University of Virginia, Summer Enrichment Program
About this course: I designed and taught this 2-week course for gifted high school students over three sessions of the UVA Summer Enrichment Program.
About this document: In creating this course, it was a challenge to reinterpret my graduate-school knowledge of psychology in a form that younger students could understand (most of my students had just finished the 8th grade). It was also a challenge to come up with enough interesting activities for the 3-hour-long daily classes. I interspersed hands-on demonstrations, brief lectures, multimedia, small group work, and discussions/debates. I also invited a different guest speaker at the end of each day: another UVA researcher currently working on the topic under discussion. I later used one of the most popular lessons as the basis for another course.
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