What is your favorite aspect of teaching?
“It is difficult for me to pick a favorite thing about teaching because there are so many elements I love about what I get to do each day, and if you know me, you know I call being in the classroom with my students one of my sacred ‘happy places.’ I love creating a learning environment where I hope students feel engaged and confident to inquire and look forward to when they see history or psychology on their schedules. I love being challenged by students daily; how each year, students offer different interpretations or insights on whatever is being learned. This pushes me to look at things differently. I also love how no day, month, or academic year is the same. Even though I may teach the same courses each year, I know it will be different regardless because of the different students that will enter my classroom.”
What sparked your interest in psychology?
“When I was in college, I majored in Social Sciences due to my interest in history and politics. I did not realize how many psychology courses I would take to fulfill my requirements. I quickly discovered how much I enjoyed learning about how and why the mind and body interact with one another. There are so many subcategories of psychology, and it is a consistently expanding field, one that you can study and research the psychological qualities of people throughout history to current research on technology affecting teens. The field truly continues to fascinate and motivate me to continue my learning as a perpetual student of the field.”
Why did you decide to take Sacred Heart Greenwich psychology students to the Museum of Illusions?
“Last year, I decided to begin to implement a trip to the Museum of Illusions for both my Advanced Placement (AP) and Honors/College Prep sections of Psychology. I love it when students are not only able to apply what they have learned, but also have fun while doing it and seeing it in action. The Museum of Illusions coincides wonderfully with our Sensation and Perception unit. The museum has many of the perceptual rules, experiments, and illusions we studied, so students could now participate in doing them outside a classroom.”
The King Street Chronicle thanks Mrs. Jillian Bozzi, Upper School Psychology Teacher, for her contributions to “Humans of Sacred Heart.”
