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Not everyone cares (as much as I do) about psych and that’s okay with me
I also think it’s important to say that I bring to my teaching an awareness that not everyone cares as much as I do. I think it’s just an important thing to realize that, very possibly, no one cares about the facts of this or that specialty, and we all want a nice compact take-home lesson even while some of us want to specialize. It is great to teach psych classes because they draw from a diverse set of students. And though I’m not shy about being passionate about the material, I do think it’s important to always keep wondering…wait, why does anyone want to know any of this again? We have to keep resetting our perspective, trying to remember why the facts are important, what the theories are that any of the evidence might speak to.
“Professor Kelty-Stephen really gets where students are coming from.”
“Psych isn’t really my ‘thing,’ but I got a lot out of this class.”
“This class tied psych into a lot of other subjects.”
About those tangents:
Part of why there are tangents and convolutions in my lecture is that different people--particularly people from differing backgrounds/interests--need to hear the stuff different ways.
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