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Make Your Teaching and Your Life More Enjoyable
This job is miserable; the workload is unbearable, there are too many students, and there are not enough hours in the day to do all the things I need to do. I am so tired
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Building a Sense of Community in Undergraduate Psychology Departments
Imagine you are a student sitting among 300 others in your psychology class. You look around and wonder, “How am I going to fit in? Will I ever make friends in this department? Will my
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Evaluating and Improving Your Teaching
Faculty who take teaching seriously will inevitably ask themselves one especially important question: “How can I become a more effective teacher?” The question implies that an individual’s teaching, no matter how good it may be
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Teaching Quantitative Reasoning
How can psychology contribute to the public good? The Human Capital Initiative (HCI) report, prepared with the assistance of APS, cites an important means of doing so: helping people to improve their statistical reasoning. “The
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Engaging Students With Humor
He wanted to be called Lunch Box instead of his proper name. When I finished writing something on the board, I would usually turn to see him making a comment to a classmate with a
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Asking Questions
Remember how, as a student listening to a lecture, your attention drifted between the words of the professor and sundry personal thoughts? A particular class might have been uneventful had not the speaker suddenly changed
