Education Psychology =]

This class has been my most favorite out of all the other classes i have been taking so far. the information is not only interesting to me but i will be needing it and using it to further myself in the career i have chosen. I have learnt so much information that i was learning for the first time and that was very interesting to me. Also i quite like the teacher that i have for it. Mr. Robert Nellis. He is very confident in what he is teaching us and he also knows the material as well. at the beginning of every class he would as his students if there was anything that we needed clarified or wanted to go over before we began the new materiel for our class. Mr. Nellis also lets us leave a good 5-10 minutes early every single day, which is very nice. This is a very important class and for very good reason, and it was my favorite class of the semester and i am sad that it is now over. i hope to keep everything i have learned in this class, in my schema and i know most of the information will be helpful in the next few years. I know that this job is going to have its up and definitely have its downs but thats all part of being a person who is going to be teaching the next generations of people.

Long Term Memory

There are several ways to test ones long term memory abilities. In my Psychology class out teacher told us to try and remember a list of words in which she was going to read us. We werent aloud to write any of them down until she was finished and said it was okay. the way that i was able to remember the words was by repeating them to myself a couple times then adding on the next word and repeating that as well. after we wrote down the words she asked the class what types of methods we had used to remember all the words. the most common answer was that they had made a story with the words in order to remember them. i was intrigued with this. she did the same example again a few days later but with different words, and i tried to make a story out of it. i found that making a story with the words worked better for me than repeating them to myself over and over. so i have now learned a new way in which i am able to store and remember information

Managing the Classroom

Tips to managing your classroom that i believe are very useful and good techniques that work

• fairness is key 
• Deal with Disruptions with as Little Interruption as Possible
• Avoid confrontation in front of the other students
• Stop disruptions with a little humor in the beginning
• Keep high expectations in your class
• Be consistent
• Make Rules Understandable
• Start Fresh Everyday

 When you are trying to manage your classroom there are many ways that could be of interest to you. Like the picture to the right shows just a few of the ones that work well and are most commonly used.

    I think it is one of the most important things for a teacher to motivate their students. It gives the students the confidence to know that they are doing what was asked of them and that they are doing it right as well. All you would have to do is assure the student and tell them they are doing well, or they are on the right track with their work. It’s also needed for the teachers to be motivated as well. When a good teacher is motivated, it makes things easier for that teacher to motivate their students. 

    A few days ago i was watching the movie "Freedom Writers" and the teacher in that move has motivated herself to be anything and everything that her students needed from her. once she had shown her students that she was very motivated and willing to help them with anything, the students soon became motivated in their school work and in their lives as well.. I thought this move had an amazing story to it and that it also related to the topic of motivation.

Cooperatve Learning and Group Work

There are 5 components of cooperative learning

Positive Interdependence- all ships rise and fall together with a tide. Everyone is more or less tied together.

Positive Face to Face Interactions- Team skill Building and being a community and belonging increase motivation

Interpersonal and Small Group Interactions- is when children have different roles to play in groups

Individual Accountability- builds into individual and group assessment, and accountability

Critical Reflection- builds time into it, support and time for critical reflection

There are alot of positives and negatives to working in groups when it comes to smaller children. Some of the more positive aspects may be that the children would be able to come up with more brainstorming ideas for whatever it was they might have been asked to do. A negative would be that the children are more likely to go off topic and fool around than if they were working alone.

Child accessing Hole in the Wall

I just thought that this part of the video was very cool to see how children are able to figure out how to use a device that they have never seen or played with prior to Sugata Mitras test.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs