Course: Psychology for Teachers I

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Course title Psychology for Teachers I
Course code FF1/003
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hadraba Vojtěch, PhDr.
Course content
1. Teachers personality, motivation for the teaching profession, formal education and personal life journey 2. Ability to communicate and develop learner motivation. 3. Working with the classroom and individuals, engaging problem learners in classroom and school life. 4. Communication with parents of students. Hyperprotective families indifferent and threatening to the healthy development of students. 5. Basic methods of social psychological practice in solving problems in the classroom, connecting class life with the outside world, field trips, study stays, educational events, Olympics, sports and humanitarian events, volunteeer activities. 6. Risk factors in the teachign profession. 7. Too much involvement with the school world and lack of contact with people outside the teachign profession. Exhaustion and burnout, personal and family problems, addiction to cyberspace, alcohol and drugs, sexual abuse. 8. Notes on the educational psychological problems of the contemporary student population. 9. Growing psychological problems, especially anxiety, sexual identity insecurity, self-harm, depression, eating disorders. Declining ability to cope with the normal demands of life, declining resilience to stress and to deal with personal problems. 10. The growing dependence on social networks and its fatal impact on the quality of life of children and young people. 11. Exceptionally gifted students and students with borderline ailities to cope with the demands of school. The importance of recognizing high giftedness and developing it.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Introduction to pedagogical and psychological issues of teaching in secondary school, support of motivation for the teaching profession and acquisition of necessary knowledge to maintain and develop the mental health of students and teachers.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active participation in class discussions; seminar paper on a selected and agreed topic of 5 standard pages and its defence in a colloquium, examination.
Recommended literature
  • KNOTOVÁ, Dana a kol. Školní poradenství. Praha: Grada, 2014. ISBN 978-80-247-4502-2.
  • Matějček, Z. Praxe dětského psychologického poradenství.. Praha: SPN, 2011.
  • Vágnerová, M. Školní poradenská psychologie pro pedagogy.. Praha, Karolinum, 2005.


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