Psychology of Teaching and Learning Lessons
Lesson
Quizzes
Lessons should be taken in the order in which they are
presented below. This is a parallel site to the D2L
course site. I have every expectation that students in
this course will be constantly moving back and forth between
this web site and the D2L site. There is a button bar
at the top of each content page that you can use for
navigation. The lessons have been sequenced
specifically for the best possible outcome on the overall
Grand Round assignment. Quizzes are also sequential. All quizzes
for each of the three pavilions of Human Development,
Leaning Theory, and Motivation must be done before
submitting that pavilion's Grand Round chapter.
Lessons must be done and quizzes taken before
the expiration date for each pavilion.
Each lesson has assigned chapter topics to read. Please read the assigned
chapters before attempting any of the quizzes. The
quizzes are set up as randomly drawn from a larger set
of questions. Generally, the proportion of
questions from either Educational Psychology text or the
Special Education text is about 80% Ed. Psych. and 20%
Special Education. The questions are patterned
after the Praxis II Pedagogy examination that is
required for certification in any teaching licensure
area.
You may take each of the quizzes as often as you like.
Only your HIGHEST grade will be recorded.
Case Studies
Each of the case studies are graded as
Pass/Fail. These are intended to both expose you
to Special Education cases as well as help you to apply
the Psychological theories of each lesson as well.
So much of teaching is making professional judgments and
conclusions based on admittedly incomplete information,
it is very good practice to get a feel for how to do
this, and to what a teacher should pay attention.
These case studies are also patterned after the Praxis
II Pedagogy examination.
In each case study, you will read it and
answer the open-ended questions at the end. These
are constructed or narrative responses and as such are
very difficult for a machine to grade. Therefore
you will be given narrative feedback upon "submission"
of each case study. This narrative feedback is how
a professional teacher would handle the situation given
in the case study. To determine the correctness of
your response, you will compare your answer to the one
given in the feedback.
Students will be given a "Pass" when
they have submitted an honest, reasonable, and insightful
answer and read the feedback given.
Grand Round
The Grand Round is the most valuable of
all of the assignments in this course and hence the is
given more points. It is the assumption of your
instructor that you will not only be exposed to the
theories in this course, but also be able to apply them
to a human being. This is also the assumption of
the parents of your future students.
In each of the lessons, you will
find a focused assignment designed to help you apply
each of the theories in this course. Completing
each of these small assignments is then put together to
make a chapter of the overall Grand Round assignments. Use the course email -
smithb@msnstate.edu
as you have questions that have not been adequately
addressed in the content of this web site.
To give you an overview of the Grand Round
Assignment, you will first be handing in the first 1/3
of the overall project, followed by 2/3 of the over all
project, followed by the whole project.
You can get started by clicking on the
first lesson below! |
