Catherine L. Reed

Teaching

Teaching Goals:

• To cultivate critical thinking -- particularly the ability to examine one’s own assumptions. 

• To cultivate creative thinking -- science and education are wonderfully complicated and complex. 

• To increase awareness that science and psychology are alive and ever changing – science requires a passionate intellect to engage difficult and complex questions

• To increase awareness that a good question is far more valuable to the advancement of knowledge than an easy answer. 

Teaching Philosophy:

• Diversity among students in how they learn matters.
• Classrooms should integrate various formats for learning and evaluation. 
• Students learn better when they are active participants in the learning process and when they are encouraged to share their viewpoints. 
• Diversity of opinions are respected and viewed as invaluable to the learning process. 

Teaching Strategies:

• Interactive lectures
• Group activities
• Teaching technology (e.g., on-line brain atlases, creating group projects on Sakai). 
• Writing assignments and tests that stress course content, writing ability, critical analysis of class material, & creative thinking. 

• Introduction to Psychology (Psy 030, Fall 2008)
• Controversial Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience (Psy 131, Spring 2009)
• Cognitive Neuroscience (Psy 096: Neuropsychology, Spring 2009)
• Art and Science of Human Action (Psy ???, Fall 2008
• Imaging Cognition (hands-on fMRI analysis experience; Fall 2009?)
• Neural Bases of Perception
• Memory and Cognition