teacher, Toronto
Ontario Benefitting from All Kinds of Research
Care and Justice in Teaching and Learning
The Ethical Nature of Teaching
Morality of Justice Morality of Care
Multiple Voices: Maria Matson, Kindergarten Teacher, Hawthorne Public Schools, CA
Fostering Care and Justice Moral Students
Moral Classrooms
Reflections
Looking Ahead
What Will Challenge You About Teaching?
Your Resources for Becoming an Accomplished
Teacher Blurring Distinctions
Enriching Meanings
Glossary
References
Author/Name
Index
Subject Index
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