This week was crazy reading the chapters. I started to read and I fell asleep in 5 minutes. Granted it was late at night and I was tired, but i could not find the interest in the first chapter. I understood on why the author chose to write that chapter first. Starting off the book with a little bit of a background on what todays educational psychology is and how it is moving for the future. It takes a step back and shows how the stigma used to be with common sense teaching but now everything is broken down into a science. Learning for the student and how they specifically learn as well as teaching and how to teach properly. Teaching has com a long was scientifically. The amount of research put in to the subject of "if a teacher is interested in the subject the kid will learn better and grasp the concept faster". Teachers are no longer teaching on the broad spectrum of science but now they are specifying on the high school level. One teacher will only teach biology because what is what their field of expertise is in.
As the chapters went on I started to gain more interest in the readings. I remember a class that I took in college about human behavior from pre-natal to death and dying. As I was reading about Piaget and Erikson I had a flash back to that class at UWW. I was the best class I had all of college because of the schemas that Piaget was interesting in. The stages of development that Erikson perfected. We now look at almost all children and we could put them into a category. If you think of a teenager 12-19 years of age you can tell they are in the identity vs isolation. I can guarantee you will thin of an instance when you were that age where you were questioning who you were. I had a big push of learning more in depth about the stages of other psychologists and I looking forward to the rest of the class.
Landon,
ReplyDeleteI had a similar experience early on in my reading. It was a ton of information that I was not super excited about at first.
It really is interesting to read about the science of learning and development. Like you said, its amazing how much research has gone into the process of systematizing this information. As teachers, we can benefit from knowing what stage of learning our students may be in or how they may progress on to the next stage. Mostly it is good foundation knowledge that will give us a proper perspective of student development as we move into our specific subject areas.