The next two weeks of the course draw on the following open education textbook (which is licensed under an
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License):
Seifert, Kelvin and Sutton, Rosemary. (2022).
Educational Psychology: Open Education Resource LibreTexts.
Online link:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Education_and_Professional_Development/Book%3A_Educational_Psychology_(Seifert_and_Sutton)PDF link:
https://batch.libretexts.org/print/Letter/Finished/socialsci-10811/Full.pdfIn Chapter 1 of the textbook, Seifert and Sutton directly connect the field of educational psychology to teacher education:
“...you need to prepare for teaching differently than you might have in the past, and perhaps differently than your own school teachers did a generation ago...Many current programs in teacher education provide a balance of experiences in tune with current and emerging needs of teachers. They offer more time for practice teaching in schools, for example, and teacher education instructors often make deliberate efforts to connect the concepts and ideas of education and psychology to current best practices of education. These and other features of contemporary teacher education will make it easier for you to become the kind of teacher that you not only want to be, but also will need to be...There is a lot to learn about teaching, and much of it comes from educational psychology." (pp. 22)
