Imagine you are teaching a course in educational psychology to ...

[meagbuch]

Imagine you are teaching a course in educational psychology to future teachers. You want your students to transfer what they learn in your course to how they teach their students. Describe three strategies you might use to help your students apply what they learn in your class to their own teaching practices.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Describe the role that each of the factors below plays in students' ability to solve problems. Illustrate the role of each with a concrete example.
 
  a. Working memory capacity
  b. Encoding
  c. Metacognition

[zhanghao]

Answer to Question 1

Following are several strategies one might use to promote the transfer of educational psychology to classroom teaching

Answer to Question 2

Answers to the separate parts of the question are as follows:
a. Because working memory capacity is limited, students can consider only so many aspects of a problem at once. When a problem is complex and multifaceted, students may have difficulty keeping all of its components in mind at once. The response should illustrate the effects of working memory capacity with a concrete example.
b. How students encode a problem in memory