Educational Psychology Books

Offers the detail which teachers can make use of in their planning and teaching in order to provide even better opportunities for effective and lasting learning. This book includes a chapter which covers the area of learning difficulties and special educational needs.

Positive psychology is one lens that can be used to investigate factors that facilitate a student's sense of agency and active school engagement. This title offers a comprehensive review of what is known about positive psychological constructs and the school experiences of children and youth.

This text describes current research on how children of different ages acquire writing skills and defines the features of instruction that can play a part in teaching such skills. Topics such as research involving computers and interaction between pupil and teacher are covered.

Explores various findings in neuroscience and combines them with learning in three crucial and interconnected ways: Attention, Emotions and Memory. This book offers evidence of the impacts of diet, television and mineral supplements on learning, both at school and at home. It helps teachers, parents and other educators enhance children's learning.

Introduces Vygotsky's key concepts. This book emphasizes the social nature of learning and examines the importance of issues such as culture, history, language and symbols in learning. It is suitable for those involved with children in the early years.

A guide for those who are interested in improving their teaching, the learning of their students, and at the same time contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning. It intends to bridge the gap between the research and practice of SoTL, with instructions on how to design, conduct, analyze, and write-up pedagogical research.

Presents a teacher training video shot on location in North Wales that analyses behaviours observed in everyday classroom situations. This title explains what drives the behaviours involved and provides practical strategies to manage the behaviours effectively in the classroom.

Dyslexia, the most common learning disability leads to well-documented negative effects on school and, ultimately, adult success. This title provides tools for identifying and addressing dyslexia. It offers a framework for case finding and screening, diagnostic and psychoeducational assessment as well as age- and grade-appropriate intervention.

This text seeks to revisit major theories of motivation and learning in order to evaluate the relevance of each theory to our complex educational environments. The chapters are written by the renowned authors of theories, or authors who have critiqued theories.

This text seeks to revisit major theories of motivation and learning in order to evaluate the relevance of each theory to our complex educational environments. The chapters are written by the renowned authors of theories, or authors who have critiqued theories.

Presents ways to assess children's strengths and weaknesses. This book offers guidance on day-to-day issues like following instructions in the classroom, doing homework, completing chores, reducing performance anxiety, and staying cool under pressure.

Offers ways to assess children's strengths and weaknesses and provides guidance on day-to-day issues like following instructions in the classroom, doing homework, completing chores, reducing performance anxiety, and staying cool under pressure.

Schools rely on consultants to deal with such problems as truancy, student misconduct, emotional disturbances and learning disabilities. This casebook offers assistance in the form of detailed case studies of successful interventions, reported by the people who planned and executed them.

Aimed at providing a preparation for lifelong learning, this book offers a set of resources to help teachers develop classroom practices informed by research. It also takes account of the conditions within schools that are conducive to the promotion, in classrooms, of learning how to learn as an extension of assessment for learning.

Suitable for those teaching 11-16 year olds, this book aims to create independent learners, confident and resilient in their ability to learn and learn well. It contains 50 lessons to teach 50 competencies. It includes teacher's notes on leading the activity. It accompanies a CD-ROM containing the student forms and worksheets.

Enables children to improve their auditory recall ability in a focused, innovative and enjoyable way. Over 40 beautifully illustrated photocopiable activities. Key Stages 1 & 2. Promotion direct to schools by the publisher's education marketing team.

Appealing activities to teach children aged 4+ visual memory skills in reading and spelling. Promotion direct to schools by the publisher's education marketing team.

Contains over 40 illustrated activities to improve the visual perception skills which are vital in effectively accessing the learning environment. This work features tasks that are sorted into topics and cover a range of visual skills such as visual discrimination, matching, size grading, figure ground perception and recall.