Bonus Episode #2: Mentoring and Mentorship Opportunities in Psychology

04/15/19 • 16 min

In this Bonus Episode we discuss the impact of mentoring students, ways to find mentorship opportunities on your campus, and end with 3 tips you can implement for mentoring.

In this Bonus Episode we discuss the impact of mentoring students, ways to find mentorship opportunities on your campus, and end with 3 tips you can implement for mentoring.

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Bob Feldman (UMass Amherst), Claudia Lampman (University of Alaska, Anchorage) and Kimberley Duff (Cerritos College) join the podcast to discuss how we can promote student success in Psychology. The conversation starts within the classroom, but also examines student success from multiple perspectives, including assessment, departmental initiatives, administrative issues, and also from an authorship perspective.

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Sex & Gender

Few areas in Psychology are evolving as quickly as Sex and Gender. Three Intro Psych instructors join the podcast to discuss a wide range of topics including how best to keep up with a rapidly changing field, how to ensure all students feel included/represented, and how to break down the stigmas and prejudices that some students come into this chapter with.
Resources

The future of sex and gender in psychology: Five challenges to the gender binary by Janet Hyde, Rebecca Bigler, Daphna Joel, Charlotte Chucky Tate, Sari can Anders

The view that humans comprise only two types of beings, women and men, a framework that is sometimes referred to as the “gender binary,” played a profound role in shaping the history of psychological science. In recent years, serious challenges to the gender binary have arisen from both academic research and social activism. This review describes 5 sets of empirical findings, spanning multiple disciplines, that fundamentally undermine the gender binary. 2018

In class survey tool: Poll Everywhere

DOCUMENTARY - Gender: The Space Between – CBS News Originals explores the intricate world of gender, beyond him and her (March 27, 2017)