In class we discussed the importance of being a wise consumer of information about educational psychology. I think this is a very important part of becoming a teacher. Teachers are presented with all kinds of different information about children from all kinds of different studies. I think that as a teacher, I’m going to need to be careful about not generalizing my students. I am also going to need to be careful about the kind of information that I use. Just because a study was done that proved something doesn’t mean that it is true or applicable.
I chose two videos, one that focused on using behaviourism in the classroom, and one that focused on using constructivism in the classroom.
These two videos demonstrate the idea that there are all sorts of information being presented to teachers about how they should teach. A teacher shouldn’t just watch one of these videos and decide that that is the right way to teach, but should instead research and think about different ways to teach and make an informed decision. Maybe behaviourism is more effective and maybe constructivism is more effective, or perhaps a collaboration of the two, but we can’t make this decision based on one study that was done.
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