Educational Psychology
Course Outline
Course Fee: $90
ACF Approved CEH: 15 Hours
Subject Area: Culinary Education
Course Approved By: The American Culinary Federation
Instructor: Amber Johnson
The fee for this course includes access to all online course materials and an official certificate of completion from chefcertification.com. Once your course is completed, your course completion will be authenticated, and a certificate of completion will be generated. This official certificate of completion will be uploaded to your account, and available through the course dashboard for this course.
Introduction/Course Description:
Throughout this course, we will be taking a look at the 'learning' process. We will start with the anatomy of the brain and examine how we process/make decisions, and how those decisions are reflected in our personality traits. We will also explore individual learning styles and identify instructional strategies aimed at each of those styles, types of intelligence's, and teamwork. These lessons will provide the foundation for developing your own classroom teaching strategies.
Course Objectives/Program Outline
Module One-Mental Development
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the different quadrants of the brain.
- Compare and contrast Maslow's and Glasser's theories.
- Articulate the differences in the way each person processes information.
- Analyze Bloom's Taxonomy and the three learning domains.
- Appreciate the value of an enriched environment.
- Value the importance of a safe and needs fulfilling learning environment.
Quiz: Multiple-choice questions that pertain to objectives above.
Module Two-Developmental Factors
Learning Objectives:
- Illustrate the importance of heredity and environment while critiquing the "nature vs. nurture" controversy.
- Assign distinct attributes of an adolescent: physical changes, the importance of groups, conformity and self-identity and ways to resolve conflict.
- Examine adulthood in respect to the time of life when one tries to bring everything together into a whole.
- Differentiate the myths and realities of the similarities and dissimilarities between males and females.
- Evaluate Piaget's four stages of child development, and differentiate between the three stages of moral development.
Project 1: Values and Beliefs
Quiz: Multiple-choice questions that pertain to objectives above.
Module Three-Personality Types
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the differences between type A and type B personalities.
- Appreciate the differences between introverts and extroverts.
- Recognize the age-old personality types first formalized by Hippocrates.
- Examine and value the different traits of each personality type.
Project 2: The Jung Typology Test
Quiz: Multiple-choice questions that pertain to objectives above.
Module Four-Learning Styles and Communication
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the three different types of learners.
- Develop materials, activities, and projects that address the various intelligences found in the classroom.
- Characterize the eight ways of "being smart."
- Understand how our communication styles affect others.
- Explain all of the components that make up communication and the art involved in using it effectively.
- Appreciate and value the importance of clear and concise expectations.
Project 3: Learning Style Survey
Quiz: Multiple-choice questions that pertain to objectives above.
Module Five-Teamwork
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the social, collaborative, and task dimensions of teamwork.
- Investigate the steps needed and the stages of development required that teams must prepare for and adapt to the challenges of collective work.
- Review strategies that experiential learning offers in building social bonds, analyzing problems, and implementing decisions.
Quiz: Multiple-choice questions that pertain to objectives above.
Final Exam
multiple choice questions taken from each module
Final Learning Statement
Learning statements should be in a narrative format – as opposed to an outline format. Depending on individual writing styles Learning statements should be 2-3 pages. The learning statement can vary according to individual style. Your learning statement should answer the broad question of "what did you learn?". To help get you thinking, here are some suggested questions:
- What are the major concepts of the course that you have learned?
- What new professional language have you acquired relating to the topic?
- What teaching techniques for implementing new strategies in the classroom did you come away with?
- Thinking back to your project reflections, were you surprised at the outcomes?
- What new resources did you find in the study of the content?
- As an educator, what new concepts will you now integrate into your teaching?
- Are there any ideas that presented themselves as enlightening and useful?
Requirements for Course Certificate of Completion
The following are the general course requirements for issuing a certificate of completion for this course:
- Student must receive 80% or better on each module quiz as well as the final exam
- Student must complete all course projects as outlined within the course (if included in course)
- Student must complete a Final Learning Statement at the end of this course
Not Currently Teaching/Summer Option
If you are not currently teaching (ie. Summer break, you are a substitute teacher, etc.), each class offers you the ability to complete coursework independent of a classroom assignment.
