Teaching Psychology

In Who's in My Classroom?, accomplished educator and author delivers an inspirational and practical combination of true stories from teens in Youth Communication's award-winning writing program and the most current educational research. The book links theories of adolescent development and identity formation to best practices in real-world classrooms where teachers strive to form supportive relationships with students.

Der Mensch lernt sein Leben lang, doch nicht immer so effektiv, wie es gewünscht ist. Die Pädagogische Psychologie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin untersucht die Fragen, wie Menschen aller Altersgruppen lernen und mit welchen Methoden Erziehung, Unterricht, Bildung, Ausbildung und Weiterbildung allgemein verbessert werden können. Wenn die Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Lernens erforscht sind, ist es leichter, effektive Bildungskonzepte zu erstellen.

From the author of the best-selling If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Eat the Students, comes an innovative resource for all who work with pre-K through 12th grade students. Neila Connors presents a wealth of strategies and techniques to help teachers develop, maintain, and sustain positive student relationships. If You Don't Feed the Students offers practical, commonsense methods for improving classroom performance, served up in an engaging and entertaining manner.

Students and teachers alike face a dilemma: Why think deeply when we can just take a shortcut by googling something? Why read an article when we can learn from a social media headline? If, as educators, we want to encourage our students to value thoughtfulness and to embrace the effort it takes to reach deep understandings, we must model that behavior ourselves.

Do you feel tense, drained, and overwhelmed by the changed teaching demands? Whether you are a teacher by profession or because of the world’s current pressure, you need to learn to navigate this challenge without getting drained emotionally. If you feel like you lack the resources and support to handle the burdens of teaching, listen to this book. It provides simple steps to help you show up the best possible way as a teacher, no matter if you do it in your classroom, through Zoom, or in your kitchen.

Like so many other American institutions, public education stands at a crossroad. It can either continue down a destructive path of conformity and standardization, or it can open up to the unique gifts that each student and teacher brings to the educative process. Pockets of Freedom champions the latter and proposes that educators, guided by their hearts' powerful intuition, create "pockets of freedom" within their teaching/learning environments to support the shift toward student-centered learning.

As they say, there are a thousand ways to use a knife. If one method isn't working, don't keep doing it. It's time you try another effective method to help students see themselves and the world from a different, much better perspective.

Imagine if there was a way to speed up the learning process, giving you a broader knowledge in a much shorter time. You may wonder how some of your friends or colleagues are able to digest information so quickly, when it takes you much longer to learn the same content. The good news is that you too can become great at learning quickly through the proven scientific strategies outlined in this book. Often in life we are told that some people are naturally gifted and clever and some people just aren’t. But this just simply isn’t the case!