Psychology can be applied to understanding a range of current issues and topics in teaching and educational practice. Starting with the question, ′what is psychology?′, and a topical overview of child and adolescent development, Stephen James Minton moves on to discuss seven areas of contemporary concern in education, showing how psychological approaches can help teachers in key areas of practice. Areas covered include: - the self, self-esteem, and self-esteem enhancement - intelligence, learning styles and educational attainment - positive teaching, co-operative learning and assertive discipline - special educational needs - preventing and countering bullying and cyber-bullying - dealing with prejudice - stress and stress management This detailed text will be vital reading for all those studying psychology and applied psychology in primary and secondary teaching degree programmes. Constant links between theory and practice also make it a valuable read for practitioners reflecting on their approach to common classroom scenarios. Stephen James Minton is a lecturer in Psychology of Education at Trinity College Dublin.

Written by experienced classroom practitioners who are experts in the field of psychology, Psychology in the Classroom provides a thorough grounding in the key principles of psychology and explores how they can be applied to teaching and learning. It draws on both classic and cutting-edge research, offering practical advice on commonly overlooked or misunderstood concepts that contribute to positive academic outcomes. It aims to show the value of psychology in enabling teachers to make and justify everyday classroom decisions. Designed to equip teachers with the skills to identify and tackle common issues that affect students’ learning, each chapter highlights key areas of research and discusses how lesson planning and material design can be informed by the psychological concepts presented. It covers core areas essential for improving learning, including: memory and understanding; creativity; motivation; independent learning; resilience; cognition; and self-theories and mindsets. Full of advice and strategies, Psychology in the Classroom is aimed at both new and experienced teachers, across primary, secondary and post-16 education, providing them with practical ways to apply these psychological principles in the classroom. With an emphasis on understanding the theories and evidence behind human behaviour, this book will allow you to reflect critically on your own classroom practice, as well as making simple but valuable changes.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I Focus: Cognitive aspects -- [I] Intelligence -- I The concept of intelligence -- 2 The development of intelligence -- [2] Thinking, problem solving and concept learning -- 1 Thinking -- 2 Problem solving -- 3 Concept learning -- [3] The concept of creativity -- 1 What is meant by creativity? -- 2 Theoretical approaches to the study of creativity -- 3 Intelligence and creativity -- [4] The creative person -- 1 Creativity and personality -- 2 Environmental influences on the development of the creative person -- 3 Fostering creativity -- Section 11 Focus: Social aspects of the classroom -- [S] Social interaction and social perception -- 1 Methods of research -- 2 Elements of social interaction -- 3 Social perception -- [6] Groups and social influence -- 1 Groups -- 2 Social influence in groups -- [7] Classroom behaviour -- 2 Teacher/pupil interaction -- 3 Pupil/pupil interaction -- Section 111 Focus: The individual in the classroom -- [8] Individual development -- 1 Infancy and early childhood -- 2 The middle years and adolescence -- 3 Two approaches to adult personality -- [9] Individual differences and learning -- I Sex differences -- 2 The child's position in the family -- 3 Date of birth -- 4 Anxiety -- 5 Learning, personality and cognitive style -- 6 Academic motivation -- [10] School achievement -- 1 Exceptional children -- 2 The role of language -- 3 The effect of the home -- 4 The effect of the school -- References and name index -- Subject index

Originally published in 1977, Psychology for the Classroom is offered as an aid to people who are learning themselves and helping other people to learn: that is, to parents, students and particularly to teachers. The activity of teaching, to be successful, requires the teacher to understand the behaviour of the learner as fully as possible. Some of the insights into human behaviour gained by psychologists may prove helpful to the teacher in complementing his or her experience and intuitive understanding, and it is with this in mind that the topics covered in this book have been selected. Section one deals with cognitive aspects, an understanding of which his essential since cognitive processes are the means by which individuals are able to make sense of their environment. Section two considers the social situation in which knowledge and understanding develop, i.e. the way in which social interaction affects learning. Section three focuses on the individual, stressing that academic achievement depends not only on hard work but is intimately related to an individual’s personal development and personality. The book will be valuable to psychology students, student teachers and teachers on in-service courses, for its coverage of relevant psychological research and the description of pertinent experiments and studies of the time. Its originality lies in the way in which it communicates the importance of teachers using psychology as a basis for forming hypotheses which they can test for themselves – not necessarily as researchers, but in a mood of personal exploration.

These books provide an invaluable reference for teachers of psychology. The plethora of teaching strategies and techniques discussed should serve to improve the quality of their teaching. For those who teach high school, college, and graduate students in psychology, education, and the social sciences, these volumes present immediate practical applications and rich sources of ideas. They contain the collective experiences of teachers who have successfully dealt with students' difficulty in mastering important concepts about human behavior. Volume 1 addresses teaching strategies for courses that make up the core of most psychology curricula; introductory psychology, statistics, research methods, and the history of psychology. Volume 2 discusses teaching physiology, perception, learning, memory, and developmental psychology. Volume 3 deals with teaching personality, abnormal clinical-counseling, and social psychology. Each volume contains a table listing the articless in that volume and identifying the primary and secondary courses in which each demonstration can be used.

"Welcome to the eleventh edition of our text. As in all fields, educational psychology rapidly advances, and our goal in this edition is to capitalize on these advances to produce a book that meets three goals: to provide the most conceptually sound theory possible, to include up-to-date research, and to prepare a text that provides the most concrete and specific suggestions in the field for applying the content of Educational Psychology in PreK-12 classrooms. Upon the advice of Kevin Davis, our editor, to reflect the third goal and symbolize an essential thrust of our text, we have changed its name to Using Educational Psychology in Teaching. Many students can describe and explain the topics included in an educational psychology text, but far fewer know how, as teachers, to apply these topics to increase their students' learning. We attempt to reach our third goal above in several ways. First, we introduce each chapter with a case study in which a teacher is applying the content of the chapter to increase student learning and development. We then integrate the case studies throughout the chapters in attempts to make the content of each meaningful for readers and further illustrate how educational psychology can be used in teaching to increase student learning. We expand on this process by including one or more sections in each chapter titled "Using Educational Psychology in Teaching: Suggestions for Applying . . . with Your Students." In these sections we include specific suggestions for applying, for instance, Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development, social-emotional learning, culturally responsive teaching, universal design for learning, social constructivist views of learning, theories of motivation, formative assessment, and so on, in classrooms. We then illustrate each of these suggestions with concrete examples taken from the real world of PreK-12 teaching. As a further illustration, the video episodes on which the case studies integrated throughout chapters 2, 9, 11, 13, and 14 are based are included with the MyLab Education component that accompanies this text. These episodes show the actual classroom lessons and provide students with authentic, real-world insights into learning and teaching, and they will hopefully make the written case studies and chapter content more meaningful for readers. In addition to these specific suggestions we include Classroom Connections, which provide additional suggestions for applying the content of each section at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels, and we include Developmentally Appropriate Practice sections in each chapter that offer suggestions for adapting the content for different developmental levels.Also, in each chapter we include two, three, or four Application Exercises, placed throughout the chapter, that ask readers to apply the chapter content to the real world of teaching. A total of 47 exercises are included in the book's 15 chapters, 38 of which are based on video episodes of approximately five minutes or less, leaving 9 that are based on written case studies. Feedback for all the Application Exercises is included. In the eText we include Video Examples, ranging from approximately 40 seconds to 2 minutes in length, that provide brief, concrete illustrations of the chapter content. The Video Examples are placed next to the topics they illustrate"--