{"id":34725,"date":"2026-05-06T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/citl\/?page_id=34725"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:47:39","slug":"faculty-spotlight-labouff-fy26","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/citl\/faculty-spotlight-labouff-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"faculty-spotlight-labouff-fy26"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-wrap.wp-block-kadence-rowlayout.kb-row-layout-id29762_6502a5-13{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}.kb-row-layout-id29762_6502a5-13 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id29762_6502a5-13 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id29762_6502a5-13 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:60px;row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1268px;padding-top:30px;padding-bottom:0px;grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 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data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading29762_85b7af-61\">2025 SEATLE Award Winner &#8211; Faculty Spotlight<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<style>.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:80px;row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1268px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:30px;grid-template-columns:minmax(0, calc(60% - ((80px * 1 )\/2)))minmax(0, calc(40% - ((80px * 1 )\/2)));}.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a{background-image:linear-gradient(6deg,rgb(8,46,88) 53%,rgb(65,118,161) 67%);}.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a .kt-row-layout-bottom-sep{height:250px;}.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a .kt-row-layout-bottom-sep svg{width:125%;}.kb-row-layout-id34725_05ed9f-7a .kt-row-layout-bottom-sep 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1024px){.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column34725_6da35f-63{align-self:auto;}}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column34725_6da35f-63 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column34725_6da35f-63 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;align-items:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column34725_6da35f-63 > .kt-inside-inner-col{padding-right:35px;padding-left:35px;flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;align-items:center;}.kt-row-column-wrap > .kadence-column34725_6da35f-63{align-self:center;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column34725_6da35f-63{align-self:auto;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column34725_6da35f-63 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column34725_6da35f-63\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2\"]{padding-top:0px;margin-right:-10px;text-align:left;font-size:32px;font-weight:900;font-style:normal;font-family:stratum-1-web;text-transform:uppercase;color:#082e58;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2\"]{text-align:center!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_d4b818-f2\">Dr. Jordan LaBouff<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4\"]{font-size:18px;line-height:2;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_e0cfbe-d4\"><strong>Name<\/strong>: Dr. Jordan LaBouff<br><strong>Title<\/strong>: Associate Professor of Psychology and Honors<br><strong>Department<\/strong>: Psychology and Honors<br><strong>How long have you been at UMaine?<\/strong> 14 years!<br><strong>SEATLE Award for: <\/strong>&#8220;The Dungeon Master of Curriculum Design&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column34725_874507-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{display:flex;}.kadence-column34725_874507-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column34725_874507-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column34725_874507-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column34725_874507-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}.kadence-column34725_874507-b0 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kt-row-column-wrap > 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mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74\"]{text-align:left!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_0588a1-74 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.kt-inside-inner-col{display:flex;flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;align-items:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column34725_ae098a-a9\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac\"]{font-size:20px;font-weight:900;font-style:normal;font-family:stratum-1-web;text-transform:uppercase;color:#3698d4;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac\"]{text-align:left!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<h3 class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16e094-ac\">Courses you Teach<\/h3>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0\"]{margin-top:0px;font-size:18px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0\"]{text-align:left!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_af62a8-e0\">n Honors, I\u2019ve taught every course in the curriculum: Civilizations 1-4, as well as tutorials on designing boardgames, creating a podcast about the scientific study of religion, and a Calderwood Seminar on writing for the public about religion and spirituality, along with supervising Honors Theses.<br><br>In Psychology, I teach general psychology (PSY100), direct and teach our Research Methods course (PSY245), and teach a capstone course in the Psychology of Religion.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56\"]{font-size:20px;font-weight:900;font-style:normal;font-family:stratum-1-web;text-transform:uppercase;color:#3698d4;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56\"]{text-align:left!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<h3 class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_7f4294-56\">Tell us a bit about you<\/h3>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_b92650-67\"]{margin-top:0px;font-size:18px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_b92650-67\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_b92650-67\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_b92650-67\"]{text-align:left!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_b92650-67\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_b92650-67 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_b92650-67\"><strong><em>What\u2019s a surprising fact most people don\u2019t know about you?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br>For about 5 years I was a roller derby referee for Central Maine Roller Derby here in Bangor. My nickname was \u201cOso Loco\u201d and I had the chance to referee more than 100 games in at least 9 states and 3 countries. It\u2019s an incredible community, and I learned so much about teaching during my time as a ref!<br><br><strong><em>What\u2019s the most surprising thing a student has ever taught you?<\/em><\/strong><br>That is so hard! There\u2019s not a week that goes by that I don\u2019t learn something fascinating from students. It\u2019s genuinely my favorite part of teaching. One thing I am regularly learning from and with them is that there is power and beauty in allowing yourself to be open and vulnerable. If we approach anything thinking we have the answer, or with jaded cynicism at the world\u2019s horrors, then we\u2019re closing ourselves off to growth and missing the beauty of the world. A recent graduate Alex Morgan was kind enough to gift me John Green\u2019s The Anthropocene Reviewed, and I feel like one of its chapters captures that idea I\u2019m continually learning from students like her. You can listen to the author read it here. I particularly love the second half &#8211; <em>Sunsets<\/em>.