COASTAL BEND PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE
Teaching Conference
Call for Proposals
Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for posters, participant idea exchanges, and Teaching Take-Out demonstrations. Submissions must be related to the teaching of psychology. All proposals received by October 16, 2015 will be considered for the program.
Participant Idea Exchanges (PIEs) are opportunities for presenters to facilitate discussions about ideas and topics pertinent to the teaching of psychology. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, teaching techniques, innovations, evaluation, challenges, and instructional philosophy. Each PIE topic is assigned a separate table, and participants choose topics that interest them, sometimes staying at one table throughout the entire session, sometimes eating the entrée at one table and moving to another table and topic for desert.
Oral papers and posters should present original work pertinent to the teaching of psychology. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, assessment of teaching techniques and strategies, teaching innovations, curricular innovations, strategies and fresh approaches to advising, new course ideas, ways to enrich existing courses, course content innovations, ethical challenges in teaching, and philosophical approaches to teaching. Especially welcome are proposals that include empirical evaluation of the technique or strategy described in the poster.
The Teaching Take-Out is a fast-paced, dynamic session in which participants can get new ideas to use in their classrooms right away. Each presenter will provide a class demonstration of approximately 5 minutes. In this fun event, the audience members will be the class: They will actually participate as students in each demonstration. Each presenter will micro-teach a technique that they’ve created that works well every time, or present their own spin on a classic demo—they’ll show us how they make it new. All presenters should provide a handout with key information about their presentation.
To submit a proposal, complete the following form: