Discuss the focus areas/Elements of teaching in Educational Psychology?

1. The subject matter
The subject matter refers to the content. For the content to be learned with ease, it needs
to be selected, organized and presented in a manner that makes its learnable. The teacher
should also deliver the content in fluent and clear communication. In order to succeed in
this task the teacher should take into account the level of difficulty of content for the class
level in order to ensure that the learners assimilate the content.

2. The learner
The learner is a very important element in the teaching learning process. Without him
nobody is learning and of course if nobody is learning there is no teaching. For this
reason the teacher should understand learner characteristics. The learners in any
classroom situation bring differences in personality, learning styles, experiences, level of
motivation, abilities, emotional dispositions, cognitive styles and perception. They bring
differences in social economic backgrounds, cultural orientation, religious and family
backgrounds as well. For these reasons the teacher needs to use appropriate psychological
theories and principles in order to understand each learner and his personality dynamics.
He needs to understand learners in general and social dynamics that promote learning for
each of the learners.

3. The learning process
This is the process by which people acquire changes in behavior, improve performance,
reorganize their thinking, discover new concepts and information. The learning process
involves everything that people do when they learn. From educational psychology the
teacher gets to learn how pupil think and perceive, remember and forget. The teacher gets
to know the conditions that make these behaviors probable and also the conditions that
inhibit them. With this knowledge the teacher can ensure that learning has all the chances
of occurring.

4. The learning environment
The learning environment refers to the surroundings in which the learner finds himself in
and in which the learning process takes place. The learning environment can also be
defined as any factor that affects the learner or the learning process. This refers to the
facilities that are provided for learning. The facilities may be adequate or inadequate for
the use they are put in. They may be safe or unsafe, comfortable or uncomfortable
appropriate or inappropriate.

5. The social climate
When we consider the learning environment we need to focus on the social climate as
well. This is a very important factor as it helps to facilitate learning or to hinder it. The
social climate refers to the human interactions that take place in any classroom situation
between the teacher and the learners. The social climate can be cordial or hostile. The
hostilities may exist between the teacher and the pupils. Hostilities can also take the
nature of intra and inter class fights. A hostile relationship between the school and its
immediate neighborhood can exist in situations where the school is characterized by
hostile social environment learning and teaching are affected negatively.

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NatalieR answered the question on February 10, 2022 at 06:45