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Educational Psychology II

This class was divided into two parts, the first on classroom management, and the second (only four weeks long) on providing for individual differences in learning and teaching . Since the two parts were radically different from each other, I shall focus on them individually.

Classroom Management

Not bad. The instructor was competent and taught her stuff. That said, I don't remember a single thing she said or we learned which couldn't have been acquired with experience and common sense.

Grade: B-

Providing for Individual Differences in Learning and Teaching

Awful. This segment was supposed to be about how to deal with disabled people in your class, but our instructor, a scatterbrained and incoherent woman with a PhD, spent all her time drawing silly graphs on the board, outlining her proposals for world peace, and prosyletising. We learned absolutely nothing, unless dubious theories about the relationship between the angle of your ears and how whole-brained you are count as knowledge. Thank goodness it was only four weeks.

Grade: F

Communication Skills for Teachers

A marginally useful course for teachers who can't speak and write properly, i.e. most teachers, but not me. The instructor knew her stuff and wasn't afraid to pass judgement on others; but she did go over the top at times. The assignments were also all done in class: no homework!

Grade: B-
Posted by kungfuzi at 7:43 pm |