Lantz Blog post 1 Chapters 1-3

Blog post 2 Readings and videos

Before talking about the readings, I want to talk about the videos. The videos were wonderful in explaining all the different forms of experiments. Even going as far as saying what will work with them and what won’t.  For example the experimental talks about using a horror film versus a documentary to determine who is aggressive after watching. It first talks about what won’t work in the experiment, ie, football players only watching the horror film, and band people only watching the documentary. Instead, he says we split the groups of people in half so it is even. It helps differentiate each way of experimenting and think about other ways each experiment could be used. I have trouble differentiating them. This helped.

The readings from Woolfolk were chapters 1,2,& 3.

Chapter 1

            Discussed the different forms of experiments. However, this book did something I have not experienced… Talking about the concerns of teachers, and what is good teaching. The other educational psyche course I took in Wisconsin.  It was definitely the intro to psych chapter for what it would do via the classroom. This first chapter also introduced different tables and frame works for teaching (IE Danielson's Frameworks for teaching p.10) These are some things I have never heard about but coincides completely with the idea of holistic learning especially for the teacher.

Chapter 2

            This is when the meat starts for the book.  The different developments being physical, personal, social, and cognitive developments. Two theorists are introduced for cognitive development. They are Piaget and Vygotsky. However instead of just stating what these stages are also talks about their limitations.  It compared both theorists stating that Vygotsky was more of the social focus on cognitive development while Piaget is the maturation of the cognitive process.

Chapter 3

            This chapter talks about the physical development.  It also talks about the social context of development. Then a person's identity and self-concept using Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. And finally ending with moral development. This chapter discussed how divorce affects students. It is something I can relate with and found very different because many books do not consider this a big effect on students. But this chapter talked about how

Parents may have less time with the student or have to move to a different place because of financial issues that may come with the divorce. It is a strong stressor and I am pleased it was discussed.