An Introduction to Teaching: Psychological Perspectives

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An Introduction to Teaching is intended for students on pre-service and in-service courses who are training to be classroom teachers. Throughout, it explicitly brings the latest psychological research to bear on the range of practical problems routinely met by teachers in the classroom. It offers psychological perspectives to teachers in a critical and practical framework: critical in the sense that limitations and controversies are exposed as well as strengths and ramifications; practical in the sense that psychological perspectives are used to help learner teachers understand their situation and their options in promoting children's learning.

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• Introduction
• Part I Basic Processes
• 1 What is Involved in Learning
• 2 What is to be Learned
• 3 Development and Learning
• Part II Contexts for Learning
• 4 Learning in Classrooms
• 5 Learning Out of School
• Part III Teaching and Classroom Management
• 6 Direct Teaching
• 7 Teaching Through Discussion
• 8 Managing Through Groupwork
• 9 Organising Experience
• 10 Teaching for Order and Control
• 11 Teaching for Autonomous Learning
• 12 Teaching for Diversity
• 13 Ethic and Gender Differences
• 14 Personal, Social and Moral Education
• 15 Managing Time
• Part IV Assessment and Evaluation
• 16 Approaches to Educational Assessment
• 17 Assessment, Teaching and Learning
• 18 Evaluation, Self-Appraisal and Reflection
• References
• Index

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