Practicum Page

The practicum sites I supervise include the Treehouse Childsren's Museum, the DaVinci Academy, and TAing Introductory Psychology.  I consider there practia as exploring "alternative" educational processes. The Treehouse is a children's museum which is designed to promote literacy skills in from toddlerhood to pre-adolescence.  The DaVinci Academy is an Charter Middle and High School focusing on the Arts and Sciences. The TA practicum is design to promote students' psychological literacy through a cognitive apprenticeship.  

 The practicum at all sites involves learning about the nature and process of learning in alternative educational environments. 

Practicum has three goals for students:

a.  To learn how to apply psychological research and theory to a real world setting.

b.  To learn about processes of student learning in alternative educational environments (children museums and alternative schools, college tutoring and mentoring)

c.  To have a first hand experience as a quasi-professional delivering  a psycho-educational intervention.

Details about each practicum is available at each web site (click on a link).