Goal 2: Teachers understand how human development affects learning and apply that understanding to practice.

a. Identify ways students' developmental levels affect their thinking processes and learning.

b. Accommodate differences in how students learn based on knowledge of individual's social, emotional, and intellectual maturation.

c. Appreciate unique thinking processes of learners at different stages of development.

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2.a. Educational Psychology Scenarios

Posted by Fiona Worcester on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, In : 2.a. Educational Psychology Scenarios

In the following assignments for ED631 Educational Psychology, Karin Macklin asked us to come up with how, as teachers, we would respond to the challenging situations below. Each of these scenarios involves a developmental or psychological issue.

MS#4. After reading Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye in your eighth-grade English class, a student comes to you and tells you that, like Holden Caulfield, he wishes to kill himself. How should you respond?

First, I would take a deep breath and r...

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