-: 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.