Abstract
This research aims to identify the importance of positive psychology in education and how the concepts can help improve classroom management and teaching quality. 30 pre-service teachers in final year studies from The Education University of Hong Kong were invited to participate in the study. One primary English teacher and one secondary History teacher were asked to share their teaching experience in the video. Two survey studies and individual interviews were conducted. Participants needed to finish a pre-test at first that evaluates the basic understanding of positive psychology and a post-test, emphasizing evaluating how the positive psychology concept in the video can help with their future teaching career and personal mental health. The questions in the pre-test and the post-test are the same, to compare the differences in scores after the training. In addition, the effectiveness of positive psychology teaching was asked in the post-test. 4-5 participants have been selected to participate in the individual interviews. A questionnaire about the understanding and knowledge check of the video was included in the interviews to identify if the video can help to enhance teaching skills in the future teaching profession. The results from the analysis conducted that 1. positive psychology can help to improve classroom management and teaching quality; 2. pre-service teachers can explore themselves and get well prepared through learning positive psychology concepts; 3. pre-service teachers’ emotion management can be improved to utilize in the future teaching profession. The study enhances the understanding of how positive psychology in a classroom can help with the development of students and teachers. On the applied level, this study can inform psychologists and educators who provide a professional teacher training programme.
Original language | English |
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Qualification | Bachelor of Education (Honours) |
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Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- Positive education
- Positive psychology
- Teaching quality
- Pre-service teachers
- Mental health
- Classroom management
- Psychological development
- Capstone Project (CP)
- Bachelor of Education (Honours) (History) (Five-year Full-time)
- Programme code: A5B077
- Course code: PSY4041