Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

Guide on the Side is the psychology education role I have been trained to provide to you. Psychology (PSI) Tutor:Mentor dips into the Flipped Classroom Model (infographic below), with a twist. In general, the students I study-buddy with attend physical universities or colleges and then hook up with me to take part in active application [...]

Check it out, Psychology Tutor:Mentor (PSI) now has a Daily Gazette~ How excitement! More psychology focused articles and news and, more psychology student resources, like help with reflective journaling. This was my first try at collating material and I will be tweaking material till I find what we all agree is ‘good stuff’. Let me [...]

The Research Topic is, Analysis of Technological, Management and Pedagogical Framework for Virtual Institutes and suggesting a framework for Virtual Institutes. Ravi Limaye wishes to undertake a research study in Open Learning with the following components: a) Opinionnaire from Technical institutes and other stakeholders on relevance, readiness for Open Education for states of Madhya pradesh, [...]

Blogger friend of mine who resides in the UK, Martin Hughes of The University Blog, has had the fantastic opportunity to contribute a Chapter to a book on higher education. And you can access that book, Blue Skies , right here! What a wonderful opportunity to read about the global paradigm shift to an emphasis [...]

Here is a copy of the newsletter I received recently from Mental Health Academy: It was stated perfectly by Anthony Robbins: “We live in an age where we’re drowning in information and starving for wisdom.” Well, we’ve done something about it. We have just launched an exciting new section to our website, the MHA Journal [...]

Today we have a guest post from Sterling Josey, Psych graduate. Counselling uses multiple skills that are useful for the Tutor:Mentor. Common counselling skills include the ability to organise a stable pattern of client sessions; active listening; body language; asking probing, challenging or tentative questions; and paraphrasing/summarising (Steven, 2010). Tutor:Mentors that are competent with basic [...]

____ * ____ Condolences to those in the southern states of the USA affected by the natural disaster tragedy. Best wishes to you all during your current struggles. ____ * ____ My latest issue of ENEWS has arrived courtesy of the School Mental Health Project/ Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA. The National [...]

The International Education Research Symposium was held at the LH Martin Institute this month. Bruce Muirhead reports on the Sympsosiums value for tertiary education in his post, Global vision for higher education needs government support. Despite all signs pointing towards a truly cosmopolitan education system approaching much sooner rather than later, there continues to exist [...]

Happy joy! This is your first year of uni/college and whether you are continuing your ed from high school or are entering academia as a mature aged student, this is a time of excitement plus. O-Week (for the students in Oz) was hopefully a fun-filled frolic and Week 1 saw your map-reading and time-scheduling skills [...]

Continuing on today with my series on tutor:mentor programs for social science students and the potential to influence funding decisions by the Australia Government. Below are my posts to the symposium that my colleague and I are facilitating online for our course at USQ. Basically, the argument that successful tutor:mentor learning support programs jeopardize School/university [...]

This is a critical reflective piece of writing to do with an assignment I am putting together for my tertiary teaching course. I will split it up across a series of posts, otherwise it will be a lengthy read for just one ~:-) My colleague and I who have partnered for the online symposium that [...]

Here is my post for Discussion that I wrote for my online Tertiary Teaching course at USQ. My theme was the low level of statistics literacy amongst undergraduate psychology students. Implications for Undergraduate Psychology programs with regards to: Development of active participatory societies? As graduates they cannot fully participate as they do not know how [...]

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