476 episodes
PsychSessions: Conversations about Teaching N' Stuff Garth Neufeld, Eric Landrum
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The original PsychSessions podcast is co-hosted by Garth Neufeld from Cascadia College and Eric Landrum from Boise State University. We leverage our connections with psychology teachers from all levels (high school, community college, college, university) as well as individuals from other occupations to have meaningful conversations about what it means to be an educator. Of course, we veer away from the teaching conversation from time to time to hear about origin stories and the personal perspectives of our guests, touching on current events and topics of interest.
Our ASKPsychSessions feature is hosted by Marianne Lloyd from Seton Hall University. For ASKPsychSessions, listeners submit questions about teaching and learning, and Marianne interviews experts and posts short features with the question and answer together. These features are often be thematically grouped, such as information about making the sudden pivot to online instruction or various aspects of improving equity, diversity, and inclusion instruction in your course.
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E169: Tamarah Smith: Statistical Expert, Influential Teacher, Selfless, Math = Language
In this episode Garth interviews Tamarah Smith from Gwynedd Mercy University in Gwynedd Valley, PA. With expertise in both applied statistics and educational psychology, Tamarah teaches and mentors doctoral students in education. She became connected to the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) world through the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), having served on its Board of Directors. Tamarah recently concluded service on an STP task force about statistics; she has been interested in student self-efficacy and improving math performance for some time. She struggled a bit in her early academic career, so perhaps she clearly relates to the struggles many psychology majors encounter with statistics. When Tamarah had her own epiphany that math is just a language, she began to conquer math and statistics. She mentors and supports doctoral students' development of statistical skills every day.
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Season 5 Episode 02: Pivot Teaching from the 2022 STP Presidential Task Force
In this episode: the Beyond Teaching podcast welcomes special guests Jenel Cavazos from the University of Oklahoma and Chris Hakala from Springfield College. Both served in 2022 on the STP Presidential Task Force on Pivot Teaching.
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ASK089: What is the faculty of color network?
In this AskPsychSessions feature, Marianne chats with Drs. Irene Lopez and Simon Garcia from Kenyon College. They discuss ways to better consider the additional stressors of and ways to support faculty of color. Be sure to check out the resources at their website https://facultyofcolornetwork.com/
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Season 5 Episode 01: Welcome to Season 5, ChapGPT, AI, and More
In this episode: AI and ChatGPT, educator detection or teaching our students to use these tools, how will educators leverage these new tools, what occupations will need to stay away from AI and ChapGPT
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E168: Alison Melley: Teacher of Teachers, Insightful, Generous, Industrious, Forward-Thinking
In this episode Garth interviews Alison Melley from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Alison discusses post-pandemic life, to Zoom or not to Zoom, and the importance of a good microphone. She is embedded deeply into the teaching of teachers, which she provides for graduate students, and she actively explores the possibilities with open educational resources (OER). Alison is at the forefront of putting all this knowledge, skill, and ability together and implementing APA Introductory Psychology Initiative (IPI) themes into her intro course. She considers herself a generalist, even though by training she earned a clinical PhD. Alison discusses how she enjoyed some of the "great" teachers for her and how she does not to to be exactly like them -- and they discuss so much more.
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SB19: Sarah Grison (Introductory Psychology Textbook Author)
Sarah Grison is the author of Psychology in Your Life, a textbook for the Introductory Psychology course. In this sidebar interview, Sarah and Garth discuss the IMPACT framework that she weaves throughout her book, as well as her desire to support both students and instructors.
Customer Reviews
So much more than a podcast!
Psychsessions helped me figure out how to teach college classes! It is a community of psychology teachers, coming together in pairs or small groups, to share their teaching philosophies and strategies, to problem solve and discuss career paths, and so much more. This podcast has been a lifeline as I navigate the world of college teaching - a solo, sometimes isolated endeavor done very publicly. It gave me the confidence to try new things and speak up for change - because I knew there were others out there doing the same. I have laughed, cried, and learned so so much.
A+ for content and accessibility
Teaching conferences are amazing, but they are sometimes cost or time prohibitive. Fortunately, PsychSessions brings SO much of what you’d get at a conference to you, in bite-sized chunks. The hosts are fabulous, some of the best pedagogical wizards out there, and they work very hard to bring in knowledgeable guests across a diverse array of topics. A real gem of a podcast!
The best podcast about psychology and teaching!
If you are interested in psychology and/or teaching psychology, this podcast is a MUST LISTEN! Eric and Garth have managed to interview some of the most innovative, enthusiastic, thoughtful, and amazing psychology educators in the world! Not an exaggeration! They are passionate about helping great psychology teachers tell important stories. This is a treasure trove of goodness for people interested in teaching and psychology!