Psychology of Learning and Instruction: Implications for practice

Course Code (in greek): ΨΧ0620

ECTS Units: 5

Semester: 7

Professor: Dermitzaki Irini

Course material

Course description

During this course, the student teachers focus on specific issues discussed in the mandatory course “Educational Psychology” and work on their applications in the classroom. The aim is to deepen students’ knowledge and skills so that they will become more efficient in solving everyday problems related with school leaning, achievement, and adaptation in the classroom. Among the topics of the course are the role of intelligence and cognitive abilities in students’ learning and academic attainments, the development of students’ academic self-concept, the development and enhancement of students’ metacognition and self-regulated learning skills by parents and teachers, promoting students’ motivation for learning, teachers’ training in instructing self-regulated learning skills in the classroom, the contribution of social-emotional learning in academic achievement, promoting children’s socio-emotional skills, etc.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student teachers will be able to:

• discuss on the role of students’ cognitive and socio-emotional factors in their learning and academic attainments and discuss on the role of parents and teachers in promoting students’ skills and knowledge
• use their knowledge and skills in order to plan and implement activities at an initial level for facilitating and supporting students facing difficulties in learning and classroom adaptation
• spot, analyze and synthesize findings and information from the relevant literature, interpret them and critically evaluate them in order to appropriately respond to psychoeducational problems regarding behavior and learning in the classroom
• successfully communicate to non-experts knowledge, ideas, problems and their solutions regarding foundational psychological concepts and factors associated with learning and students’ adaptation in the classroom context

Evaluation

Short essays during the courses (up to 50% of the total scoring) and final study/essay (up to 50% of the total scoring)

Teaching methods

Lectures, studying and reflecting on papers, elaborating student cases, essay writing under guidance