How to manage fresh-course seminar in psychology : Reconsideration of elementary education in psychology.

本课题旨在探讨心理学新生研修班管理的教学技巧。在学习期间，我曾四次在东京大学文理学系主持心理学新生讲座。在每次研讨会中，我都尝试了几种教学方法，并测试了它们的效率，例如，对理科学生的基本学习技能的培训，自愿研究项目，与TA或高年级学生一起或不一起学习，实地考察，阅读介绍性文本等等。我发现，在必修课上，教师应该指导他们的讨论，另一方面，在选修课上，他们应该帮助培养学生的自主性。教师在第一次研讨会中的作用对于学生获得学习心理学的知识和动机尤为重要。

The aim of this project is to investigate educational skills of management of fresh-course seminar in psychology. During the study periods, I conducted fresh-course seminar in psychology four times at the Department of Arts and Sciences in the University of Tokyo. In each seminar, I tried several teaching methods and tested their efficiency such as, training of basic learning skills to science course students, voluntary research projects, learning with and/or without TA or senior students, field study, reading introductory text and so on. I found that teachers should be directive in thier seminar in the compulsory course, on the other hand, they should be assistive to develop students' voluntary in the optional course. Teachers' role in the first seminar is especially important for students to acquire both knowledge and motivation in studying psychology.