Educational Psychology - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Educational Psychology Level 3 Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Learn about the psychology of teaching and learning. Understand how and why people learn, and how to apply that understanding to bring about changes in people of all ages. This accredited Level 3 course will benefit a wide range of people, from parents (understanding of how their children develop) to teachers/trainers and welfare workers or leisure professionals (e.g. youth leaders).

This course is accredited by ACCPH and allows you to join as a professional member after completion. Membership allows you to add the letters MACCPH after your name (post-nominals).

This ADL course has also been accredited by the CMA - The Complimentary Medical Association. Upon graduation, students will be eligible to apply for CMA Membership. CMA Members in all categories are recognised as the elite in their field.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure: Educational Psychology BPS105

1. Introduction - Development & Learning Theory
   • Piagete's Theory of Cognitive Development
   • Schemes
   • Assimilation and Accommodation
   • Equilibration
   • Piaget's Stages of Development.
2. Behavioural Learning
   • The Evolution of Behavioural Theories of Learning
   • Thorndike's Theory of the Law of Effect
   • Skinner's Theory of Operant Conditioning
   • Principles of Behavioural Learning; Reinforcers
   • Positive and Negative Reinforcement
   • The Premack Principle
3. Information Processing
   • Information Processing Theory
   • A Model of Information Processing
   • Perception
   • Gestalt Psychology
   • Attention
   • Short-Term Memory
   • Long-Term Memory
   • Division of Long-Term Memory
4. Memory Retention & Loss
   • Remembering and Forgetting
   • Interference
   • Inhibition and Facilitation
   • Primacy and Recency
   • Learning Strategies
5. Individual Needs
   • Effective Instruction
   • The QAIT Model
   • Quality of Instruction
   • Appropriate Levels of Instruction
   • Incentive; Time
   • Between-Class Ability Grouping
   • Within Class Ability Grouping
   • Effective Use of Ability Groups
   • Mastery Learning
   • Outcomes-Based Education
   • Individualised Instruction
6. Constructivist Learning
   • What is the Constructivist View
   • Top Down or Bottom Up Processing
   • Generative Learning
   • Discovery Learning
   • Reception Learning
   • Activating Prior Knowledge
7. Motivation
   • Intrinsic Motivation
   • Extrinsic Motivation
   • Factors Affecting Motivation
   • Motivational Theories
   • Behavioural Learning Theory
   • Human Needs Theory; Dissonance Theory
   • Cognitive Dissonance Theory
   • Personality Theory
   • Attribution Theory Expectancy Theory;
   • Improving Motivation
   • Nurturing Interest/Curiosity
   • Providing Incentive to Learn

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Counsellors, psychologists, teachers

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

This course is ideal for those working in, or intending to work in the following occupations:

Family counselling
Psychology
Counselling
Psychotherapy
Social work
Psychiatric nursing
Caring roles
Health professions
Teaching

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