Shelby Alward
Educational Psychology
Educational Philosophy Paper
April 30, 2007
My Educational Philosophy
Educational psychology is the application of psychology to understand learners, learning
and teaching. Not only is psychology for learning, it’s used in human development, behavior,
and motivation. There are many stages a person has to go thru, not just physical, but
psychological. In order for children to be able to learn and move through levels of school, they
have to complete Piaget’s stages of development. Not only are there physical developments, but
also mental and moral developments I child must go thru, including Vygotsky’s zone of
proximal development and Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.
Throughout the course, we learned from how to be a good teacher to knowing how to set
up the classroom and how to use the right discipline. Out of all the material, I have four main
topics that interest me the most, and I would most likely think about the most when I hopefully
become a teacher someday. They are motivation, techniques, learners with exceptionalities
/disabilities, and the elements of good teaching. I chose these four because they could be the four
main topics I could really focus on if I was a teacher. Knowing the eleme ...