2009 Keynote Speakers
Ellen E. Pastorino (PhD,
Florida State University, 1990) is a developmental psychologist who
established her teaching career at Gainesville State College in
Georgia, where she created the college's Teaching and Learning Center,
working with faculty to promote student learning. For the past decade,
she has been teaching at Valencia Community College in Orlando,
Florida. Here, too, she has worked with faculty in designing
learning-centered classroom practices. Dr. Pastorino has won numerous
teaching awards including the University of Georgia Board of Regents
Distinguished Professor, the NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award, and
Valencia's Teaching and Learning Excellence Award. Dr. Pastorino is
co-author with Susann Doyle-Portillo of What is Psychology?, an
introductory psychology textbook. She has published articles in The
Journal of Adolescent Research and Adolescence, but her main passion
has always been to get students excited about the field of psychology.
Ellen's current interests include assessment, inclusion, reaching
under-prepared students, and service learning, and she was recently on
the faculty at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology
(NITOP). Visit her website at http://faculty.valenciacc.edu/epastorino/
James Nairne (Ph.D, Yale University, 1981) is a leading researcher in the area of memory and cognition. He taught for several years at the University of Texas/Arlington and for the past 20 years has been on the psychology faculty at Purdue University. He has received several distinguished professor and other teaching awards during his tenure at Purdue and he has been a frequent speaker at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. His extensive work on memory has been highlighted in dozens of articles in a variety of publications over the years, and he is also the author of a leading psychology textbook: Psychology: The Adaptive Mind. He is the current editor of Memory & Cognition and has served as editor or board member of a half dozen other psychological journals. Visit his website at: http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~nairne/home.html
Brian L. Burke (PhD, University of Arizona, 2003) is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Fort Lewis College, a public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado. Brian is a licensed clinical psychologist whose principal academic interests include motivational interviewing and college teaching. Motivational interviewing is an emerging evidence-based treatment for substance abuse and other problems that integrates the relationship-building skills of client-centered therapy with active strategies for change. Brian regularly presents at teaching of psychology conferences, twice winning the Doug Bernstein Poster Award for innovative teaching ideas (NITOP 2004 and 2005). Brian describes his teaching using the acronym M.O.R.E., as he believes the four key elements to a successful class are: (1) Meaning, applying the material to students’ lives; (2) Organization, structuring the syllabus, assignments, and overall course in a coherent manner; (3) Relationship, connecting with students and conveying respect and caring for them; and (4) Engagement, getting the students to interact with each other, not just with the instructor. Brian won the New Faculty Teaching Award at Fort Lewis College in 2005 and originally hails from Montreal, Canada. Visit his website at: http://faculty.fortlewis.edu/burke_b
Richard M. Gorman (PhD, Fordham University, 1970) received his BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in educational psychology from Fordham University. Over the years, he has taught at several colleges and universities—both in the East and West—and is currently a member of the Psychology Department at Central New Mexico Community College. He has taught courses in developmental, educational, and cognitive psychology, but is currently concentrating on the introductory psychology course. His publications include a text in the psychology of classroom learning, an introduction to Piaget's theory for teachers, and, more recently, an introductory psychology text. He has given presentations and workshops on discovery learning to various audiences including the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP). Dick was featured in a recent interview that appeared in Teaching of Psychology.