Seminar in Educational Psychology - PSL 682

This course is a forum for students to put together knowledge and ideas across the sub-disciplines of psychology and an impetus for expansion of thinking. It includes but is not limited to socio development (i.e. issues relating to education), topics such as role theory, attitude theory formation, and change, transitions from home to school, elementary to secondary, and high school to university to work, instructional psychology (i.e. designing, implementing, and evaluating learning strategies and programs from preschool to high school), instructional decision-making (i.e. direct and indirect approaches to interact and help students, teachers, and families to reduce behavioral and academic problems), assisting students with developmental disabilities, contemporary educational problems and motivation, and developing human potentials (i.e. techniques that emphasize human relation skills, self-image, values, and stress management).