Bethany Fleck Dillen

Topics:
Children/Youth Issues, Education, Teacher Education, Bullying, Psychology/Mental Health
Expertise:
Education, Memory, College teaching, Child development, Early childhood education, Developmental psychology, College teaching pedagogy
Degree: Ph. D.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Psychology
Email: bfleck2@msudenver.edu
Office Phone: 303-615-0415
Mobile Phone: 860-402-8817
Interviewed by: FOX31, CW2, Denver7
Biography:
Bethany Fleck Dillen is currently an associate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver teaching courses in the human development and psychology majors. Her teaching experience includes Introduction to Psychology, Developmental Educational Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods, Child Development, Developmental Research Methods, and Cognitive Growth and Development. In her courses, Fleck Dillen is committed to an active, learner-centered approach to teaching.
Her research centers on cognitive and social development in classroom contexts. Two distinct areas of work focus on issues in early childhood education and university classrooms. Both lines of research draw on developmental theory with the overall goal of enhancing the learning environment for students of all levels. Recently, she has been working on linking Documentation, an ECE teaching approach, with maternal reminiscing style. In the classroom, her research as of late focuses on the effects of service learning, flipped classrooms and integrating Social Media into teaching.
Fleck Dillen is also the director of regional conference programming for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
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