Dear Beth and everyone in Tipsville,
Thank you so much. You are right. I am retiring next year... I do plan to
have a Psychology Fair this year and it will probably be the last one. I do
have several copies of the Psych Fair book, if anyone wants one...I usually
give away Beth's books to students who have done well during the school
term. Why not give a book to a person who wins the Award for the person
with the Most Questions??
Why not give a book to a person who wins the "The Carl Rogers award (for the student
who gave the most UCPR (unconditional positive regard) to classmates)"
or "Best use of
hammer, anvil and stirrups - (student who displays excellent listening
skills)"
I also plan to have one hell of a garage sale of all I have accumulated
over the years, but that is next year.
I have never met Beth Benoit. And like many of you , I have met her through
our correspondence and understand her devotion to teaching.
Beth, I am so humbled by your comments. I really think that TIPS
and PSYCHNEWS have absolutely amounted to the greatest change in my
career as a teacher. There are so many people who ahve helped me be a
better teacher! Many of you have been the greatest and best resource for
me and my students. In the past, I would "hunt" for articles and people,
now, I just have to e-mail people. For example, a few weeks ago my
students got through doing a project involving the history and well-known
experiments and ideas in Psychology. So, why not mail Howard Gardner,
David Myers, David Rosenhan, and Linda Bartoshuk? I can't
tell you how nervous I was opening their return letters!!! It was
wonderful!!!!
Beth, you have donated so many books, ancillaries, transparencies, and so
much more. I am forever thankful for all you have done. My students are
better because now they have resources at home--textbooks--that
can help them.
I am sorry if this sounds so mushy, but, unless one is a high school
teacher, you may not understand the lonely journey of teaching a psychology
course with little or no resources. So finding a resource, such as Beth, a
person to communicate your frustrations and a person willing to help is like a
gift. Beth you are that gift...
Jim
Jim Matiya
Carl Sandburg High School
131st and LaGrange Road
Orland Park, IL 60462
2003
Moffett Memorial (High School Category)
Teaching
Excellence Award of the Society for
the
Teaching of Psychology (Division Two of the
American
Psychological Association
Lewis University.
Romeoville, IL
Moraine Valley Comm. College. Palos Hills, IL
Illinois Virtual High School. Cyberspace?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Beth Benoit
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological
Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>To: "Teaching in the Psychological
Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Subject: Matiya's Psych. Fair (was:
Skinner's two boxes) >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:16:37 -0500 > >Thanks
for the link, Dennis. I've long been curious about that article. On >seeing
"Matiya" in the URL, I figured it was from the webpage of TIPS' own >Jim
Matiya, and when I erased the last phrase in the URL, sure enough, it >was
from Jim Matiya's page. > >We seem to have many new TIPS members, so
I've elected myself to toot Jim's >horn as an award-winning high school
psychology teacher. (I don't have to >recuse myself, since I've never
actually "met" Jim, and have no agenda >here.) But my primary reason for
writing is to suggest, as I have in the >past, that you send extra/leftover
psychology books to Jim for him to use as >prizes in his Psychology Fair,
which he holds in the spring. Since Jim is >retiring soon, this will
probably be the last Psychology Fair at his high >school, unless others are
going to carry the banner after he leaves. > >Here's Jim's email
address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >And here's his original website with
lots of things to interest high school >students (and the rest of us too):
> >http://www.d230.org/cs/matiya/ > >Good luck, Jim! Hope you get
lots of books! > >Beth Benoit >University System of New Hampshire
> >on 3/15/04 8:30 AM, Dennis Goff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >
> Here is a link to the Ladies Home Journal story that Skinner wrote. (Baby
in a > > Box, October, 1945) > >
http://www.d230.org/cs/matiya/new_page_8.htm > > > > Enjoy, >
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