Educational Psychology AEDU

Throughout the last chapters of the educational psychology text, I have noticed how important it is for teachers to motivate their students. Motivation can come on many different levels and for many different reasons.  Chapter 12 explain these different reasons that motivation is important for students learning. I found it very interesting that in chapter 12 anxiety was a big problem.  I recalled a lot of information that came from standardized testing was formed around students having anxiety. Students can understand the information set before them, but because they're so nervous none of the information can be recalled during test time. (Pg468-469)  The text also talked about how anxiety happens in the preparation stages of learning. I believe that if the standardized testing or assessments alone weren't so intimidating students would not have anxiety when it's time to take them. Chapter 15 talked a lot about how students can help each other when it comes to asses...

Chapter 9 was a very interesting chapter to read.  I'm a strong believer that each class needs a little creativity to make the students feel more energetic about being in the class.  Children have to do so many different aspects now that adults never had to do when they were children. The amount of responsibility that they face takes away from them being children. Which is a reason wrong behavior problems are existing in the classroom. Children are not being exposed to fun and creativity anymore. They are used to video games and many are made to take on adult responsibilities. In the text, it states "  Creativity is important for an individual psychological, physical, social and career success” (351).  So this tells me that creativity is necessary for children to learn inside and outside of the classroom.  A great way for children to grow outside of the classroom is teaching them about diversity. According to the text researchers have shown multicultural ...