This widely used book is known for its exceptionally clear and engaging writing, in-depth focus on learning, and extensive concrete applications. It concentrates on core concepts and principles, and gives users an in-depth understanding of the central ideas of educational psychology. Up-to-date information includes discussions on critical thinking, apprenticeships, guided participation, setting events, behavioral momentum, positive behavioral support, direct instruction, self-regulated learning, and lesson plans. Six chapters on learning offer a large amount of material to help readers and students examine their own learning and understand how they learn—and then shows them how to apply these concepts as teachers. For individuals interested in a teaching career or the field of educational psychology.

Product Description: Child Development and Education bridges the gap between theory and practice, showing those who teach and care for infants, children, and adolescents how to apply developmental research and theory to everyday practice. More so than any other text, Child Development and Education not only describes developmental phenomena--for infants through late adolescence--but also faciliates observations of and analyses of what children say, do, and create, ensuring that educators can make informed decisions that meet children's and adolescent's needs...read more

Product Description: Essentials of Educational Psychology

Product Description: Unlike most educational psychology books, which take one theory at a time, explain its assumptions and principles and then identify implications for educational practice, Essentials of Educational Psychology focuses more on the commonalities than the differences among theories, because although researchers from different traditions have approached human cognition and behavior from many different angles, they sometimes arrive at more or less the same conclusions...read more

Product Description: This package contains the following components: -0131397958: Observing Children and Adolescents CD -0137133839: Child Development and Education

Product Description: This book presents psychological concepts and principles related to learning, motivation, development, instruction, and assessment. The case studies or artifact cases within this book offer work samples and instructional materials that cover a broad range of topics, including: literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, and art...read more

This practical book examines research and theory about children from birth to age 18. The concepts are solidly based around the activities of schools, agencies, and other settings in which the day-to-day lives of children play out. A wealth of case studies, along with a new Observation CD-ROM with video clips for each chapter, provide understanding into how children develop. By using real-life case studies and genuine feedback from children of all ages, this book provides complete coverage of the following topics: methods of inquiry in child development; physical development; cognitive development; intelligence; language development; literacy development; personal and emotional development; social understanding and moral development; development of motivation and self-regulation; a study of the family; interpersonal relationships; and growing up. An excellent resource for caregivers, child care center directors and employees, social workers, teachers, and parents.

Product Description: This CD-ROM allows users to experience educational psychology topics in an interactive format. Users participate in five "virtual" experiments and draw implications for educational practice. An optional Educational Research track also allows users to explore research and read a journal article or book chapter related to the topic in question...read more

Product Description: This book on educational psychology includes true case studies that illustrate psychological principles related to learning, motivation, child development, diversity, and students with special needs. This book was written to give pre-service teachers the opportunity to "witness" real classroom events, and to "situate" the book's psychological principles and theories within a variety of actual classroom contexts...read more

Product Description: A leading text for introductory educational psychology courses, Jeanne Ormrod's Educational Psychology: Developing Learners is known for its exceptionally clear and engaging writing, its in-depth focus on learning, and its extensive concrete applications...read more

Product Description: Geared specifically to future teachers, this practical new introduction clearly recognizes that an understanding of how children learn and think, how they grow and develop, why they do what they do, and how they differ from one another has innumerable profound implications for effective classroom practice...read more

Product Description: Human learning - principles, theories, and educational applications book