Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action - Softcover

O'Donnell, Angela M.; Reeve, Johnmarshall; Smith, Jeffrey K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118076133 ISBN 13: 9781118076132

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Synopsis

Teachers help students learn, develop, and realize their potential. To become successful in their craft, teachers need to learn how to establish high-quality relationships with their students, and they need to learn how to implement instructional strategies that promote students' learning, development, and potential. To prepare pre-service teachers for the profession, the study of educational psychology can help them to better understand their students and better understand their process of teaching. Such is the twofold purpose of Educational Psychology – to help pre-service teachers understand their future students better and to help them understand all aspects of the teaching-learning situation. The pursuit of these two purposes leads to the ultimate goal of this text – namely, to help pre-service teachers become increasingly able to promote student learning, development, and potential when it becomes their turn to step into the classroom and take full-time responsibility for their own classes.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Make Reflection an Everyday Practice
Because today's classrooms and instructional demands are changing, new teachers need to be able to frame questions about their classrooms, use theories and research to think critically about the answers to those questions, and then take action.

Using real classroom cases, thought-provoking questions, and synthesizing activities, the authors guide students through a unique 4-step process––Reflection, Information Gathering, Decision-Making, and Evaluation (RIDE)––that seamlessly translates theory into practice, and helps make reflection an everyday practice.

Written by experts in cognition, motivation, and assessment, Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action provides an effective framework that not only makes the study of educational psychology manageable, but also develops new teachers into reflective practitioners.

About the Authors
Angela M. O’Donnell is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers. She is the current President of Division 15 of the American Psychological Association. She has published extensively on the cognitive processes involved in learning.

Johnmarshall Reeve is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations at the University of Iowa. His research interests center on the empirical study of all aspects of human motivation and emotion, on which he has written widely.

Jeffrey Smith is Professor of Education at The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers.  He is former Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Education.  His research interests include psychological factors involved in assessment, and classroom assessment and grading.

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About the Author:

Angela M. O'Donnell research explores the significance of peers in the learning process. She says that most people really learn what they want to know from asking other people. The ability to recognize and effectively use peers is especially important to those who feel they have few resources.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1118076133
• ISBN 13: 9781118076132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 672