Iowa Teachers of Psychology 9th Annual Conference

Speakers

Charles Brewer present his 10 commandments
of teaching

Charles Brewer joined the faculty at Furman University in 1967. During 1985-1996, he was Editor of Teaching of Psychology, the official journal of APA's Division 2. Instrumental in organizing and sustaining APA's Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS), Charles was a college faculty representative on that organization's Executive Board. He served as chair of the Advanced Placement Psychology Test Development Committee during 2001-2003. In 2003, the American Psychological Foundation (APF) named its teaching award the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award to honor his eminent contributions to education in psychology, indicating that "Charles Brewer epitomizes what this award stands for." Charles received a 2005 APA presidential citation honoring him as "one of our discipline's most esteemed colleagues" and "in recognition of his extraordinarily distinguished career and, through his teaching and personal example, for making psychology a household word across generations of students."

Ed Willis

Ed will share some teaching activities he has found useful in exploring with students the hypothesis that we are not naturally rational and in helping students understand the psychological dynamics that can lead us into irrational thoughts/beliefs, feelings, and actions.

Ed Willis is a professor of psychology at Central College, where he has taught since 1967. Ed is a Social Psychologist who has taught a variety of psychology courses (Theories of Learning, Abnormal Psychology, Sex Roles, Radical Behaviorism, Psychology of Consciousness, Applied Behavior Analysis, Person-centered Psychology), and these days focuses mainly on General Psychology, Social Psychology, Health Psychology, and A Christian Worldview and Psychological Science. He has spent several semesters in Mérida, Yucatán on the Central College Study Abroad program, where he taught the Psychology of the Mexican and developed, with Jim Schulze, a strategy for involving Central students in research in a culture other than their own; his primary research focus in Yucatán was the study of the beggars of Mérida. Ed served as the Recording Secretary for the Executive Committee of the Iowa Psychological Association from1990-1993, as the Secretary of IPA Division 2: Teaching and Academic Psychologists from 1993-1996, and as IPA Division 2 President in 1999. He served on the Iowa Psychological Foundation Board of Directors from 1993-1998, and since 2002 has been the Treasurer of the Iowa Teachers of Psychology. Ed serves Central College as a Faculty Athletic Representative to the Iowa Conference and the NCAA, and currently is the President of the Central Iowa Classis of the Reformed Church in America.