Earlier this year, I was able to spend time with some of the little humans in my life. One wanted us to play with a wooden doll set they had where you could dress up the dolls and their pets in different magnetic clothes. The toy set is from the Melissa & Doug company. On […]
Last week, Kate talked about an activity she developed to help make the idea of intersectionality more concrete for her students. I’ve love this since the first time I heard about this from her, but I don’t have a kitchen handy for cake making and baking, so I’ve adapted it to fit a more traditional […]
We cover research methods in the latter part of Chapter 1 in the 1st edition of our textbook. We moved and expanded our research methods coverage to Chapter 3 in the 2nd edition of our book. In both of these chapters, we have a feature where we challenge students to find a news story talking […]
Throughout the spring semester, we’re going to be hosting 3 workshops as part of Norton’s Psychology Workshops and Lectures Series. You can sign up to be notified of upcoming Norton events on the site linked above, and I’ll add specific links to the sign-up for each of our sessions as they become available. Session 1 […]
We’re incredibly excited by the release of the second edition of our book. As much as the first edition will always be special to us, we truly believe that the second edition is a major improvement in terms of both aesthetics and content. That said, we’re all teachers who know how overwhelming it can be […]
I tend to be fairly skill-development-focused in my teaching, and this has led me to make a number of my classes writing intensive (WI) or speaking intensive (SI). Most schools have some kind of writing intensive equivalent, but the speaking intensive designation is more rare. It means there are a certain number of required oral […]
