- When
- Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
- Event interval
- Single day event
- Campus location
- Kincaid Hall (KIN)
- Campus room
- 102/108
- Accessibility contact
- chairpsy@uw.edu
- Event types
- Lectures/Seminars
- Event sponsors
- Department of Psychology
- Description
- Teaching to the Core: How the Five Elements of Effective Teaching Show Up in Practice
Nicole K. McNichols, PhD., Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
This talk presents an instructor's account of effective teaching through the lens of the University of Washington's Core Elements of Effective Teaching. Drawing on thirteen years of classroom experience and two distinctly different courses — Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality), which enrolls approximately 1,200 students per quarter, and Psych 479 (Advanced Topics in Human Sexuality Research), a small upper-division seminar of 35 students — this talk examines how each of the five core elements shows up in practice. Rather than treating the framework as an abstract ideal, this talk uses concrete course design decisions, assignments, and pedagogical experiments to illustrate what aligned, inclusive, active, growth-oriented, and relevant teaching actually looks like across two very different learning environments. The talk concludes with a synthesis of how these elements interact and reinforce one another, and what thirteen years of iterative, evidence-informed teaching has taught about what students need most.
This free lecture is part of the promotion review for Dr. McNichols in the Department of Psychology. - Map
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