Table of Content

1. Teachers, Teaching and Educational Psychology.
2. Cognitive Development and Language.
3. Personal, Social, and Emotional Development.
4. Learner Differences.
5. Culture and Community.
6. Behavioral Views of Learning.
7. Cognitive Views of Learning.
8. Complex Cognitive Processes.
9. Social Cognitive and Constructivist Views of Learning.
10. Motivation in Learning and Teaching.
11. Creating Learning Environments.
12. Teaching for Academic Learning.
13. Teaching for Self-Regulation, Creativity, and Tolerance.
14. Standardized Testing.
15. Classroom Assessment and Grading.

Salient Features

• “Guidelines” appear throughout each chapter, providing concrete applications of theories or principles discussed.
• “Point/Counterpoint” sections in each chapter present two perspectives on a controversial question related to the field. All topics covered are NEW to the Ninth Edition.
• “Teachers' Casebook” presents students with realistic classroom scenarios at the beginning of each chapter and asks “What Would You Do?,” giving students the opportunity to apply all the important topics of the chapter to these scenarios via application questions.
• “Margin Glossary” provides definitions in the margins of the text, allowing easy access to the terms and their relevant examples as the text is read or reviewed in preparing for tests.
• “Family and Community Partnerships” sections offer specific guidelines for involving families—when demand for parental involvement is at an all-time high—in the various aspects of children's learning.
• “Becoming a Professional” concludes each chapter and is geared directly to the needs of beginning teachers, with textual connections to PRAXIS II, advice for preparing for teaching job interviews, and concrete suggestions for developing professional portfolios and teaching resources.
• “Connect and Extend” sections appear in the margins several times throughout each chapter, linking content to teaching, students' thinking, research, and the news relating theory to authentic classroom settings.
• New Chapter 13, “Teaching for Self-Regulation, Creativity, and Tolerance,” recognizes that there is more to schooling than academics and that educational psychology has much to say about important non-academic outcomes.
• “Reaching Every Student” boxes in every chapter present ideas for assessing, teaching, and motivating ALL of the students in today's diverse classroom.
• An “Enhancing Expertise: Technology and Professional Development” section in every chapter describes how to use the World Wide Web to continue learning after the course and throughout teaching.
• “Passing the PRAXIS” tips in every chapter help students prepare for licensure examinations which may be required in their state and develop a personal study guide for such examinations.
• “Standards and Licensure Appendix: PRAXIS II and INTASC” at the end of the book provides students with a reference for obtaining detailed correlations to PRAXIS II exam topics addressed in the text.
• “Stop/Think/Write” prompts throughout each chapter provide “minds-on experiences” connected to possible student assignments such as interactive journals.
• Suggested by practicing principals and superintendents around the country,“What Would You Say?” sections in every chapter ask students how they would answer possible job interview questions based on the text material.
• “Stories of Learning/Tributes to Teaching,” brief, impactful stories in every chapter, reveal how a real teacher made a difference in the life of a student.