Essays on School Psychology

While Lightner Witmer has been largely credited with the conceptualization and creation of a separate field of study for school psychology (D’Amato et al., 2011), it has it’s true roots, in many ways, in the creation of the IQ test. The IQ test was pioneered by Alfred Binet who was specifically interested in the standards of the normal mind. Today, the Binet-Simon scale, first generated in 1905, is still used in schools to determine a child’s overall ability to perform certain tasks (Binet & Simon, 1905). Perhaps more significantly, however, it was significant that Binet recognized that ...

Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a coherent framework of evidence based, multilayered practices to support the educators and enable them to respond to the urgent issues at once. MTSS and its assessment framework can resolve both academic and behavioral issues. In the current case, the educators have targeted several difficulties that have to be addressed by a thorough and correct evaluation. First of all, it is not yet clear if Joe’s problem is a behavioral problem, academic issue, or the mixture of both. Secondly, the educators do not have the baseline information that would provide evidence about ...

Introduction

Education is essential in fostering cognitive and moral developments in a learner. In fact, Churchill (103) argues that learning institutions ought to base their curriculum on the betterment of student’s knowledge by fostering ethical values such as equality, fairness, lack of discrimination and respect for culture. However, residential schools threatened the development of this conservative ideology through the establishments of their education systems. They fostered not only cultural discrimination but also student abuse. According to the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, the establishment of these institutions was based on two core objectives, which included the isolation of young ...

Self-actualization is the process of realizing one's full potential - to really work hard and find out what you are capable of. Understanding the mind has been a particular passion of mine for a very long time - ever since my teenage years, I have struggled with my endless curiosity about why people do the things they do. Furthermore, I have always wanted to learn more about what people can do to better themselves. Realizing that I want to help people with their own emotional and life-related problems was a huge moment for me, and one that has brought me to ...