Study Guides
Posted on May 5, 2005
Here's a good place to post resources for your course. You can make a new post for each section. For example, you could put links to study guides in this section.
Content Examples for Personal Project
Posted on May 14, 2005
1. Standards of Effective Pedagogy: What is meaningful learning.
2. The Social Psychology of Albert Bandura
3. Situating Learning In The Classroom
4. Brain Based Learning: Language Acquisition
5. The Millenial Generation as Lifers
6. White Identity Development: Action or Reaction?
7. Becoming Expert: How Good Am I Really At What I Do?
8. Adopting Inclusive Teaching / Learning Strategies: Beyond Invisibility
Poster Examples from Sm04.
Posted on June 25, 2005
Linda's Project.
Jennifer's Construction.
Lisa's Poster.
Mary's Team Project.
Post Modern Critique of Psych. Theory
Posted on June 28, 2005
Feminist critique from Dana Brunanski, a third year student at Simon Fraser University.
Assumptions: Class Discussion
Posted on July 5, 2005
1. all students can learn
2. teachers know their impact on students
3. educators are aware of the importance of their self-awareness
4. play in school starts to diminish as students get older...
5. choice is something that parents, students, and teachers have to make cooperatively
6. the learning environment should be natural
7. change in public schooling is an overwhelming prospect
8. private schools produce better educated students than public schools, generally
9. caring is not currently taught in public schools
10. caring is an important skill that should be taught
11. test assessment doesn't work well overall
12. communication
13. forming relationships
14. helping children with their school homework is a duty of parenthood - bad parents don't do this
15. small is better
Expectancy Value Theory
Posted on July 5, 2005
Places EV Theory in the larger context of psychological research.
Information Processing Paper
Posted on July 5, 2005
Useful information on how we process information.
Scaffolding (in a Vygotskian sense)
Posted on July 6, 2005
Here's a useful reference to scaffolding. Moll describes scaffolding as "the gradual withdrawal of adult control and support as a function of children's increasing mastery of a given task."
