Alicia’s psychology course delved into emotionality and, more specifically, core emotions. This was a continuation of the previous week’s discussion of emotions, which revealed that, actually, only a tiny percentage of humans can repress their emotions. So much for our
Psychology: Gender Identity Part II
Following Alicia’s excellent lesson plan, we hung two signs (“Strongly Agree” and “Strongly Disagree”) at either end of the room. With the proviso that no one could be neutral (we put a chair in the neutral zone so you had
Writing Workshop + Psychology
Today we listened to the writing of two authors per group (muons and electrons) & offered feedback ideas for revision. So fun to start this process! In psychology, I subbed for Alicia and talked the kiddos through a discussion and
Psychology: Erickson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development
Yesterday we looked at Erickson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, summarized in the chart below. The main idea is that at each stage of development (baby, toddler, preschooler, etc…) there is a central psychological task that needs to be “completed” to
Psychology: Personality Type Posters
The class was a continuation in an exploration of personality. Previously, the students took a version of the Myers-Briggs assessment that sorted their personality types into four color-coded groups: blue/hopeless romantics, green/thinkers, orange/risk-takers, gold/givers & rule followers. We opened the
Psychology: True Colors
The Muons explored personality and took a modified personality test called “True Colors” which was developed by a psychologist who studied under and adapted concepts from the famous Myers-Briggs personality assessment (you know INFP, ETSJ – it’s where we get
Psychology: Child Observation Record (COR)
Today, the Muons conducted the short demonstration observation of young child behavior, that Alicia described so nicely in her last email (I will include some of the information again here too as a reference). The class started with a re-cap, expansion, and
Psychology: Likert Scale
Today, Chris and I did our best with Alicia’s amazing lesson plan on the use of scales for judging things in psychology, and how difficult it is to make something valid and reliable. The kids had a blast acting out