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Season 5 Episode 09: Graduate Students, Skills Acquisition, and Peer Reviewing (oh my) May 13, 2023

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In this episode: learning the scholarly skill of peer reviewing, what graduates go on to do and not do, clarifying for our students how the publishing world works

E172: Melissa Beers, Part 3: General Education, Inclusion, Interdisciplinarity, and the Bookends May 09, 2023

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In this episode Garth interviews Melissa (Missy) Beers from the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH – for our first Part 3 episode on PsychSessions. Missy first recounts her career path, from graduate school to business and industry, then government, then research, then back to higher education. She teaches as an adjunct faculty member for a while and then steps into the Director of Introductory Psychology at Ohio State. With redevelopment of the general education curriculum in 2016, Missy was a key player on the Implementation Committee, foreshadowing the future. Missy now directs the "bookend courses" in the gen ed curriculum, about 500 course sections serving about 10,000 students annually. And then there is the assessment conversation, universal design, pedagogy, and inclusion. The interdisciplinarity of the future is now.

Season 5 Episode 08: For Everything There is a Ritual May 06, 2023

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In this episode: we discuss the ceremonies and ritual of academic life, including commencements, convocations, and Psi Chi inductions, and the comparison to life's rituals, like birthdays and weddings (Eric's daughter about to be married at the time of this recording); walking across the seal at Seton Hall, the blue turf at Boise State; feeling the loss of rituals during the pandemic

Season 5 Episode 07: By What Name Should I Call You Apr 29, 2023

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In this episode: how to address professors and professionals, by first name or formal name; pronunciation of names, individual person preferences

E171: Stephen Chew, Part 2: Psychological Scientist, Pedagogical Tinkerer, Leader of Leaders Apr 25, 2023

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In this episode Garth interviews Stephen Chew in a Part 2 interview from Samford University in Birmingham, AL. Steve starts to discuss how he deals with psychological misperceptions in his classroom, leading to his nine cognitive challenges and classic nine-way interaction of teaching effects. Steve talks about the importance of establishing trust and developing competence and the evolving role that ChatGPT may play in all of this. With Bill Cerbin, Steve talks about their cognitive challenge framework as a way of thinking about teaching and learning. Steve mentions his continued work with NITOP and hints at some projects in his future.

Season 5 Episode 06: We Lose A Founding Member of Beyond Teaching, the Doctoral Skill Set, and More About Transitions Apr 22, 2023

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In this episode: more transitions, Asani leaving the Beyond Teaching podcast, the Big Quit/Great Resignation, the skills that doctoral training embeds, actively caring for your own schedule sometimes means purposely quitting

ASK091: How should I think about mistakes in my classes? Apr 18, 2023

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In this AskPsychSessions feature, Marianne talks with Dr. Eugenia Marin from the University of the Basque Country about the role of mistakes in learning.

Season 5 Episode 05: Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and Thinking -- the 2022 STP Presidential Task Force Apr 15, 2023

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In this episode: the Beyond Teaching podcast welcomes special guest Jess Hartnett from Gannon University from the 2022 STP Task Force on Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and Thinking

E170: Chris Cardone with Special Guest Host Jane Halonen: Chris' Retirement Edition and Much More Apr 11, 2023

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In this episode special guest host Jane Halonen joins Garth and Eric to interview Chris Cardone from MacMillan Publishers. Chris announces on the podcast that she is retiring, and while we celebrate with her, it is also bittersweet. In true Chris style, the show notes presented below for this episode were written by Chris:

"Chris would like to thank ALL of her authors and Teaching of Psych instructors who supported her work over so many years. Without them and their kindness, I could not have succeeded in my work or learned so much about psychology. Although I couldn't mention them all in the interview, and I will surely miss naming some here, I would like to especially thank the following authors and psychologists who have granted me so much of their time and consideration over the years, Dana Dunn, Elliot Aronson, Regan Gurung, Diane Halpern, Dave Myers, Barney Beins, Ken Keith, Rick Miller, and Janet Belsky. I want to also thank my wonderful colleagues and team at Macmillan/Worth for all their support and friendship, especially Carlise Stembridge, Dan DeBonis, Andrea Page, Chuck Linsmeier, Shani Fisher, and Kate Nurre. Many thanks to Jane Halonen, Garth Neufeld, and Eric Landrum for letting me share some of my stories working in this wonderful field of psychology."

Season 5 Episode 04: Our Professional Identities, Career Transitions, Two Clinicians Walk Into A Bar... Apr 08, 2023

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In this episode: transitions, professional identities, the rhythms of the academic world, the clinician's world is truly different, the importance of support systems

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