The Three Best Things About Teaching: Students, Parents, and Community
Students maturing into their full potential under the guidance of caring adults; that’s the true definition of education. The old joke goes that the best three things about teaching are June, July, and August, but in reality, the three best things about teaching are students, families, and community.
Multitasking, Music’s role in Creative Thinking and Coping with Trauma and more in this week’s news roundup
I-O Psychologists’ Passion Projects: Improving the Ways Scientists Communicate their Findings
We continue our exploration of the field of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology, the American Psychological Association’s Division 14. If you’ve read our recent blogs, you already know that I-O Psychology is the study of behavior in the workplace. I-O Psychologists frequently help businesses better hire, motivate, and retain employees, but they can apply their skills in many other ways.
This interview series is all about I-O Psychologists’ passion projects and showcases how I-O professionals are applying their training to try to make a difference in the world. If you missed the first two blogs of this series, you can read the interviews with Drs. Haley Woznyj: I-O Psychologists’ Passion Projects: Animal Rescue and Ann Marie Ryan: I-O Psychologists’ Passion Projects: Increasing Fairness For Job Seekers With Criminal Records.
Meet Mike Morrison, a doctoral student in Michigan State University’s Organizational Psychology program. Doctoral students routinely attend the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s (SIOP‘s) Annual Conference, where they present their research to other I-O graduate students, academics, and practitioners, and strive to ultimately publish articles describing their research in I-O journals.
Presence of Learning Styles on Twitter, Your Guide to Flying Solo at APA 2019…and more in this week’s news roundup!
Beyond the Textbook: Practical Applications for Teaching and Learning in Psychology
As psychology educators, we often have our favorite topics or specialties that we love to teach, but also have areas where we find it more challenging to build student engagement or interest. If you are looking for some new ideas, the Books for Psychology Class blog can help you find new inspiration or a fresh approach for difficult to teach topics.
Does Psychology Have A Conflict-Of-Interest Problem?… and more in this week’s news roundup!
Communicating Psychology: Developing Undergraduate Ambassadors to Share Science
As a semester comes to a close many college instructors take time to reflect. Whether it is through institutional evaluations or our own instructor solicited student feedback, it is important to consider how our courses met designed learning outcomes and the needs of our students.
This past semester I prepped a new course called Communicating Psychology Science. Here is a selection of what my students said they learned:
New Research Casts Doubt on the Summer Slide, 100 Best Psychology Books of All Time and more in this week’s news roundup!
Building Better Students: The Early Learning Guidelines Toolkit
Educating a young child (never mind a classroom full of them!) is far more complex than, say, building a wooden chair. Wouldn’t it be helpful then, to have a toolkit filled with the scientifically supported resources needed to help educators most effectively assemble the building blocks of growth and development in their young students?