Services offered by Teachers of Psychology
Assessment
is about judging how well learning is progressing, either
formally or informally, so it includes examinations, marking
and giving students informal help. Teaching psychology is
concerned with identifying what help students need to deal
with different kinds of assessment, including improving
learning or performance skills, or coping with academic and
emotional pressures.
The
curriculum represents the sum and progress of what students
learn when undertaking a course. Planning the curriculum
needs to take into account the skills which the students have
at the beginning and will have at the end; the psychological
aspects of their educational experience and the assessments
used; and the way in which educational development will
happen as the student follows the course.
Students
can learn using a wide variety of materials. Educational
resources vary in how appropriate they are for any given form
of learning; and the construction of effective educational
resources may also require psychological expertise.
Success in
education generally involves using many different skills.
Some syllabuses, like GCSE, make these very clear; for others
the skills are less apparent, although they are still there
(like, say, the skill of putting together a good essay).
Teaching
style concerns the way in which students are helped to learn
by a tutor or lecturer, since different styles are
appropriate for the various types of material and also for
students' needs.