Hi everyone. I am a member of Psi Chi's Steering Committee for the Eastern Region and we are trying to develop panel discussions and symposia under the sponsorship of Psi Chi for next year's annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), which will meet in Pittsburgh, March 5-9, 2009 (http://www.easternpsychological.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1). At this time, we are thinking of having a poupuri-type panel on effective teaching strategies tentatively titled: "Teaching strategies that work for us". The idea is to present something that we do in the classroom that is particularly effective and is kind of unique. Perhaps you have some technique that encourages students to read the textbook, or something that you do in a Statistics or Research Methods course that helps students learn about a difficult topic. For example, as a member of this panel I thought perhaps I would present a couple of exercises that I use in class to deter text misappropriation in terms papers (i.e., plagiarism) or describe what I do to teach students to identify independent/dependent, discrete/continues, and qualitative/quantitative variables (I start with articles, then move to abstracts, then simply use titles of studies). Perhaps you have developed some exercise or technique that you have used over the years, that works particular well, and that you wish to share it with younger faculty. Ideally, you will have some handouts that you can share with the audience for them to take back to the classroom. At any rate, if you are interested please contact me privately and we can discuss it further. If you wish you can send me a short paragraph describing the technique. I will collect everyone's contributions, put together an abstract, and submit it after obtaining everyone's approval. Miguel ________________________________________________________________________ ___ Miguel Roig, Ph.D. St. John's University 300 Howard Avenue Staten Island, New York 10301 Voice: (718) 390-4513 Fax: (718) 390-4347 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm On plagiarism and ethical writing: http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/plagiarism/ ________________________________________________________________________ ___
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