What is the importance of educational Psychology to teachers?

What is the importance of educational Psychology to teachers?

- Guides teachers in planning, organizing and evaluating the evaluating the teaching and learning activities in the classroom.
- Helps the teacher in formulating learning activities and goals that are appropriate, reasonable and attainable based on the level of the learners.
- Equips the teacher with appropriate principles of learning and teaching and different approaches of teaching for better results.
- Helps the teacher to access and know the abilities and potential of her/his students and guide them accordingly.
- Enable the teacher to select teaching methods that are appropriate to the level and mental abilities of the students.
- Provides the teacher with knowledge on how to motivate learners in ways that facilitate learning
- Enable the teacher to create a conducive climate in a classroom so that learners can learn comfortably without interference
- Provide the teacher with the knowledge to an adequate assessment tool to asses learning outcomes .
- Provides the teacher with knowledge on how to make learning interesting for learners.
- Enable the teacher to understand individual difference of students regarding their abilities, myth, attitudes at different levels of growth and development.
- Enable teachers to understand the curriculum design.
- Enables the teacher to solve different problems faring students especially students with learning difficulties.

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Wilfykil answered the question on March 18, 2019 at 08:10

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