Essentials of Educational Psychology: Big Ideas to Guide Effective Teaching

Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis

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9780133416466: Essentials of Educational Psychology: Big Ideas to Guide Effective Teaching

ISBN 10: 0133416461 ISBN 13: 9780133416466

Publisher: Pearson, 2014

Focused on the “big ideas” of educational psychology, Essentials of Educational Psychology presents the core concepts and research-based strategies that are most directly applicable to teaching and learning. Full of classroom applications and strategies for planning and carrying out instruction, assessment, and classroom management, this unique text helps readers understand how to facilitate learning as teachers. This interactive, media-rich text also is unique in its ability to help readers see and understand their own learning.

From reviews of the book:

“I do not think anyone can write to an undergraduate like Jeanne Ormrod can.”

—Deborah Switzer, Clemson University

“Many similar textbooks suffer from the "everything, including the kitchen sink" problem. This is a mostly-lean and focused text. . . . The extensive examples help with clarity. . . . [And I] appreciate how a chapter starts with theory and research, and ends with lots and lots of useful strategies. This book really matches its subtitle [“Big Ideas to Guide Effective Teaching”]. I . . . greatly value the Cultural Considerations box in each chapter. . . [and] plan to make time to come back and study them again, to improve both how I teach and what I teach my students about learner differences.”

—Kym Buchanan, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

“I see students in my class who are not able to do well in other courses . . . get high grades in this course partly due to the textbook. This text is written in a . . . way for students to get the main points of the material and connect them with real-life examples. In this way, they are able to quickly become successful at understanding the material in a practical and applicable way. This text . . . is [also]a good study tool to use when preparing for licensure exams.”

—Kimberlee Taylor, Utah State University

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Review:

“I do not think anyone can write to an undergraduate like Jeanne Ormrod can.”

—Deborah Switzer, Clemson University

—Kym Buchanan, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

—Kimberlee Taylor, Utah State University

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From reviews of the book:

“I do not think anyone can write to an undergraduate like Jeanne Ormrod can.”

—Deborah Switzer, Clemson University

“Many similar textbooks suffer from the "everything, including the kitchen sink" problem. This is a mostly-lean and focused text. . . . [And I] appreciate how a chapter starts with theory and research, and ends with lots and lots of useful strategies. This book really matches its subtitle [Big Ideas to Guide Effective Teaching]. “

—Kym Buchanan, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

—Kimberlee Taylor, Utah State University

New Multimedia Learning Features Available in the Pearson eText

Embedded videos include examples of elementary, middle, and secondary school classrooms in action as well as one-on-one interviews with children and adolescents.(See pages 35, and 52 for examples.)
Scaffolded analysis exercises in the Practice What You’ve Learned features challenge readers to apply chapter content to reflect upon teaching and learning in real classrooms. (See page 55 for examples.)
Interactive, application-oriented modules present content through screen-capture videos that include animations, worked examples, and classroom videos. (See pages 43 and 48 for examples.)
Classroom Management Simulations give readers opportunities to practice making classroom management decisions. (See pages 270, 320, 325, and 337 for examples.)
Practice for Your Licensure Exam assessments, modeled after questions found on teacher licensure tests, help readers prepare for their certification exams. (See page 55 for examples.)
Embedded assessments with feedback throughout the eText help readers assess how well they have mastered the content. (See pages 26, 38, 41, and 54 for examples.)