Saundra Boyd
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Contact Me
- Email: saundra.boyd@hccs.edu
- Phone: 713.718.6244
- Office: Intercultural Education Building, Room 231
Courses
- PSYC 2301 Introductory Psychology--Distance Education (SS)
- PSYC 2314 Lifespan Development--Distance Education
- PSYC 2314 Lifespan Development
- PSYC 2370 Cross-Cultural Psychology--Distance Education (SS)
- PSYC 2306 Human Sexuality
Biography or Teaching Philosophy
Teaching is an adventure: Learning is an adventure. One must be be aware of how one learns in order to learn. Teachers have limited control over how that process occurs. Research shows that if one can relate new information to what one already knows, that information is more likely to be remembered. For that reason, I am strongly advocating that the learner use the information being learned as often as possible.
One opportunity to practice this experiential learning is in Service Learning--volunteering in the community where one can use the information one is learning in a real world setting that is somehow related to the new information one is learning.
For example, if a psychology students volunteers to tutor students in the VAST Program at Central, one can relate those experiences to what they are learning about how the mind works, types of learning, motivation, and self-efficacy.
If psych students volunteer at St. Joseph House and mentor mentally ill adults who are rebuilding their lives, one can relate that experience to concepts of self-development, generativity, and abnormal behavior.
If they go to Houston Food Bank and fill boxes with food to be distributed to women's and homeless shelters, they can relate that experience to nutrition, brain development, health, etc.
Or, one can volunteer at YWCA and use their knowledge of psychology to help young folks develop their sense of self, their self-esteem or their physical abilities.
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