Higher Education Events

Discover effective classroom activities to help your psychology students connect concepts to real-life situations and learn better.

Join Danae Hudson and Noland White to learn evidence-based strategies for applying the APA's Intro Psych Initiative recently published student outcomes, integrative themes, and resources for success.

Join Lisa Shin and Sam Sommers as they discuss the inclusive class experience and teaching strategies they use in their co-taught Psych & COVID-19 coping course at Tufts.

More than 80 years ago, Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky first proposed that make-believe play is a powerful source of symbolic thought and self-regulation in young children. This webinar discusses Vygotksy’s proposal and contemporary research bearing on it, including the role of pretense in fostering young children’s private speech, inhibitory control, socially responsible behavior, and emotion regulation. The current controversy over whether make-believe play is causally related to favorable child outcomes (including self-regulation) is also considered. The webinar concludes with practical implications for parents’ play with young children and for playful educational experiences in early childhood programs.

There are many ways to create powerful learning environments using games. Come find out what the research says about the use of games in the classroom, including healthy versus unhealthy competition, and the importance of matching the type of game to your instructional goals. The focus of the talk will be on the use of brief games that require either simple technology or no technology at all. You will leave with a set of guidelines for how to develop your own games, as well as a list of games that are classroom ready. Who knew learning could be so much fun?

Today's generation of students are different. Surveys of high school and college students going back decades show fundamental shifts in students' attitudes, behaviors, and self-views which means they demand different things in and out of the classroom. This talk focuses on striking a balance between what today's students want and what they need to succeed in the long term.

Psychological scientists have taken an unprecedented and leading role among the sciences in examining the replicability of key findings. In August 2015, the Open Science Collaboration reported that only 39 of 100 studies could be replicated. The implications this creates for psychological science, and our teaching of it, are far-reaching. This webinar will discuss how open science and replication projects create opportunities and further challenges for teaching introductory psychology.

For many of us, a primary objective in teaching psychology is to facilitate students’ active consideration of how the studies, phenomena, and theories they read about apply to their daily lives. This presentation explores how blogging can further this goal. Specifically, I incorporate blogging into my courses in two ways: a class blog where I post related content and students can respond, and a personal blog in which students analyze events from their own lives through a psychological lens. Advantages, challenges, and assessment will be discussed, as will applicability for both in-person and online courses.