Course: Educational Psychology

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Course title Educational Psychology
Course code KPS/RPEPS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kovářová Zdenka, PhDr.
  • Beňová Jarmila, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Educational Psychology and its tasks, subject and methods of educational psychology, field development, relationship to other sciences. Second teaching profession - perspectives on teacher preparation for the teaching profession, the characteristics of the teaching profession, demands of the teaching profession, the teacher as a professional. 3. Personality teachers, teacher's approach to teaching, teaching style. 4th Perception of pupils by teachers - teachers' attitudes and expectations of pupils, causal attributions. 5. Personality of the pupil and its structure in terms of school - school fitness, school achievement, school failure. 6. Theory of learning patterns and types. 7th individual peculiarities of learning - cognitive style, learning style (learning strategies, learning approaches), interaction (not influenced) learning styles. 8th Self-learning - theoretical approaches, metacognition and learning, creating meta-cognitive skills in teaching. 9. Motivation in teaching situations - selected theoretical approaches, types of motivation, students' motivation for learning, motivation and boredom, attribution theory and its application in school practice, influencing learning motivation. 10. The rating at the school - the nature, functions, forms of assessment, self-assessment. 11. Communication at school. 12th Climate classroom - definition, basic dimensions of climate research climate in the classroom. School culture, school climate. 13th Socio-cultural background of the student, the theory of socio-cultural handicap. 11. Psychological aspects of examination and classification, reward and punishment. 12. Psychological analysis of causes of bad grades. 13. Demanding life situation and techniques of coping with them.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Students' portfolio, One-to-One tutorial, Group discussion, Individual study, Students' self-study, Self-study of literature, Lecture, Seminar
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 30 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 26 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Orientation in psychological terminology, especially in general psychology, developmental psychology and social psychology.
learning outcomes
The aim of the course is the student: - Become familiar with the concept of learning, approaches to learning; - Be able to define social groups, social norms, know the types of social groups; - To develop professional self-reflection, to know the components of teacher self-diagnostic; - Understand the psychology student, solve disruptive and intrusive uncooperative behavior; - Know the learning styles and learning conditions; - Be able to process and explain the phases of the learning process; - Develop the capacity for objective assessment; - Be able to develop diagnostics and student groups; - Identify the causes of disadvantage;
teaching methods
Lecture
Seminar
Group discussion
Self-study of literature
Individual study
Students' portfolio
One-to-One tutorial
assessment methods
Combined exam
Test
Seminar work
Individual presentation at a seminar
Self-evaluation
Recommended literature
  • FONTANA, D. Psychologie ve školní praxi: příručka pro učitele. Praha: Portál, 1997. ISBN 80-7178-063-4.
  • HRABAL, V., MAN, F., PAVELKOVÁ, I. Psychologické otázky motivace ve škole. 1. vyd. Praha : SPN, 1984.
  • MAREŠ, J. Styly učení žáků a studentů. 1. vyd. Praha : Portál, 1998. ISBN 80-7178-246-7.
  • Mareš, Jiří. Komunikace ve škole. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, Centrum pro další vzdělávání učitelů, 1995. ISBN 80-210-1070-3.
  • Mareš, Jiří. Pedagogická psychologie. Vyd. 1. Praha : Portál, 2013. ISBN 978-80-262-0174-8.
  • Szachtová, Alena. Vybrané kapitoly z pedagogické psychologie. 1. vyd. V Plzni : Západočeská univerzita, 2000. ISBN 80-7082-637-1.


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