FF:DPS001 Psychology for teachers - Course Information

DPS001 Psychology for teachers

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Zdeněk Stránský (deputy)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Mojmír Svoboda, CSc.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková

Timetable

each even Friday 13:20–16:35 B32

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Complementory Pedagogical Studies (programme FF, C-CV) (2)

Course objectives

Psychology for teachers: Course offers theoretical as well as practical knowledge, methods for effective teaching to students, extending their qualification as certified teachers on primary and secondary schools. Tips to solve various educational problems will be presented. The course aims to expand understanding of pupils and also to oneself, to improve communication skills a to support chances of healthy co-operation of pupils as well as their teachers.

Syllabus

• 1. Psychology among sciences. Psychology as a human science. Different kinds of psychology - general, specific and applied sciences. Psychology in education.
• 2. Research method in psychology Observation, experiment, interview, survey, anamnesis, test, sociometry.
• 3. Concepts and terms in psychology – mind, consciousness, unconsciousness, experience, behavior, action, personality etc.
• 4. Personality - concept and structure.
• 5. Psychological development. Environmental influences. Self-education.
• 6. Various ontogenetic stages. (Prenatal stage, newborn stage, infant stage, early childhood, pre-school age, school age, pubescence, adolescence, young-adults, middle-adults, mature-adults and old-age.)
• 7. Learning. Classification. Learning process. Learning curve. Intervening variables. Learning methods. Successful and unsuccessful students. Definition, classification and diagnosis of learning styles. Laws of learning. Autoregulation.
• 8. Imagination and creativity. Definition. Development of creativity. The creative process and its components. Creative process in school. Intellectually gifted children.
• 9. Unsuccessful students General aspects influencing the educational success. Causes of school failure. Typical and non-typical unsuccessful student. Educational and psychological intervention.

Literature

• Psychologie výchovy a vyučování. Edited by Jan Čáp. 1. vyd. Praha: Univerzita Karlova - Vydavatelství Karolinum, 1993, 413 s. ISBN 80-7066-534-3. info
• ČÁP, Jan and Jiří [pedagog] MAREŠ. Psychologie pro učitele [Čáp, 2001]. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2001, 655 s. ISBN 80-7178-463-X. info
• ĎURIČ, Ladislav and Jozef ŠTEFANOVIČ. Psychológia pre učitel'ov. 2. vyd. Bratislava: Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo, 1977, 592 s. info
• FONTANA, David. Psychologie ve školní praxi. Translated by Karel Balcar. Vyd. 2. Praha: Portál, 2003, 383 s. ISBN 80-7178-626-8. info
• ŘEZÁČ, Jaroslav. Sociální psychologie [Řezáč, 1998]. Brno: Paido - edice pedagogické literatury, 1998, 268 s. ISBN 80-85931-48-6. info
• VÁGNEROVÁ, Marie. Školní poradenská psychologie pro pedagogy. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Karolinum, 2005, 430 s. ISBN 8024610744. info

Assessment methods

Consultation. The course is closed by the written test. Type of completion: credit.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• DPS004 Psychology for teachers

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: blokově.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• UZB001 Psychology for teachers I
  !DPS001  

Teacher's information

http://www.phil.muni.cz/wupv/home/studium/obory/vzdelavani/doplnujici-pedagogicke-studium-dps/

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