Since opening with four psychology programs in 2015, PSYCAS, the centralized application service for graduate psychology, has grown to nearly 80 programs at the master’s- and doctoral-levels of training in 2018. For prospective students to PsyD programs, more than one quarter of APA-accredited PsyD programs now participate in PSYCAS. Unfamiliar with PSYCAS? You can learn more here.
“Describe the tongue of a woodpecker,” wrote Leonardo Da Vinci on one of his to-do lists, next to sketching cadavers, designing elaborate machines, and stitching costumes. Da Vinci filled over 7,000 notebook pages with questions, doodles, observations, sketches, and calculations. He nurtured creativity as a habit and skill every day—and it paid off. Da Vinci’s work reshaped multiple disciplines, from science, to art, to engineering.
Women have long been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. In 2015, women made up just 28% of the STEM workforce. One exception is industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology, the subdiscipline of psychology focused on the world of work. In this year’s U.S. News & World Report “Best Job” rankings, I-O psychology is the 21st Best STEM Job and the 2nd Best Science Job.
Luckily for teachers who regularly use lectures to teach, we have many options to create engaging lectures for our students. No longer do we need to rely on embarrassing ourselves by singing and dancing to engage students. While I still sing and dance in my class, I’ve also added some interactive lecture tech tools for the days I can’t hit the high notes. Interactive lectures not only engage students with the content but allow teachers to collect data to check students learning and progress.
How important is social media when looking for a job? According to CareerBuilder.com, up to 70 percent of employers are looking at your social media profiles when considering you for a job.
There is a growing body of research which suggests that blogging can enhance education through reflective practice and can help you to look at your own experiences to improve the way you work. In addition, the emerging field of blog psychology tells us that blogging brings a host of mental health benefits, and it offers us opportunities to expand our knowledge.
Interest in Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the psychology of the workplace, has gained a lot of traction in recent years. Unfortunately, even with increasing interest many Intro to Psychology students, especially non-psychology majors, rarely get exposed to this dynamic field. Why is this exposure important? First and foremost it broadens a student’s knowledge and understanding of psychology’s application in various contexts. This was the main reason I was drawn to I-O as an undergraduate. I attended a predominately business-oriented college and initially planned to major in economics and finance. That changed when I was introduced to I-O — the perfect marriage of my desire to major in business and my new-found interest in psychology. Secondly, understanding I-O can be extremely beneficial in navigating the world of work, an important skill for students who are starting their careers.
Sometimes, keeping students engaged in the classroom feels like an uphill battle. Teachers work long hours, are held to high standards for content delivery, and have a voluminous amount of preparation and grading to complete every day. We all know that experiential activities and inquiry-based strategies are related to student engagement. We are also fully aware that creating classroom environments that employ these approaches take a lot of time. Therefore, in spite of the research, “lecture continues to be the predominant mode of instruction.” [1]
The Odyssey School is a unique, co-educational independent day school in Stevenson, Maryland that meets the specialized needs of high functioning dyslexic children as well as children with other related language learning differences who are five years through 8th grade age. The School utilizes evidence-based methodologies to prepare our students for success at challenging mainstream secondary schools. The program provides a 3:1 student to teacher ratio and focuses on specialized instruction, character education, and opportunities for students to explore and develop their passions, interests, self-awareness and self-advocacy skills.
Recently, I was looking at numbers and trends in employment for psychology degree holders gathered in the 2015 National Survey of College Graduates (I know – I’m a data geek, and I embrace it). As you would expect, the most common occupation reported through the survey was either a faculty or a psychologist providing psychological services (and in some instances both). Having been a graduate student and the director of a graduate training program, that wasn’t so surprising to me.