Educational Psychology : An Interactive Classroom Approach

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Educational psychology as a foundation. 3. Learning to read and write. 4. Children and learn. 5. Moral education. 6. Student-centred learning. 7. Collaborative learning tools. 8. Student motivation. 9. Human computer relationships. 10. Learning technology practices with toolkits. 11. Constructive online learning. 12. Visual literacy in learning. 13. Parents and learning. 14. Creative teaching. 15. Effective educational practices. Bibliography. Index.

"Educational psychology is written with the purpose of developing a meaningful understanding of the role of educational psychology in classroom teaching. It provides clear connections between theories of learning and motivation and a variety of important interactive approaches to classrooms.

To help readers become intentional teachers, this book offers a set of questions to guide them and models best practices through classroom examples. It prepares teachers as no other text does. It teaches them to think about how students develop and learn, to make decisions before and during instruction, and to consider what constitutes evidence that their students are learning and succeeding." (jacket)