Using Psychology in the Physics Classroom: Five Steps to Improving Classroom Effectiveness

• Jo-Anne Brown ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Calgary

     University of Calgary

     Canadá

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 56, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 32-35
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Psychology has been an avocation of mine for almost 20 years, and over the past decade I have begun integrating this knowledge into my classroom. My first introduction to psychology was through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. MBTI looks at preferences in how people interact with the world around them. By recognizing how different students receive, process, and communicate information, and how my communication style likely interacts with theirs, I have been able to improve my competence in the classroom. For example, my student evaluations have gone from the low- to mid-5’s 13 years ago to mid-6’s (out of 7) consistently over the last five years, during which time I have also won four teaching awards and have been nominated for one more at my institution.