Educational Psychology
John W. Santrock
Case Studies in
Educational Psychology
Chapter 1: • Case 1: Anita Underwood: Anita, an experienced and enthusiastic third-grade teacher, describes in detail her class plans and activities for the first day of the new school year and shares her sense of excitement and her fears. (Third grade—Topic: Classroom Climate, Early Childhood, Evaluation, Teaching Approach) • Case 2: Christie Raymond: Chrisie is a mature woman in the first month of her first fulltime position teaching music in an elementary school. She loves the work as long as the children are singing, but dislikes the school’s emphasis on, and her part in, disciplining the students. Christie’s classroom teaching and after-school bus duty are described in detail. (Elementary school—Topics: Behavior Management, Classroom Climate, First-year Teacher, Philosophy of Education, Social Context of Teaching) Chapter 2: • Case 1: Joyce Davidson: Joyce is not making much progress teaching her remedial English class and is particularly concerned about an extremely shy student who is not responding to her teaching methods and style. (Ninth grade—Topics: Diversity, English Teaching, Instruction, Motivation) • Case 2: Toby: Toby, an elementary school student, experiences difficulties with phonics and basic reading skills. (Elementary school—Topics: Basic reading skills, instructional methods and techniques.) Chapter 3: • Case 1: Carol Brown: After socially integrating her diverse class, Carol sees her efforts threatened when a student’s pencil case disappears and is thought to have been stolen. Her students’ reactions are not what she had expected. (First grade—Topics: Diversity, Moral Development) • Case 2: Scott Donovan: Scott discovers that four of his students plagiarized parts of a lengthy writing assignment. He wonders if he contributed to the problem, given the nature of the assignment and the students’ inability to work independently. (Tenth grade—Topics: Cheating, English Teaching,
Case Studies in
Educational Psychology
Chapter 1: • Case 1: Anita Underwood: Anita, an experienced and enthusiastic third-grade teacher, describes in detail her class plans and activities for the first day of the new school year and shares her sense of excitement and her fears. (Third grade—Topic: Classroom Climate, Early Childhood, Evaluation, Teaching Approach) • Case 2: Christie Raymond: Chrisie is a mature woman in the first month of her first fulltime position teaching music in an elementary school. She loves the work as long as the children are singing, but dislikes the school’s emphasis on, and her part in, disciplining the students. Christie’s classroom teaching and after-school bus duty are described in detail. (Elementary school—Topics: Behavior Management, Classroom Climate, First-year Teacher, Philosophy of Education, Social Context of Teaching) Chapter 2: • Case 1: Joyce Davidson: Joyce is not making much progress teaching her remedial English class and is particularly concerned about an extremely shy student who is not responding to her teaching methods and style. (Ninth grade—Topics: Diversity, English Teaching, Instruction, Motivation) • Case 2: Toby: Toby, an elementary school student, experiences difficulties with phonics and basic reading skills. (Elementary school—Topics: Basic reading skills, instructional methods and techniques.) Chapter 3: • Case 1: Carol Brown: After socially integrating her diverse class, Carol sees her efforts threatened when a student’s pencil case disappears and is thought to have been stolen. Her students’ reactions are not what she had expected. (First grade—Topics: Diversity, Moral Development) • Case 2: Scott Donovan: Scott discovers that four of his students plagiarized parts of a lengthy writing assignment. He wonders if he contributed to the problem, given the nature of the assignment and the students’ inability to work independently. (Tenth grade—Topics: Cheating, English Teaching,