Registration and Breakfast

Myths Breakers – Can We Really Read Your Mind?

This session will rely on hands-on activities and fun myths breaker to help students define psychology and possible careers in psychology and education. Another activity will focus on providing a quick personality quiz (based on the Big Five or MBTI) and then discussing how personalities influence behavior and relationships, how they help with life choices and relationships, and whether they are they truthful and accurate.

Break

Know Yourself – A Walk Down Memory Lane

This session will introduce students to developmental psychology through art. They will be asked to draw a self-portrait as they remember themselves 10 years in the past and imagine themselves 10 years into the future. This will allow for a discussion about the main stages of development. This activity could also focus on Erikson’s stages whereby small groups will choose a specific stage (e.g., identity vs. role confusion) to role-play a scenario representing that stage.

Lunch with the Admissions Office

My Learning Journey

This session will help you explore your relationship with learning, focusing on what motivates you and identifying types of motivation to adopt to better guide your learning journey. An emphasis will be put on the role of self-efficacy and how to promote that, thereby identifying aspects that you value in learning to reach your potential at school. 

Registration and Breakfast

Can You Trust Your Memory?

One activity could involve a memory game recall challenge where we show students a list of words/images for a minute, then ask them to recall as many as they can. We will explore the recency and primacy effect, comparing verbal and an auditory memory, with a focus on selective attention. Lastly, we will cover thinking styles or cognitive distortions, helping you identify their thinking styles. 

Break

The Stressed-out Brain

This session explores how stress impacts your brain and provides practical strategies to manage it. You will learn about the science behind stress, how to recognize triggers, and techniques like mindfulness, time management, and healthy habits to stay in control. Equip yourself with the skills to handle stress and boost overall well-being!

Lunch with Liberal Studies Faculty

Characteristics of an Effective Teacher

This workshop will guide students towards practicing the cognitive skill of putting themselves in others’ shoes, more specifically their teachers. They will explore, through fun games, the key characteristics of an effective teacher, focusing on traits like communication, empathy, organization, adaptability, and passion for teaching. Participants will gain insight into what makes a teacher impactful and inspiring.

Registration and Breakfast

I Feel You! Or Do You?

The first activity will focus on mirroring emotions by pairing up students; one makes a facial expression or gesture, and the other mirrors it. We will also have nonverbal communication charades, with students acting out emotions or concepts using only nonverbal cues while others guess.  

Break

How Others Affect Me

This session introduces social psychology experiments exploring social influence through various fun experiments (e.g., people turning in an elevator). We will also discuss peer pressure and how social norms influence behavior.

Lunch with Student Recruitment Office

Becoming a Leader

This session will start by an activity fostering teamwork and leadership skills by setting up an obstacle course, with one student leading a blindfolded partner through the course using only verbal instructions. Another activity will aim at practicing problem-solving and negotiation by presenting scenarios involving conflicts (e.g., between friends or classmates) and letting students role-play solutions using negotiation strategies.  

Registration and Breakfast

STEM PBL

In this session students will engage in a STEM PBL activity.

Break

Teach a Concept

Students will plan and teach a short activity.

Lunch with Psychology and Education Faculty

Classroom Management 

Students will be asked to draw their vision of an ideal classroom.

Registration and Breakfast

Challenges in Development

This session will focus on introducing the main psychological disorders through various case studies and discussions. The aim will be to help students differentiate between mental health difficulties, disorders, and break the stigma of seeking help. The activity would focus on how to talk about difficulties and disorders to others. 

Break

Being a Therapist for a Day

A fun and insightful way to understand the power of therapy in supporting mental and emotional well-being! During this session we will role play being a therapist, engaging students in a fun way to explore some of the misconceptions about therapy.

Lunch

My Future

This activity will involve creating a vision board for the future connecting personal goals with psychology and education. Through the vision board students will have the possibility to showcase their aspirations and how psychological principles can help achieve them.