Maud is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University. When not teaching intro psychology students at the university, she is spending around 30 hours every week working with a young adult with special needs on different forms of community socialization. Find out more about becoming a college professor as well as how to leverage your education and experience for the greater good.
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My name is Maude MacArthur. I am currently an adjunct professor of psychology here at Western Connecticut State University. In addition to that I am an education mentor for a non-profit organization, working in collaboration with the public school district, providing supportive services for students with intellectual disabilities. As an adjunct professor of psychology here at Western, I teach various section, probably two section of introductory to psychology. And, I, do that two days a week. And then, five days a week for 30 hours, I work with the student with the intellectual disability in the community settings. I use socialization, being a job coach, in a vocational setting where he is doing an internship, to prepare him for Work, you know, a real job. And also, do some counseling at times. A lot of redirection, just so that they can be a productive individual. And I also teach them not to let their disability define them. I teach Introductory to Psychology, where I introduce students from various background to a historical perspective of the early theories of psychology as a science. And in my classroom, I try to empower all my students to applied what they have learn to their everyday life, and I do that using multiple teaching modalities in order to achieve that.
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