What are your beliefs about the purposes of education?
Planning an Introductory Psychology Course
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This outline is adapted from Ryan & Martens, Planning a College Course: A Guidebook for the Graduate Teaching Assistant, NCRIPTL, 1989.
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What are your beliefs about the purposes of education? |
- Examples: social change, values clarification, knowledge transmission
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What are your goals for Introduction to Psychology? What are department’s goals? |
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What course content should be included in your course? |
- What ways may content be structured?
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What about students' goals and interests? |
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What methods of instruction are available? What methods should you use? |
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What readings should be used? |
- Choosing reading material appropriate to the structure and goals of your class.
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Writing a syllabus (see other handouts) |
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Who do you go to for advice, help, and counseling? |