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    Educational psychology helps teachers in many ways. It helps them understand child development and learning processes. Understanding developmental stages allows teachers to design effective lesson plans and minimize classroom problems. It also helps teachers understand individual learners, learning difficulties, and create a supportive learning environment. Overall, knowledge of educational psychology equips teachers to be more effective in their roles.

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    Growth & Development Importance

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    Educational psychology helps teachers in many ways. It helps them understand child development and learning processes. Understanding developmental stages allows teachers to design effective lesson plans and minimize classroom problems. It also helps teachers understand individual learners, learning difficulties, and create a supportive learning environment. Overall, knowledge of educational psychology equips teachers to be more effective in their roles.

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    Educational psychology helps teachers in many ways. It helps them understand child development and learning processes. Understanding developmental stages allows teachers to design effective lesson plans and minimize classroom problems. It also helps teachers understand individual learners, learning difficulties, and create a supportive learning environment. Overall, knowledge of educational psychology equips teachers to be more effective in their roles.

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    Assignment # 01

    Cognition & Development


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    Importance of Growth &


    Development knowledge
    for Teachers
    Madam Zahinah Zahoor
    Hafiz Zaib Rehman
    B.Ed. (Elementary)
    Roll No. E-21
    GCET Kot Lakhpat

    Importance of knowledge of growth and development for Teachers


    Although all children develop in their own unique fashion, as a direct result of both
    hereditary and environmental influences, there is a certain pattern of development that applies
    to nearly all children. It is crucial for todays educators to have a thorough understanding of
    that development. An understanding of basic human developmental stages can be used to gear
    the teachers lesson plans in order to maximize the success of students in both the academic
    and the social realms of their lives. This understanding can also be used to minimize problems
    in the classroom.
    Educational Psychology helps the teacher in many ways as follows: To understand the learner
    Educational psychology helps the teacher to understand the learning capacity, interest,
    motivation, mental status, overt and covert behavior, and also the developmental stages
    including physical, intellectual, social and emotional developments of the children.
    To understand the problems of children
    Educational psychology helps in understanding the learning problems associated with
    mental, physical, social and emotional problems of children in the educational process and
    situation.
    To understand the learning process
    The teacher knows how to adopt the principles, laws and theories of learning in his
    teaching-learning process. Various appropriate approaches in learning are understood and
    implemented in the learning process after learning of Educational psychology.
    To understand the developmental characteristics
    An individual passes through different developmental stages such as infancy,
    childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Each stage has its own characteristics. Effective
    instruction according to development stages is helping to mold behavior of pupil.
    To select methods of teaching
    Educational psychology helps the teachers to select the appropriate teaching methods in
    a classroom based on the individual learners and learning environment. It also helps him to
    develop new techniques and strategies for teaching the heterogeneous group.
    To improve quality of teaching
    Educational psychology aims at helping the teacher in bringing improvement in quality
    of teaching.
    To create conducive learning environment
    Classroom climate includes setting and management which are to be set in a proper way
    for the learning of the children. Educational psychology helps a teacher in creating such
    learning environment to the learners in a school.
    To make socialization in classroom
    Educational psychology helps in developing group dynamics, teamwork, and leadership
    qualities among the learners.

    To maintain discipline
    Educational psychology advocates self-discipline through creative and constructive
    activities. It helps the teacher to tackle the problems of indiscipline efficiently.
    To identify the special needs children
    The special needs children are the children who need adapted learning instructions,
    adapted learning environment or adapted learning process. They may be physically disabled,
    intellectually disabled or learning disabled. These children are identified and provided special
    services for their learning. Educational psychology helps the teacher to identify such children.
    To enable teachers for curriculum development
    Curriculum should be designed based on the needs and wants of the individual to get
    accommodated in the present world of development. So, Educational psychology helps the
    teachers to develop suitable curriculum according to the learners.
    To render guidance service
    Personal guidance, educational guidance, vocational guidance and social guidance are
    to be given by the teachers for the life betterment of the children. Educational psychology helps
    in carrying out such a guidance service to the students.
    To know the teacher himself
    Educational psychology helps the teacher to understand himself what he is and how he
    would be in the educational situation. It also helps him to assess his potentials and teaching
    abilities. The teacher also understands his emotionality, physical comfortableness, sociability,
    cognitive abilities etc., after studying Educational psychology.
    To evaluate the performance
    Educational psychology provides the psychological tests to evaluate the learning
    outcomes of the learner.
    To conduct the research
    Educational psychology helps the teacher to development research attitude to conduct
    researches to improve the behavior of individuals in the educational situation.

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