PsychSessions: Conversations about Teaching N' Stuff

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Mentoring Series Episode 5 - Seungyeon Lee Feb 01, 2023

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In this episode, Kenzie and Mona chat with Seungyeon Lee of the University of Central Arkansas. Listen as they discuss knowledge vs. perspective, playing multiple roles, increasing belongingness, and setting boundaries. Seungyeon provides insights into the difference between mentoring and teaching and how to support students who are encountering obstacles and collaboratively find solutions. She also shares her experiences being mentored and mentoring across her career including how mentors have supported her as a person, mother, and student, and the long-lasting nature of strong mentoring relationships.

Mentoring Series Episode 4 - Missy Beers Feb 01, 2023

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In this episode, Kenzie and Mona chat with Missy Beers of Ohio State University. Listen as they discuss support networks, multidisciplinary perspectives, and why a spice rack may be the perfect analogy for mentoring. Missy shares insights about mentoring vs. supervising, the parallels of mentoring and teaching, mentoring at the institutional level across disciplines, and the need to normalize struggles while also increasing positive feedback. She also shares her experiences being mentored and advised, leaving academia, thriving in industry, and returning to academia.

Mentoring Series Episode 3 - Jenn Grewe Feb 01, 2023

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In this episode, Kenzie and Mona chat with Jenn Grewe of Utah State University. Listen as they discuss mentoring, values, authenticity, and being vulnerable. Jenn shares insights into mentoring undergraduate students, graduate students, nontraditional students, and students who are parents. She also shares her experiences being a mother and academic, working with students who are facing challenges, and fostering a learner mentality.

Mentoring Series Episode 2 - Eric Landrum Feb 01, 2023

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In this episode, Kenzie and Mona chat with Eric Landrum of Boise State University. Listen as they discuss mentoring, mental health, and even the multiverse. Eric shares his experiences being mentored as an undergraduate, mentoring students on research, learning to use his privilege (e.g., his Help Helped Me Psi Chi presidential initiative), characteristics of a good mentor, the development of students being mentored, informal mentoring, and woodworking.

Mentoring Series Episode 1 - Introducing Makenzie Peterson & Xiaomeng (Mona) Xu Feb 01, 2023

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In this episode, Kenzie and Mona talk about how the mentoring series came about and share some of their experiences making the series.

TLC015: Jennifer Hermann and Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Simmons University Jan 31, 2023

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In this first for On TLC, Chris speaks with both the director and associate director of Simmons University's Center to discuss how they support faculty and where they came from to do this work.

E165: Jason Young: Dedicated Teacher, Traveller, Reflective, Psi Chi Luminary Jan 31, 2023

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In this episode Eric interviews Jason Young from Hunter College in New York, NY. Jason patiently describes that Hunter is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, a senior college with 23,000 enrolled students on Manhattan's upper east side. He shares his joy for teaching in-person classes, and his excitement for social psychology is evident. As an undergraduate, Jason takes a semester away (from the University of Maryland as a political science major) and goes to Indiana University, adds the psychology major there, and then completes his undergraduate education at Indiana. He discusses the disruptions of moving, of adding a major, and he shares his experiences attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota. We chat about Psi Chi leadership experiences, his wonderful photography throughout New York City, and more.

Jason Young on Instagram: jasoninnyc

TLC014: Kevin Gannon, Queens University Jan 24, 2023

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Kevin and Chris discuss Kevin's journey as a director and his book, Radical Hope.

TLC013: Cassandra Horii, Stanford University Jan 17, 2023

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Chris and Cassandra talk about her new work on images of teaching as well as how her career brought her to Stanford.

E164: Emily Leary Chesney: Dedicated and Expert Advocate, Policy Wonk, Operating at The TOPSS Jan 17, 2023

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In this episode Eric interviews Emily Leary Chesney from the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC. Within the Education Directorate, Emily is the Associate Director of the Office of Pre-College and Undergraduate Education. She is the staff liaison to Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools, or, the TOPSS Committee. She discusses her dedication and passion for working on behalf of high school teachers of psychology in numerous forms. Working at APA and the pandemic has brought about change, but the silver lining has been more work flexibility for now. Emily shares some of the details of her undergraduate past, having been a psychology major at Furman University and having taken three courses from Charles Brewer (with fond memories).

TOPSS: https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss

National Council for the Social Studies (which has a psychology community): https://connected.socialstudies.org/home

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