Recently, the book "Teaching Psychology: Helping Students to Learn" by Associate Professor Wang Xiaoming from the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction of East China Normal University was officially published by Shanghai Education Press.

The book, based on the theory and research of contemporary teaching psychology, adheres to the concept of "teaching aims to promote student learning", integrates the practical experience of China's outstanding teachers, and focuses on what students learn, how students learn, how teachers promote student learning, and how teachers know that students have learned and other key issues. according to the organizational framework of teaching psychology -- "teaching objectives-learning mechanism-teaching intervention-teaching evaluation", it explains in detail how teachers can design and arrange teaching that effectively promotes student learning based on the knowledge of student learning. , and also discusses teachers’ learning and professional development issues from the perspective of teachers as learners.

Wang Xiaoming, ICI Associate Professor.

Researching Area: Curriculum and Instruction Theory, Teaching and Learning Psychology.

The book is divided into nine chapters, based on the research framework of teaching psychology, and gradually showing the research picture of teaching psychology according to the idea of "goals-learning-teaching-evaluation".

👉 Chapter 1 briefly explains the research tasks, research content, research methods and the creation and development process of teaching psychology.
👉Chapter 2 provides a comprehensive description of the learning outcomes acquired by students in school education. Based on the introduction of the main learning outcome classification theories, a learning outcome classification system suitable for my country's education context is proposed based on the actual education in our country.
👉 Chapter 3 introduces the psychological mechanism of student learning from the aspects of individual cognition and social culture.
👉 Chapters 4, 5, and 6 focus on teaching measures that effectively promote student learning, including the effective presentation of teaching content, teaching strategies that clearly point to students’ learning mechanisms, and teaching models that target specific types of learning results.
👉 Chapters 7 and 8 explain how to evaluate students’ learning results, with particular emphasis on how to use evaluation methods to effectively diagnose students’ learning difficulties and, on this basis, promote students’ learning through remedial teaching.
👉 Chapter 9 focuses on the theme of teacher learning. According to the research framework of teaching psychology, it explains teachers’ professional learning and professional development from three aspects: the results of teacher learning, the psychological mechanism of teacher learning, and the teaching measures to promote teacher learning.

The whole book highlights two combinations: the combination of learning research and teaching research, and the combination of teaching research and teaching practice. The book also shares with us discipline wisdom from teaching psychology regarding the hot issues currently in our country’s education field, such as the “dispute between teaching and construction”, the effective implementation of “consistency of teaching evaluation”, improving teachers’ professional level, and promoting the implementation of core competencies.