TEACHING

In my instruction approach, goals for student learning are twofold: first, students develop academic skills that prepare them for a professional path in psychology and/or other fields. I build classroom activities and assessments to strengthen student's skills in media literacy, oral speaking, presentation development, teamwork, research dissemination, and writing for low and high stakes levels.

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In introduction to psychology, students complete a variety of formative assessments through the semester to strengthen a broad spectrum of skills. In upper level courses such as sexual behavior, social psychology, and psychology of gender I target fewer specific skills to build mastery through formative assessment, ending in summative assessments to track growth. 

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Second, I encourage students to assemble a more nuanced worldview through intersectional feminist, critical, and liberation approaches to psychological research, clinical practice, community engagement/action, and various dissemination techniques (podcasts, blogs, vlogs). I facilitate student experiences in rethinking their own perspectives as a result of their unique positionalities and understanding psychology and its applications through marginalized voices. 

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To learn more about how I incorporate liberation psychology into my psychology of gender class, please check out the video below. Video presented at the summer virtual SPSSI conference, August 2021. 

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