Educational Psychology (Free Online Course With Diploma)
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Key Information
Campus location
Online
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
10 - 15 hours
Pace
Full time, Part time
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Introduction
This diploma course helps you improve your teaching methods to fulfil your role more effectively by exploring classroom psychology. Teaching can be very challenging when confronted with the many different personalities and learning levels of students. How do you accommodate all of these different characters and abilities in a classroom? This diploma course helps you to use your newfound knowledge of psychology to complete this difficult task.
This Free Online Course Includes:
- 10-15 Hours of Learning
- CPD Accreditation
- Final Assessment
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Curriculum
Educational psychology addresses teaching and learning methods and studies the cognitive development and aptitude assessment of learners. This diploma course compares teaching and learning and draws on behaviourism, a learning philosophy that focuses on operant conditioning and its important pedagogic implications. We then investigate psychological and social constructivism.
The course then tackles the most common mental issues encountered in the classroom, including learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), intellectual disabilities, behavioural disorders, physical disabilities and sensory impairments. We lay out the specific skills and strategies required to work with students with these special educational needs. Finally, we examine student development and diversity and discuss its two core elements: gender and culture.
Educators require the desire and guts to stand in front of a class and teach but they also need compassion and special skills to connect with different students. This course is of great benefit to education professionals who would like to improve their teaching. Understanding how learners think and feel can boost your ability to understand and meet their educational needs so sign up to earn a diploma that signals your ability to do so.
Module 1
Introduction to the Learning Process
This module will introduce you to two main learning theories and four different domains of learning. You will also learn about curriculum learning and incidental learning.
Module 2
Behaviourism
You will be introduced to behaviourism and operant conditioning. You will learn about research into operant conditioning using laboratory rats and how this research has influenced learning in the classroom.
Module 3
Constructivism
You will be introduced to constructivism and its two main branches - psychological constructivism and social constructivism. You will also learn about assimilation and accommodation in relation to constructivism.
Module 4
Diploma in Educational Psychology - First Assessment
You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
Module 5
Introduction to Special Education
In this module, you will learn how to correctly define special education and the main responsibilities of teachers who teach students with special educational needs. You will be introduced to the concept of the least restrictive environment and how to modify assessments for students with special educational needs.
Module 6
Learning Disabilities
Learn how to correctly define a learning disability and how to distinguish a learning disability from other types of disabilities. You will be introduced to strategies that can help students with learning disabilities.
Module 7
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
This module introduces Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and behavioural signs exhibited by students. You will learn about the drugs that students with ADHD take to reduce their symptoms and the practical problems associated with taking these drugs. The modules also describe strategies that a teacher can use to teach students with ADHD.
Module 8
Intellectual Disabilities
You will learn how to distinguish between an intellectual disability and a learning disability, and the strategies that teachers use when teaching students with intellectual disabilities.
Module 9
Behavioural Disorders
You will learn about potential types of triggers for inappropriate behaviour. You will be introduced to examples of problematic behaviour that a student with a behavioural disorder might display and strategies for teaching students with behavioural disorders.
Module 10
Physical Disabilities and Sensory Impairments
You will learn to recognise the signs of hearing loss and visual impairment and strategies for teaching students with hearing loss and visual impairment.
Module 11
Diploma in Educational Psychology - Second Assessment
You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
Module 12
Student Development
This module differentiates between learning and development and outlines ways that students' development is relevant to teachers. You will be introduced to different developmental models such as the staircase model and the kaleidoscope model of development.
Module 13
Physical Development
You will learn about puberty and the types of physical changes that occur during puberty. You will be introduced to trends in the height and weight of students, and factors that contribute to a rise in obesity levels. The module also describes the importance of developing motor skills in young children.
Module 14
Cognitive Development
This module introduces the work of the famous Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget who developed the four-stage cognitive development theory. The module outlines the ages at which each of Piaget's stages occurs and describes each of the four stages in detail.
Module 15
Social Development
This module introduces research into social development such as Erikson's eight-stage model of social development. You will learn how changes in social development affect student behaviour in the classroom.
Module 16
Moral Development
You will learn how to distinguish between morality and moral development, and between the morality of justice and the morality of care. The module introduces the work of theorists such as Kolberg and his theory of moral development, and Gilligan's theory of moral development.
Module 17
Student Diversity
This module introduces the concept of individual learning styles in students. You will learn how to distinguish between field dependence and field independence, and between the two cognitive styles of impulsivity and reflectivity.
Module 18
Gender Differences
This module describes ways that gender differences affect students in day-to-day classroom life, and what are the implications of gender differences in the classroom. You will learn about differences in the way that boys and girls usually socially interact, and how teachers can influence gender roles.
Module 19
Cultural Differences
You will learn about bilingualism and compare and contrast the two-second language teaching techniques - total immersion and additive approach. The module helps you identify what a culture is and how language is used differently across various cultures.
Module 20
Diploma in Educational Psychology - Third Assessment
You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
Module 21
Course assessment
Program Outcome
What You Will Learn In This Free Course
- Describe the process of learning in terms of educational theory.
- Compare the two major learning theories: behaviourism and constructivism.
- Identify various psychologists, philosophers and researchers associated with it.
- Discuss trends in contemporary student development.
- Outline key cognitive, social and moral development theories.
- Highlight physical, social, academic and cognitive differences in terms of gender roles.
- Explain how cultural differences can affect students’ educational experiences.
- Lay out the fundamentals of special education.
- Describe the most common types of disabilities encountered in classrooms.
- Generate an individual education plan for a student with special education needs.
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Career Opportunities
Paraeducator
While great teachers remain sources of inspiration across the globe, the fact is that teaching is difficult. Paraeducators step in to bridge the gap between teachers and students. Their presence makes it easier for the teacher to focus on educating and the students to engage in learning.
Distance Learning Instructor
The Internet has revolutionised how we connect and how we access and share information across geographical distances and time zones. Distance Learning Instructors are brand ambassadors of cyber-education in today’s world, where participation and cooperation offer unlimited learning opportunities to anyone willing to take up this valuable medium of instruction.
Tutor
Believing in themselves can take students a significant part of the journey to their destination. By instructing them individually or in groups, Tutors not only reinforce what students formally learn at school in their academic subjects but also bolster their confidence and equip them with useful skills to take school tests and exams or standardised aptitude and admissions tests. Tutors help students keep up the momentum which will carry them to their life and career goals.
Educational Psychologist
Educational Psychologists are trained professionals who help students overcome mental, physical, emotional, and social difficulties that prevent them from participating in academic and non-academic activities.