PsychSessions: Conversations about Teaching N' Stuff

In this episode Garth interviews Jared Keeley from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Jared serves as the first-year director of clinical training and talks about VCU's urban, community-serving campus and student body. He describes his dual interests in clinical psychology and the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on the Teacher Behavior Checklist (TBC), developed with Bill Buskist, based on interviews with award-winning teachers to create a more theory- and data-informed, formative teaching feedback tool. Jared recounts his path from Colorado to Knox College, Auburn's renowned teacher-training program, and how his work on clinician classification led to field-trial contributions to the World Health Organization's ICD.
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🎙️ What does great teaching actually look like—and can it be taught?
In this RE-RELEASE episode of PsychSessions, Chris sits down with Victor Benassi to explore the science of exceptional teaching and what it takes to truly transform learning in higher education.
Whether you're a new instructor or a seasoned educator, this conversation will challenge, inspire, and remind you why teaching matters.
🎧 Listen now and rethink what's possible in the classroom.
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In this episode Eric interviews Jon Krosnick from Stanford University in Stanford, CA. Jon discusses his cross-appointments and major initiatives, including a new sustainability school funded by a $1.3–$1.4B private gift, hiring about 60 faculty members, and the role of Environmental Social Sciences in ensuring that engineered solutions work with human behavior. He describes the interdisciplinary challenges of building a new PhD core, admits difficulty saying no, and explains the Stanford Institute for Excellence in Survey Research and his focus on meticulous methodology. He recounts training at Harvard and Michigan's Institute for Social Research, Ohio State (18 years), and a fellowship that shaped his ethical perspective. Discussing activism, he says protests may not change attitudes but strongly signal constituent passion to lawmakers; attitude change is often small and short-lived, so campaigns focus on turnout. He also explains Census Bureau work improving household respondent selection protocols and shares his parallel career as a jazz drummer with long-running bands and about 200 performances a year.
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In this AskPsychSessions RE-RELEASE feature, Marianne speaks with Jasmine Mena from Bucknell University. They cover the basics of labor based grading  — an approach that evaluates students on the effort and labor they invest in their work rather than traditional quality-based standards. She discusses how this method empowers students with agency over their learning, and incorporates scaffolded assignments, reflection, and compassion into the classroom.
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Bernie's Dad: Personal Reflections is a short-form, reflective podcast hosted by psychology educator Eric Landrum that explores the surprising parallels between a 35-plus-year academic career and life with a new puppy named Bernie Sanders. Through brief, one-word–titled episodes inspired by psychological descriptors, Eric offers thoughtful, often warm reflections on teaching, growth, patience, and professional identity. Blending humor, insight, and personal storytelling, the podcast invites listeners to pause, reflect, and recognize connections between their own careers, relationships, and everyday experiences.
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