<br><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know exactly how to describe this, but there\u2019s something deep within me, something intensely fragile, that is terrified of turning itself to the world. Maybe it feels like loving the beauty that surrounds us somehow disrespects the many horrors that also surround us. Or maybe I\u2019m just scared that if I show the world my belly, it will devour me. And so I wear the armor of cynicism, and hide behind the great walls of irony, and only glimpse beauty with my back turned to it, through the Claude Glass.<br>But I want to be earnest, even if it\u2019s embarrassing. The photographer Alec Soth has said, \u2018To me, the most beautiful thing is vulnerability,\u2019 and I would go a step further and argue that you cannot see the beauty which is enough unless you make yourself vulnerable to it.\u201d<\/em><br><br><strong><em>What\u2019s something you would secretly love to teach, even if it has nothing to do with your field?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br>I\u2019m getting to! So perhaps that makes it not a secret. I am SO excited to get to teach a course focused on Tabletop Roleplaying Games starting this Fall. I think we can learn so much from examining how we engage in play &#8211; and I also think that adults don\u2019t get to play enough! Our society sometimes thinks of imaginative play as childish, but the data suggest it is so valuable for so many things &#8211; building confidence and skills, developing identity and relationships, constructing friendships and social support, and even just reducing stress. I can\u2019t wait to see what our first group of students through this course come up with and how they choose to learn and play together.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55\"]{font-size:20px;font-weight:900;font-style:normal;font-family:stratum-1-web;text-transform:uppercase;color:#3698d4;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55\"]{text-align:left!important;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55\"]{text-align:center!important;}}<\/style>\n<h3 class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_fcf5b9-55\">Tell us a bit about your approach to teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a\"]{font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading34725_16beae-3a\"><strong><em>How would you describe what you feel to be meaningful changes to your course design or approaches to teaching that have emerged as you have grown as an instructor?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br>Don\u2019t get me wrong &#8211; content matters. But I am increasingly convinced that learning <em>how<\/em> to <em>learn<\/em> is the most important thing that we can do. When I was first starting out as a teacher, I wanted to make sure that students got exposed to all the amazing facts we\u2019ve learned in psychological science, or to every part of the great texts we were reviewing in the Honors College. But as I\u2019ve evolved I\u2019ve learned that it\u2019s so much more important to help students develop the curiosity and skills to approach <em>their own questions<\/em> with confidence and support. My courses are now much less focused on what students can come to know, and much more focused on what students can learn to <em>do<\/em>.<br><br><strong><em>How would you describe the impact of these changes on the students in your classes?<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Honestly, I find the beginning of classes a little more challenging in this way. Some students are hesitant about approaching their learning with more autonomy. Many of them have grown up, academically, in environments that encourage strict adherence to set curricula, memorization of facts, and demonstrating knowledge in exams that ask them to regurgitate those facts. And many of them have become very good at that! So shifting towards an academic world where they are invited to develop their own questions, build their own ways of both asking and addressing those questions, and where they are invited, indeed <em>encouraged <\/em>to make mistakes in the process can be challenging. But when students take on these challenges I have had the pleasure of seeing so much growth &#8211; both in their knowledge (data tells us we\u2019re much better at retaining things we care about and that we generate ourselves) but also in their abilities and confidence.<br><br><strong><em>As a result of this work, what has changed for you as an instructor and\/or colleague in terms of your own teaching.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br>The process of my teaching is always evolving, and it is <em>far<\/em> from perfect\u2026or even smooth! This kind of orientation towards teaching has encouraged me to practice what I preach. By that, I mean that each term I try something new and try to allow myself the opportunity and grace to mess it up a bit and not get things perfectly right. It means I am simultaneously planning more and less for classes &#8211; it takes me much more time and energy to design the overall outcomes, assessments, and framework to get to those outcomes now because the outcomes are more complex and based on skills. But my individual class sessions are often planned by a simple list of objectives, discussion prompts, and potential activities &#8211; then all of us together in the class build our learning together. I\u2019d also say it has moved me towards developing tools thanks to the experts at CITL &#8211; things like course working agreements help students feel comfortable taking academic risks, specific practices to increase inclusion in the classroom, and approaches to developing diverse writing skills have been so helpful.&nbsp;<br><br><strong><em>What would be a piece of advice you might give a new instructor at UMaine?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br>One of the great things about teaching at UMaine is that we have the opportunity to dream big when it comes to our courses. If there\u2019s something you\u2019ve always wanted to try, you can almost certainly do it in a classroom here <em>and<\/em> get support from colleagues and experts in pedagogy to do so. I\u2019d also encourage them to welcome undergraduates into every phase of their research process. I have been regularly stunned by the contributions those students have made in my own scholarship in social psychology &#8211; they have taken me in directions I never would have seen otherwise, and that I\u2019m extremely grateful for.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<style>.kb-row-layout-wrap.wp-block-kadence-rowlayout.kb-row-layout-id30196_9f7d51-65{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:60px;}.kb-row-layout-id30196_9f7d51-65 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id30196_9f7d51-65 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id30196_9f7d51-65 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:60px;row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:1268px;padding-top:30px;padding-bottom:30px;grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}.kb-row-layout-id30196_9f7d51-65{background-image:linear-gradient(60deg,rgb(8,46,88) 47%,rgb(65,118,161) 93%);}.kb-row-layout-id30196_9f7d51-65 > 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