Teaching Preparation

Teaching is an important part of graduate training. Teaching assistants participate in an eight hour orientation before they get in front of a classroom. For senior graduate students, a formal course in teaching (with an emphasis on challenges of teaching experimental psychology) is offered by Michael Turvey, award-winning teacher and world-renowned lecturer. Students' assigned lectures, ranging from Introductory Psychology classes to conference presentations and job talks, are critiqued for organization, clarity and style as well as content. Many survivors of this course have gone on to become award-winning teachers in their own right.