Welcome to This Web Site on the Psychology Learning and Teaching! 

The Spring 2012 syllabus is on the Updates & Assignments page at this website and in Course Documents at our Blackboard site.  The Blackboard site also has the required documents and links from this Google Site organized by week in External Links. Here's a link to the CUNY Portal where you can access our Blackboard Site http://portal.cuny.edu/portal/

What do you already know about the psychology of learning and teaching? Take the pretest on the Teaching page.

My name is Professor Hope J. Hartman; I'm an educational/cognitive psychologist and teach at CCNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. My specializations are in thinking, learning, teaching and instructional technology. Email me at hhartman@ccny.cuny.edu  My regular web site is http://condor.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/~hhartman
This site was developed for students in my Spring 2011 course, Psychology of Learning and Teaching at CCNY. Some of the resources on this web site are REQUIRED while some are OPTIONAL. Carefully look at the text and links in the body of each page as well as the attached documents at the bottom. Consult your syllabus for due dates. Please bring required readings to class with you on their due dates because class activities might be based on them.

 This semester we're going to use my latest book, A Guide to Reflective Practice for New and Experienced Teachers as our text. Please bring this book to class with you regularly!

You can see all my books in print by visiting my Amazon Author page http://www.amazon.com/Hope-J.-Hartman/e/B001KHJMEW/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1264548806&sr=1-2-ent

REQUIRED: WEEK 2

1. A major theme of this course is the implementation of strategies that are consistent with the American Psychological Association's "Learner-Centered Principles", which underlie much current school reform. http://www.avln.org/olexpedition/apa.html

2.  My  graphic organizer of a self-directed learner summarizes many of the characteristics of the Learner-Centered Principles. Click on the image to expand and read it.

This graphic organizer, created with Inspiration, shows the 12 countries (so far) where my students during  Spring 2012 are from.

        

CONSIDER JOINING CCNY'S SOCIAL NETWORK "INYOURCLASS". I started a group called "TIPS FOR SUCCESS" with study strategies for college students  http://www.inyourclass.com  This is a tip I posted 9/2/11 "Read this article on Professors' Pet Peeves to try to avoid making your professors feel annoyed with you. www.huffingtonpost.com/jodi-r-r-smith/professors-pet-peeves_b_943076.html. My own personal pet peeves are students coming to class late and cracking their knuckles. "


OPTIONAL A modern classic, which used to be the textbook for this course, is How People Learn (Expanded Edition 2000). Here's a link to the whole book,http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309070368 which is free to read online.