Please post any relevant Announcements or Conference Information that would be of interest to Introductory Psychology Professors
Society for Research in Child Development(SRCD)Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA; March 29th-April 1st, 2007. Even if you cannot attend, the program guide is online so you can find out the 'latest' and 'greatest' in research.
Results from Round table sessions at the PT@CC Regional Conference at Los Angeles City College held on February 16 2007
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Good Teaching Ideas
Group
- 1. Lecture 1st, process 2nd
- 2. Play devil's advocate for unpopular topics
- 3. Bring current event to analyze and apply
- 4. Call on students and learn their names-- use an activity in which you have students tell the class one thing that we may not know about you.
- 5. Panels of people discussing topics- Bring in speakers for panels.
- 6. Practical application exercises- Example- persuasion have students come up and campaing using psychological persuasion techniques
- 7. Extra credit enrichment activities- museums, guest lectures etc.
- 8. Broken stereotypes
- 9. Present materials in different modalities- visual, auditory, kinesthetic
- 10. Use ancillary topics
- 11. Convey enthusiasm!
- 12. Present a social problem, and have students be judge and jury to discuss what the outcome should be-- in small groups
- 13. Set up research study on speed dating to teach research methods and have students participate
- 14. Involve students by conducting experiments with them for example levels of processing activity- (consult your instructor's resource manuals for activities)
Group
- 1. Good Interest Sparkers
Costumes, reproduction and sexuality topics, Relevant media, Humor
- 2 Motivational Strategies
Psychology Club Activities, Allow students to be in charge and participate with them.
- 3 Applicability
Prove what you are talking about and relate things to current events
- 4.Teaching techniques
Small group discussions, review as a preview- like trailers at a movie, vary the learning modality, self-surveys, in-class demos, student presentations, artistic representations of concepts, games- crossword puzzles and pictionary
Group
- 1. Have you ever wondered questions
- 2. True and False opening quiz
- 3. Small group exercises
- 4. What is psychology essay?
- 5. Lightweight play
- 6. Mid-class- 1 minute essay activity about what they have learned
- 7. Popular saying activity
- 8. Fine arts in psychology
- 9. Service Learning Projects
- 10. Movie analysis of a character and psychological concepts that are displayed by the character
- 11. International Collaboration
- 12. Naturalistic observation exercises
- 13. Popular Media Transcript analysis
Group
- 1. Humor- stories and group discuss it
- 2. Research Methods- analyze magazine research and its conclusion
- 3. Physiological Psychology- Get students interested by discussing brain injury and diagnosis before the neuron unit
- 4. Incorporate personal experiences into class
- 5. For abnormal- choose a disorder then demonstrate your pereception of it -- then read book provided background and re-demonstrate it using your newly acquired knowledge
- 6. Explain concepts using vivid- examples
- 7. Use passion in spreading knowledge
Group
- 1. Direct analysis of peer reviewed journal article- section by section-writing assignment
- 2. Utilize Monday health section of Los Angeles Times - students could research articles and write papers
- 3. Send students to participate in various Community service organizations
- 4. Create a program to serve at-risk youth
- 5. Near the end of a lecture stop and ask "What if I am lying?" Critical thinking exercise
- 6. Apply real-life experiences to concepts
- 7. Have students identify core values (so they can understand why they react the way they do to info/ ideas)
- 8. Use 3-minute speed dating to acquaint students or to have them explain the way that they learned the material of the day
- 9. Have students design a behavior modification exercise
- 10. Have students design a psychology concepts scrapbook
- 11. If cell phone rings then it is a pop-quiz for the whole class
- 12. Draw pictures for effect.
Group
- 1. Have students create You tube videos
- 2. Write a song or poem illustrating a psychological construct
- 3. Develop a recipe for
(i.e. a criminal, psychopath, procrastination, stereotype, shyness
- 4. Using Drawing from the right side of the brain exercise to discuss lateralization
- 5. Have students create case studies in groups and then have other groups analyze the case study. Allow for intergroup teaching.
- 6. Inquiring minds want to know 1st day activity
- 7. Find the psychology within- analyze aspects of your culture
- 8. Play the game Taboo with psychological concepts
- 9. Brain vignette diagrams
- 10. Comparing and contrasting motivation- why do we eat, sleep, have sex, get angry- relate to the brain
- 11. Expose students to a variety of different personality tests
- 12. Present a vignette and have students argue the different perspectives on the vignette (utilizing the different schools of psychology)
- 13. Create a psychology mystery
