Six major areas covered by Educational Psychology
are:
• The Learner
• The
learning Process
• The
learning Situation
• The
Teaching Situation
• Evaluation
of Learning Performance
• The Teacher
1.
The
Learner:
Educational
Psychology aquaints us with need of knowing the leaves and deals with the
techniques of knowing him well. Following are the topics studied included in
it: the innate abilities and capabilities of the individual differences and
their measurements, the overt, convert, conscious as well as unconscious
behaviour of the learner, the characteristics of his growth and development at
each stage beginning from childhood to adulthood.
2.
The
Learning Process:
After knowing
the learner and deciding what learning experiences are to be provided, the
emerging problem is to help learner in acquiring these learning experiences
with ease and confidence. Hence, it deals with the nature of learning and how
it take place and contains the topics such as laws, principles and theories of
learning; remembering and forgetting, perceiving, concept formation, thinking,
reasoning process, problem solving, transfer of training, ways and means of
effective learning etc.
3.
Learning
Situation
It also deals with the environment factors and
learning situation which come midway between the learner and the teacher.
Topics like classroom climate and group dynamics techniques and aids which
facilitate learning, evaluation techniques, and practices, guidance and
counseling etc. which help in the smooth functioning of the teaching learning
process.
4.
Teaching
Situation
It suggests the techniques of teaching. It also
helps in deciding what learning situation should be provided by teacher to
learner according to his mental and physical age, his previous knowledge and
interest level. By describing the learner’s characteristics, what teaching aids
are appropriate for the particular subject.
5. Evaluation of Learning Performance
Main objective of education is all round development
of the learner. It includes cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects of
personality. Educational Psychology suggests various tool and techniques for
assessment and evaluation such as performance test, oral test and written test.
It does not stop at measurement only, after the testing results of the test are
anyslysed causes for poor performance, backwardness in any aspect of
development is corrected by maladjustment are helped by guidance and
counselling study habit, examination techniques and learning styles are analysed
and helped the learner so that he can overcome the difficulties.
6.
The
Teacher
Educational Psychology emphasizes the need of
knowing the self for a teacher to play his fole properly in the process of
education. it throws light on the essential personality traits, interests,
aptitudes, the characteristics of effective teaching etc., so as to inspire,
help teacher handle the stress, conflict and anxicty by giving insight in their
own personality.
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