Micro Teaching 2 Teaching Educational Psychology using Childrens

Micro Teaching #2 Teaching Educational Psychology using Children’s Literature Copyright July 2014 – Narmada Paul and Susan Strayer This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 International license.

THERE ARE SOME THEMES, SOME SUBJECTS, TOO LARGE FOR ADULT FICTION; THEY CAN ONLY BE DEALT ADEQUATELY IN A CHILDREN’S BOOK. - Philip Pullman

Goals To introduce theory To build background knowledge To make theory more understandable To create images of concepts To help students make connections between theory and their work with children

The Rainbow Fish

Activity What are the underlying themes of the story? What are your thoughts on how the story ended?

Self-concept Individuals’ knowledge and beliefs about themselves – their ideas, feelings, attitudes and expectations. Self-concept evolves through constant self-evaluation. Reactions of significant people are used in making judgments about Self. As children grow up self-concept is tied to physical appearance and social acceptance. Different from self-esteem (though there may be connections).

Questions… As a teacher, how do you ensure that your students value their own qualities? (group 1) How do you react to individual differences among students in your class? (group 2)

The Dark

Activity What was theme of the story?

Self-efficacy Albert Bandura (1986, 1994, 1997) A person’s sense of being able to deal effectively with a particular task. It influences human agency or the capacity to coordinate learning skills, motivation, and emotions to reach one’s goals. Self efficacy is different from self-concept.

Activity Think of a task which you initially felt was beyond your capacity to accomplish successfully but with time mastered it. What do you think led you to change your beliefs about your ability to do the task?

Sources of self-efficacy expectations Mastery experiences (most powerful source of efficacy information) Level of arousal Vicarious experiences Social persuasion

Question… What influenced Laszlo to overcome his fear of the dark?

Final questions… Can you think of using content from a different discipline to aid your teaching? How would you do it? What are the pros/cons of integrating different disciplines in teaching?

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