Psychology of Teaching and Learning

Brian G. Smith, Ph.D.

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The assessments in this course are patterned after the Praxis II, Principles of Learning and Teaching tests required for licensure

Case Study - Lesson 14

Case studies are a very important part of this course of study. You may run through these scenarios an unlimited number of times. If you make errors, you will be referred to the appropriate area of the book, or an appropriate website.  The questions will be narrative, constructed responses to the issues in the study.   Upon submission of your answers, each of the narrative responses will have professionally written feedback of an ideal answer.  Carefully compare this to your answer to determine correctness There is a score associated with each case study but that score will not be recorded.  You will be given credit for participation.

Quiz - Lesson 14

You will have to take a quiz for each of the lessons. You have two opportunities to take each quiz.  The highest score will be recorded in the grade book.   Each of the quizzes will be multiple choice & true/false, open-book, open-notes.  Upon submitting each quiz, your quiz score as well as any items answered incorrectly will be available.

Homework and Quizzes are on Desire 2 Learn. Click on the Desire 2 Learn link, log in, select the Homework/Quizzes icon and choose the appropriate homework or quiz.

Learning Profiles - Lesson 14

Each lesson in this course will have a Special Education topic  associated with it.  Click on the link below to go to the content of the topic.  Each of the Special Education topics was specifically chosen to complement the psychology topic.  There will be Special Education items on each lesson's quiz. 

• Lesson 14 Learning Disabilities

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1988, Allyn & Bacon

Philosophical Assumptions of Humanism
For Abraham Maslow, humans come with a set of given set of innate truths.  First among these assumptions is that each individual human being has a fundamentally unique experience of life. As much as we think we know how another person feels or what they are thinking, we really can't know what it is like to be them.  This assumption has been coined as Phenomenology.  Each person's view of reality is unique to them, and should be valued by others for the inherent humanity in this phenomenon.  Another basic assumption from the humanists point of view is that personal growth and development is an innate trait, a genetic predisposition.  From a humanistic point of view, we are all born with the ability to grow and do what is best for us as living creatures.  Psychological problems arise, in this approach, from obstructions put on the person in the form of other people valuing their own personal points of view and imposing their values on the person.

Assumptions for the Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow took a good deal of criticism for some of these assumptions especially the assumption concerning the innate tendency towards personal growth.  The hierarchy is Maslow's attempt to explain how this innate tendency might work.  Secondly, the way the model works is that satisfaction at a lower level of the pyramid naturally leads to the next level of need.  So as a person takes care of the lesser need, other more sophisticated needs begin to emerge.  Another assumption for the hierarchy that needs addressing is the concept that lower level needs, the more primitive the more pre-potent, must be satisfied before higher, more refined needs, can be met.  Lastly, is the assumption concerning the idea of a "Self-Actualized" person.  For Maslow, self-actualization is living to one's fullest potential.

Just click on the upper or lower parts of the pyramid to go to either deficiency needs or growth needs.