AEDU 303 Educational Psychology - Summer Session, 2019

This week's reading consisted of Chapter 12, 14, and 15. However due to this week's quiz on Chapter 12 which required an indepth look, I will briefly recap what the chapter was about.   Chapter 12, Learning and Motivation, focused on motivation. The chapter covers motivation; what motivation is, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Think back to the rewards and why a student is performing different tasks. A big part of the Chapter is Maslow's HIercachy of Needs, this talks about autonomy and how these needs related to teachers. It is important to be able to identify students need in a classroom setting. As featured in the quiz this week. I had a student last year Damien, who loved to be the first one done. This was due to one day he got right to work and was the first one to finish. The cooperating teacher and I moved his clip up and celebrated his success. We did not make it clear that his clip was moved up because he was focused and motivated to learn, instead he received...

We made it!  Module 5 was the culmination of so much we have learned during this five week class.  This last week was stress as I was balancing this class, another Trinity class and my full-time job demanded overtime this past week, which was a first in a very long while.  I have learned so much regarding assessments.  I will admit I am intimidated to writing test questions and reading the various approaches and following Bloom's Taxonomy did help reduce my anxiety.  Once I was able to write my first two or three assessment questions, I found I was able to get in the right mind set to address the topic I wanted to test.  I tried to be creative and think of questions or scenarios that would test the students knowledge by applying, understanding or evaluating the material.  As a future educator, I am excited to work with the students.  When I inform friends that I am changing careers, many observe my enthusiasm, knowledge and caring for the subjec...

Chapters 12, 14 & 15 Chapter 12 started by explaining what motivation is. It described how in psychology motivation focuses on five questions. It then proceeded to explain about needs and self-determination, Maslow called four lower-level needs deficiency needs which are survival, safety, belonging and self-esteem. Once they are met the motivation for fulfilling them decreases. What stood out to me in this chapter is how goals are most motivating when they are specific and attainable. When I make specific goals that are difficult yet attainable, I get very motivated to accomplish it. On the other hand if I make a general goal, I do not attain it most of the time. Chapter 14, started with research on teaching and what methods have been used to study teaching. It then talks about what makes a good teacher, generally teachers that get proper training and certifications tend to perform better. I worked at a pre-school center at that time I had my associate and was in school for my ...

For my interview I chose my aunt her name is Kifah Soheil she has been an ESL teacher for 9 years. She is the one that recommended Trinity College to me. She seriously is one of my inspiration. Kifah went back to school when she was forty years old, all her kids were in high school when she started. She went through the adult program and graduated with her associates, bachelors, and masters in education.  I asked her many questions about her experience in school, students and also her classroom management. She then replied with no matter what I learn every single day. Everything you do as a teacher is a learning experience. This really stuck out to me she then told me every time you step in the classroom you should be ready for a challenge. I never really expected an answer like that and I was shocked. After the interview we talked about views of the classroom and I wish I had this recorded, but she said that no matter what your students are going to look up to you because you a...

Chapter 12 discussed motivation in learning and teaching. The chapter also talks about goals and needs as in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. The book really went in depth with intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Growing up I never had a teacher that used intrinsic motivation they were always bribing us at the end of the week with something. Becoming a teacher that is what I thought I needed to do in order to gain the attention from my students, until I read this chapter. Students need to have motivations of intrinsic. Some students are so used to rewards they expect one every time they do good. Another subject this chapter talks about are goals.  Chapter 14 talks about preparation for teachers. I enjoyed this chapter and related to it. When you are in school and learning to be come a teacher it's not the same as when you're in the classroom in front of your own students. Chapter 14 discussed how we should be ready for assessments, feedback, instruction, piles of work on us, a...

This week in chapters 12. 14, and 15 Woolfolk covers motivation, different approaches to teaching, and classroom assessments. My favorite chapter in this section was chapter 15 because I did not know that much about assessments from the teacher's side. I think it was difficult to find the t and z scores, as well as the standard deviation. If this is what teachers have to do then I have to see my math professor as soon as possible! It was a great eye opening experience because I thought teachers made the test and then just entered in the grades. I did not think that there was more to it than that. In  chapter 14 Woolfolk discussed approaches to teaching. My favorite section was on page 579 where Woolfolk discussed using assistive tech to students in class. I have seen this in action during my current field placement and it is really cool to see. One student has trouble talking sometimes so he has this iPad app where there are phrases for him to use if he wants to communicate. I loo...