The Psychology of Great Teaching
eBook - ePub

The Psychology of Great Teaching

(Almost) Everything Teachers Ought to Know

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Psychology of Great Teaching

(Almost) Everything Teachers Ought to Know

About this book

This is your essential teaching companion that offers a broad understanding of modern psychology and how ideas from psychological theory and research can be relevant to any classroom.

Explore robust, current ideas and contemporary findings from different psychological disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, personality theory and systems theory, and learn new insights to enhance your teaching.  

Deepen your knowledge of how students and young people develop as individuals and how a greater understanding of human behaviour can make you a more effective teacher. Each chapter includes 'teacher takeaways' offering practical advice on how to translate up-to-date psychological ideas into effective teaching techniques.

The perfect read for teachers and those training to teach school students of any age.

Pedro De Bruyckere is an educational scientist at the Artevelde University College of Applied Sciences and Leiden University.
Casper Hulshof is a psychologist who teaches Educational Science at Utrecht University.
Liese Missinne is an educational scientist and teacher trainer at the Artevelde University College of Applied Sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. About the authors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. How this book is structured
  9. Introduction: Almost everything?
  10. How do we know something in psychology?
  11. 1 ‘I’
  12. 1.1 What determines who I am? Nature, nurture or something else?
  13. 1.2 How does personality develop? Who am I?
  14. 1.3 Attachment as an important starting point
  15. 1.4 Moral development: the difference between right and wrong, and how we learn it
  16. 1.5 Intelligence: more than just a figure after taking a test1
  17. 1.6 Cognitive development: when do we understand what we understand?
  18. 1.7 Language development: from babbling to …
  19. 1.8 Physical development: enormous changes
  20. 1.9 Let’s talk about sex(ual development)
  21. 1.10 The development of playing: not just a game
  22. 2 Others
  23. 2.1 The bio-ecological model of Bronfenbrenner (or how you need a whole village to raise a child)
  24. 2.2 Which parenting or teaching style should you adopt?
  25. 2.3 Friends and other relationships
  26. 3 Learning
  27. 3.1 Everything starts with perception
  28. 3.2 Learning
  29. 3.3 What is the difference between a beginner and an expert?
  30. 4 Behaviour
  31. 4.1 Everything under the control of our executive functions
  32. 4.2 Motivation
  33. 4.3 Behavioural economics: how to give people a push in the right direction
  34. Now what...?
  35. References
  36. Index