The Brain and Learning Psychology

I’ve been a teacher for years and have observed a lot of different teaching and learning styles but it was only since I’ve been studying Instructional Design that I’ve been able to consistently solidify things that I learned and knew but didn’t know all of the terminology or psychology of what I was seeing.

This week I’m posting a few articles that are great for the terminology and basic understanding of current learning style beliefs.

The first is from a site called: Simplypsychology.org. I found this site to be an excellent resource that does a great brief break down of not only the 5 main perspectives (aka. theories / psychological approaches) but developmental, abnormal and Social psychology in addition to a Famous Psychologists list that has information on the Psychologist (such as Freud, Piaget, etc.) and their perspective beliefs.

This is a great one stop for people like myself who sometimes need a quick reference and don’t want to dig through tons of websites or notes to be able to look up a theory or get more info. The pages have links that you can keep going into more depth on whatever it is you’re trying to learn about.

http://www.simplypsychology.org/perspective.html

http://www.simplypsychology.org/

Then next site is (despite having some really small text on some pages) is a great resource for how Research on the Brain can Inform Education from SEDL (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory). What I like the most besides the useful info was at the bottom of the article is a chart called “Implications for Teaching“. This chart has Recent Research Suggestions paired with Teaching Suggestions and I find it really useful.

http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v03n02/1.html

http://www.sedl.org/