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\"Debra<\/div>\n

A conversation with Debra Park on teaching, learning, and well-being.<\/p>\n

We have to help our students learn how to develop healthy habits which will improve not only their academics but of course their mental health in general... If we're going to teach our students then I believe as teachers we need to develop our own personal well-being habits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After retiring from teaching high school psychology for 33 years, Debra Park, M.A., \u201cgraduated\u201d back to college and has been teaching undergraduate courses at Rutgers University, Camden NJ. As a Part-Time- Lecturer in both the Psychology department and the Institute for Effective Education\/Teacher Prep, she has taught Introduction to Psychology, Human Development, Psychology of Happiness and Well \u2013Being and Behavior Management to both traditional and non-traditional students. Debra is past-chair of the Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools, a committee of the American Psychological Association and has served on the Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education and APA\u2019s National Standards Working Group, revising the high school standards for psychology. She served on APA\u2019s Membership Board from 2009 \u2013 2012 and was Division 2, Society for Teaching Psychology Membership Board Chair 2012- 2015. <\/p>\n

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