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Objectives and Areas of Educational Psychology

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1 Objectives and Areas of Educational Psychology
Objectives of educational psychology Areas of educational psychology

2 Objectives of educational psychology
Objectives of educational psychology for teachers and students: The main objective of educational psychology to teachers and students is to improve teaching and learning processes.

3 Objectives of educational psychology
1- Teaching is a complex enterprise Educational psychology provides information about a wide range of knowledge and skills 2- Research that informs teacher Educational psychology offers useful and tested ideas for improving instruction

4 3- Coursework and competence
i- Educational psychology helps prepare teachers to be effective. Teachers who have had relevant coursework in education and psychology are likely to be more competent than teachers who lack such coursework

5 ii- Educational psychology helps teachers by providing strategies for motivating students in learning. iii- Educational psychology offers useful and tested means and methods of assessing learning iv- Educational psychology offers useful techniques and strategies for learning v- It helps students for techniques of effective learning

6 Areas of educational psychology
Some Areas for educational psychology 1- Cognitive and language development 2- Personal, social, and emotional development 3- Learner differences and learning needs 4- Culture and diversity 5- Behavioural views of learning 6- Cognitive views of learning 7- Cognitive processes

7 8- Social cognitive and constructivist views of learning 9- Motivation in learning and teaching 10- Engaged learning: cooperation and community 11- Creating learning environments 12- Teaching for learning 13- Standardized testing 14- Classroom assessment and grading


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