Co-sponsored by Fort
Lewis College & San Juan
College
Supported by a grant from the BEA and the APA Education Directorate
About the Conference
The 3rd Annual
Mountain States Conference on the Teaching of Psychology - or Mountain ToP
for short - took place in beautiful Durango, Colorado on October 6-7, 2007 and
it was a raging success! The
average participant rating for the overall conference was 4.91 out of 5.
Next year at your
place? See below.
The conference offers
highly engaging and interactive sessions in a small, intimate setting. Our
target audience includes psychology instructors in high schools, community
colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities throughout the Rocky Mountain
region. The 2007 conference included keynotes from renowned national speakers
such as Doug Bernstein, Bill Buskist, and David Daniel as well as hands-on
workshops and stimulating roundtable discussions.
Topics included teaching critical thinking,
research on excellence in teaching, innovative approaches to teaching
statistics, using PowerPoint effectively, and how to make your introduction to
psychology course come alive.
We had
an amazing experience in 2007, with many participants describing it as one of
the most valuable conferences they had ever attended. So let's keep the
Mountain ToP conference alive as a vibrant rotating conference in the Rocky
Mountain Region - how about next year at your place? If interested, please
contact Richard Gorman at (505) 224-3636 ext. 0844 or see his contact details
at http://www.cnm.edu/depts/chss/directory.php
for information and possible "seed money."
