APA & Clark University Workshop for High School Teachers
Schedule
This schedule represents a draft schedule of 2008 Workshop events. Please check back in mid-July for the final schedule for our next annual workshop.
Monday July 21, 2008*
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9:30 - 10:00 AM |
Registration, Common Room Area, Blackstone Hall 1st Floor |
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10:00 - 10:30 AM |
Welcome and Introductions in Jonas Clark Hall Room 370 |
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10:30 - 12:00 AM |
Session I: History Nancy Budwig, Associate Provost, Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, and Professor of Psychology Mott Linn, Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Lunch, Jonas Clark Hall Room 370 |
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1:00 - 2:30 PM |
Session II: An Experiment To Remember Jeanne Blakeslee (St. Paul's School for Girls, Brooklandville, MD) Teaching the Experimental Method Through Anecdotes Tack Chace (Shrewsbury High School, Shrewbury, MA) |
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2:30 -3:15 PM |
Break; Optional Tour of Psychology Labs and G. Stanley Hall Room Jonas Clark Hall, Rooms 358, 311, and Bliss Family and Child Study Center in the Basement |
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3:30 - 4:00 PM |
Convene in Lasry Center / Coffee Break |
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4:00 - 5:00 PM |
Keynote Address: Imagery Engineering: Designing Presentations to Facilitate Subsequent Mental Imagery of the Material Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D., Harvard University |
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5:00 - 5:30 PM |
Q & A with Dr. Kosslyn |
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5:30 - 6:00 PM |
Break |
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6:00 PM |
Reception and Dinner Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall |
Tuesday July 22, 2008**
| 8:00 - 8:30 AM | Breakfast available at the Lasry Center for Biosciences |
| 8:30 - 10:00 AM |
Session IV: Lecturing on Theories and Contributions of Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson Tack Chace (Shrewsbury High School, Shrewsbury, MA) Marrying Content and Process: Marcia's Identity Development Jeanne Blakeslee (St. Paul's School for Girls, Brooklandville, MD) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 AM | Coffee break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 PM |
Session V: Motivation and Development Wendy S. Grolnick, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology |
| 12:00 - 1:15 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:15 - 1:30 PM |
Photo Opportunity |
| 1:30 - 3:00 PM |
Session VI, Emerging Adulthood: The New (and Longer) Road from Adolescence to Young Adulthood Jeffrey Arnett, Ph.D., Research Professor of Psychology |
| 3:00 - 3:30 PM |
Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 PM |
Session VII: Using a WAIS Subtest to Teach Concepts in Standardized Testing Jeanne Blakeslee (St. Paul's School for Girls, Brooklandville, MD) The Importance of Context for Memory: An Experiment Jeanne Blakeslee (St. Paul's School for Girls, Brooklandville, MD) |
| 5:00 - 5:45 PM |
Break |
| 5:45 PM |
Dinner, Barbecue on the Green, outside Higgins University Center |
Wednesday July 23, 2008**
| 8:00 - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast available at Lasry Center for Biosciences |
| 8:30 - 10:00 AM |
Session VIII: Using the Online Psychology Laboratory to Teach the Scientific Bases of Psychology Maureen McCarthy, Ph.D., Kennesaw State University |
| 10:00 - 10:15 AM |
Break |
| 10:15 - 10:45 AM |
Session IX: Group Discussion: The Most Interesting Things I Learned in the Last Few Years Moderators: Jeanne Blakeslee (St. Paul's School for Girls, Brooklandville, MD) and Tack Chace (Shrewsbury High School, Shrewsbury, MA) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 AM |
Closing activity |
* Please note that informal teaching activities and discussions will take place in Blackstone Hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings after dinner. Time to be determined.
** All daytime sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday will take place in the Lasry Center for the Biosciences.