Tag Archive: education
The Ideal Classroom Environment to Maximize Learning for All Students
Description: My PowerPoint on the ideal classroom environment for education psychology class.
By Richard X. Thripp
April 26, 2011
EDP 2002 Prof. John Connor
Daytona State College
On SlideShare.net and embedded below.
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Tags: classroom layout, procedures, educational philosophy, behavior management, learning environment, competition, cooperation
Local download links:
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110426-ideal-classroom.pdf (1.0MB)
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110426-ideal-classroom.pptx (1.0MB)
I, Richard X. Thripp, hereby release this presentation and all associated metadata under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License license.
I wrote these three essays over the past few days for my Intro to Teaching course. I’ve decided not to go into the education field (I would like to do something with computers instead), but enjoyed writing these essays on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, my philosophy of education, and creating a positive learning environment in schools.
Professor John Connor, Student Richard X. Thripp
Course EDF 1005 Spring 2011, DSC, 2011 April 25
Three Personal Essays (15%) (Introduction to Teaching 3rd edition, Kauchak/Eggen)
6.) What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Why should teachers know Maslow’s theory? What are the implications for good teaching?
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a categorization of the needs which Maslow considers most basic to humanity to most abstract, organized into five categories, which are, from most basic to most complex, physiological needs, safety, needs of love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The physiological level includes needs that will result in quick death if not met, i.e. inhalation of oxygen, ingestion of food and water, and excretion thereof. This level also includes sleep, sex, and homeostasis. The safety level includes security of life, family, liberty, and property; the love/belonging level includes friendship, family, and sexual intimacy; the esteem level consists of self-esteem, confidence and achievement, and bidirectional respect; and finally, the self-actualization level involves morality, creativity, spontaneity, the search for truth, just behavior, and problem-solving. Like a pyramid, all the levels build on each other and the higher levels rely on the lower levels. Maslow has an optimistic view of humanity and says that once a human’s deficiency needs (D-needs) are met, he/she can focus on B-needs (being needs), which could be the high-level pursuit of personal growth. By this definition, people in third-world countries may have a hard time reaching …
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A Selection of Landmarks and Geography of China and Nearby Countries
Description: 11-slide presentation on the Great Wall of China, geography, religions, a few landmarks, Taiwan, Beijing, elephant safari, the Petronas Towers, Teresa Teng.
By Richard X. Thripp
April 19, 2011
EME 2040 Prof. John Connor
Daytona State College
On SlideShare.net and embedded below.
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Tags: china, geography, taiwan, great wall, petronas towers, buddhism, beijing, safari, elephants
Local download links:
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110419-eme2040-cai.pdf (2.2MB)
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110419-eme2040-cai.pptx (2.2MB)
I, Richard X. Thripp, hereby release this presentation and all associated metadata under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License license.
An Analysis of the Educational Impact of Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
By Richard X. Thripp
April 16, 2011
EDF 1005 Prof. John Connor
Daytona State College
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Tags: education, gardner, multiple intelligences
Local download links:
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110416-edf1005-cai.pdf (1.4MB)
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110416-edf1005-cai.pptx (4.2MB)
I, Richard X. Thripp, hereby release this presentation and all associated metadata under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License license.
The Educational Contributions of Jean Piaget, Howard Gardner, B.F. Skinner, and Albert Bandura
By Richard X. Thripp
April 12, 2011
EDP 2002 Prof. John Connor
Daytona State College
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On SlideShare.net and embedded below.
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Tags: accommodation, assimilation, bandura, gardner, multiple intelligences, piaget, psychological constructivism, skinner, reinforcement, self-efficacy
Local download links:
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110412-psycho-edu-thinkers.pdf (0.6MB)
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/20110412-psycho-edu-thinkers.pptx (1.1MB)
I, Richard X. Thripp, hereby release this presentation and all associated metadata under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License license.
Below are five summaries of podcasts by Dr. Anita Woolfolk on Education Psychology I wrote today for a class I am taking in the same subject.
Educational psychology is a very prevalent and helpful field in today’s society. It can be the cornerstone of understanding the rationale and mindset of students within an educational system. A degree in educational psychology and a masters in educational technology can complement each other in the classroom.
