Significance of Educational Psychology to the Teacher

Importance of Educational Psychology for Teachers

  

Teacher is like a philosopher who guides his student. He is responsible to be aware about growth and development of the students. It is educational psychology which enables the teacher to use various techniques.  The importance of educational psychology and teachers has the following points:

1. Educational Psychology helps teacher to know that how learning takes place.
2. It enables a teacher that how learning process should be initiated, how to motivate, how to memorize or learn.
3. It helps teachers to guide the students in right direction in order to canalized student’s abilities in right direction.
4. It informs a teacher, about the nature of the learners and his potentialities.
5. It helps a teacher to develop a student personality because the whole educational process is for student’s personality development.
6. It helps a teacher to adjust his methodologies of learning to the nature / demand of the learner.
7. It enables a teacher to know the problems of individual differences and treat every student on his / her merit.
8. It helps a teacher that how to solve the learning problems of a student.
9. It helps a teacher that how to evaluate a students that whether the purpose of teaching & learning has been achieved.