PSYC 2060 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intellectual Disability, Standard Deviation, Direct Instruction
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Teachers often go to workshops and seminars, sometimes on new methods and certain ways to do a type of instruction. Some instructional development courses are required, get better at what they do, learn variety, teaching is ever evolving, looking for research based methods that help them learn methods that make a difference in their classroom. Descriptive research [look, characterize, define things we see in detail] correlation [looking at relationships between 2 different things]*anytime see word relationship, it almost always means correlation* experimental [manipulate independent variable to see its effect on a dependent variable]. ~know what they are and be able to recognize examples~ How something changes over time; growth; improve; adapt. Ways for intentional teachers to get better without workshops and seminars. Other teachers with experience who has success [mentors] Piaget-milestones you had to pass through [discontinuous theory/step by step theory] vygotsky- continuous theory, based on social experiences.