USE OF PSYCHOLOGY TO THE TEACHER

Educational Psychology helps the teacher in many ways as follows:-

1. To understand the learner: Educational psychology helps the teacher to understand the learning capacity, interest,motivation, mental status, overt and covert behaviour, and developmental stages including physical, intellectual, social and emotional developments of the children.
2. To understand the problems of children: Educational psychology helps in understanding the learning problems associated with mental, physical, social and emotional problems of children in the educational process and situation.
3. To understand the learning process: The teacher knows how to adopt the principles, laws and theories of learning in his teaching-learning process. Various appropriate approaches in learning are understood and implemented in the learning process after learning of Educational psychology.
4. To understand the developmental characteristics: An individual passes through different developmental stages such as infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Each stage has its own characteristics. Effective instruction according to development stages is helping to mould behaviour of pupil.
5. To select methods of teaching: Educational psychology helps the teachers to select the appropriate teaching methods in a classroom based on the individual learners and learning environment. It also helps him to develop new techniques and strategies for teaching the heterogeneous group.
6. To improve quality of teaching: Educational psychology aims at helping the teacher in bringing improvement in quality of teaching.
7. To create conducive learning environment: Classroom climate includes setting and management which are to be set in a proper way for the learning of the children. Educational psychology helps a teacher in creating such learning environment to the learners in a school.
8. To make socialization in classroom: Educational psychology helps in developing group dynamics, teamwork, and leadership qualities among the learners.
9. To maintain discipline: Educational psychology advocates self-discipline through creative and constructive activities. It helps the teacher to tackle the problem of indiscipline.
10. To identify the special needs children: The special needs children are the children who need adapted learning instructions, adapted learning environment or adapted learning process. They may be physically disabled, intellectually disabled or learning disabled. These children are identified and provided special services for their learning. Educational psychology helps the teacher to identify such children.
11. To enable teachers for curriculum development: Curriculum should be designed based on the needs and wants of the individual to get accommodated in the present world of development. So, Educational psychology helps the teachers to develop suitable curriculum according to the learners.
12. To render guidance service: Personal guidance, educational guidance, vocational guidance and social guidance are to be given by the teachers for the life betterment of the children. Educational psychology helps in carrying out such a guidance service to the students.
13. To know the teacher himself: Educational psychology helps the teacher to understand himself what he is and how he would be in the educational situation. It also helps him to assess his potentials and teaching abilities. The teacher also understands his emotionality, physical comfortableness, sociability, cognitive abilities etc., after studying Educational psychology.
14. To evaluate the performance: Educational psychology provides the psychological tests to evaluate the learning outcomes of the learner.
15. To conduct the research: Educational psychology helps him to development research attitude to conduct researches to improves the behaviour of individuals in the educational situation.