Welcome to Ed Psych 401!

Today was the first day of Educational Psychology 401 and it was great! I was very nervous going into the class since we had homework before the first day of class, but once I went all my worries went away! Anne seems like she is going to be a great teacher and really has a passion for this class and teaching. I am so excited to learn more about all the topics.

My personal objectives for this class are to learn how to better help my students. I see that we will be talking about classroom management, classroom assessments, personal and social development as well as many other topics. These are the topics that interest me the most. I hope to gain more insight to how my students will grow, learn, and process and why they may have certain behaviors. In some previous psychology classes, I have found the topics difficult, but I have a feeling this class will be able to provide me with practical use in my classroom. 

As I mentioned above,  classroom management, classroom assessments, personal and social development are the topics that catch my interest at first glance of the syllabus. I want to have a comfortable, and safe classroom environment and will strive to learn all I can to help create it. At this point, I don't have too many concerns. It always takes a week or so to get into the swing of things and learn each teacher's routine. I think once I get a handle on how everything works, I will be just fine! I am very excited for this class and am happy to know now that it is nothing like Ed. Psych 210!

In class, we learned about quantitative and qualitative research. Quantitative can be easily converted into numbers where as qualitative cannot. We also touched on action research which includes finding out how you can work more effectively in your school.

If you want to find out more about what makes quantitative different from qualitative research, visit this website.