Podcast Summary 1 (3%): Podcast #1 – The Importance of Teachers
According to Ms. Anita, “Teacher involvement and caring is the most significant predictor of student engagement in school,” at all grade levels, because as Abraham Maslow noted, people need to belong and feel safe, so supportive teachers give higher self-esteem, more motivation, less chance of dropping out, and help facilitate a better understanding of the course materials, lifelong learning, and understanding, trust, and respect at all levels, even when having to discipline students for misbehavior, missed days, or not turning in assignments on time.
A study that followed students from 3rd grade through 5th grade found that the average mathematics achievement score from students who had the most effective teachers through all three grades was in the 96th percentile, which is to say it was in the top 4%. Students who had the least effective teachers through all three grades were in the 44th percentile, which is to say they were below 56% of the other students. Teachers are the most important influence on students in the classroom.
Podcast Summary 2 (3%): Podcast #3 – No Child Left Behind
According to Ms. Anita Woolfolk, while states have some say in defining standards for adequate yearly progress (AYP), test scores, and proficiency among students, all schools must reach proficiency at the end of …
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Below are five essays I wrote over the past few days for my Educational Psychology course at Daytona State College. All references to the textbook reference this book (PDF, 3MB, 365 pg.).
E-Journal 1 (4%): What is the role of educational psychology in understanding teaching and learning? How can we use research to understand and improve teaching?
Educational psychology is the study of how students learn and develop, so understanding it helps teachers adapt their lesson plans and teaching strategies to promote independent learning, cooperation, caring, collaboration, metacognition and psychological development, while demoting frustration, fears of helplessness, dependency, and apathy.
One example of a theory that may help with understanding learning is the chart on page 69 of our textbook (Golobuk & Fivush, 1994), which says that teachers often give praise to boys for correct knowledge and to girls for compliant behavior, overlook compliant behavior with incorrect knowledge in boys and misbehavior with correct knowledge in girls, and criticize misbehavior in boys and incorrect knowledge in girls. This means that teachers will often praise boys just for behaving, even when they are misinformed, whereas girls are praised for good behavior, with inappropriate behavior and the core lesson plan being overlooked. Knowing this, a new teacher or a veteran teacher can adapt his/her lesson plan to avoid such pitfalls, while being careful not to overcompensate in the opposite direction.
Research helps us to understand and improve teaching by giving us a deeper example of learning. For example, it has been shown that fluent bilingualism gives a definite cognitive advantage by allowing students to understand that languages assign words to objects or concepts which can be manipulated and changed (pg. 72). Therefore, teaching students English and Spanish or another language can help them write stories and essays with more …
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If you have 3 apple pies and 19 people, how should you slice the pies so that each person gets an equal share? Each person should get 3/19 ≈ 0.1579 pies, but if you make each pie into 6 slices, that’s only 18 slices for 19 people. You have to slice each pie into 6 and 1/3 slices, with each slice being equal except the 1/3 being smaller, and then give the three 1/3 slices to the 19th person.
What if you have 1 pie and the Half-Blood Prince from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the only person dining? Then you have 2 pies per person, assuming he’s half a person. In the expression 1/(1/2), move the denominator to the numerator and flip the ex-denominator, making the reciprocal and thereby converting division to multiplication. 1/(1/2) becomes 1*(2/1) which is just 2, because any number without a denominator has a denominator of 1.
Your neighbor lends you $8000 at 3.75% interest compounded annually, with no payments being required for 25 years and the full balance and interest being required to be repaid at that time. What is the payment? $8000*1.0375^25 ≈ $8000*2.5102 = $20,081.34.
What if you want to make a graph of the increasing amount owed on the Cartesian coordinate system where y is the number of years and x is the dollar amount in thousands? Use the equation y = 8*(1.0375^x).
PROBLEM: Your truck gets 15 miles per gallon in the city and 19 mpg on the highway. Your destination is 38 miles away as the crow flies, 42 miles away through the cities, and 49 miles away if you take Interstate-95. However, taking the interstate requires 5 miles of city driving. How many gallons of gas will be used on each route, which one uses the least gas, and how …
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I’ve decided to mirror the Educational Psychology textbook for Prof. John Connor’s EDP2002 course on DaytonaState.org. View/download it here (3MB, PDF, 365 pages):
http://daytonastate.org/files/edu/EducationalPsychology.pdf (3MB)
