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By: Cassie Hendry<\/em><\/p>\n

For a professor who says he doesn\u2019t know much about teaching and likes to stick to the \u201cold school\u201d style, Craig Bennell sure has a lot of grateful students.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, before he walked onstage to receive a teaching award in May, he was treated to snippets of the numerous nomination letters his students had submitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a very touchy-feely guy, but it certainly is a sentimental time when you hear the letters being read out, those ones initiated by your students,\u201d says Bennell.<\/p>\n

Bennell, an associate professor of psychology at Carleton, was one of the 2013 Capital Educators\u2019 Award<\/a> winners. The awards are given to outstanding educators in Ottawa who are nominated by students or fellow faculty.<\/p>\n

He says that his situation was unique. Instead of only undergraduate students submitting nominations, most of the letters came from his work supervising psychology graduate students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith grad students, you\u2019re with them for so long. I have PhD students I\u2019ve been with for six or seven years, so you do develop a personal relationship with them. It\u2019s beyond a supervisor-student relationship, you really do want the best for them,\u201d says Bennell.<\/p>\n

When he\u2019s not supervising his grad students, Bennell can be found working at Carleton\u2019s Police Research Lab<\/a>, where he\u2019s the director, and as a professor teaching forensic psychology to undergrads.<\/p>\n

The trick to getting\u2014and keeping\u2014students engaged is simple, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledge and understanding of the area is key, but you need to deliver it in a fun, exciting, interesting way. That\u2019s pretty much it, it doesn\u2019t get much more technical than that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Bennell says that the difficulty he faces is helping students relate to the course material. While he says forensic psychology attracts students more than other classes, most of his students haven\u2019t experienced police interrogations or spent time in a federal penitentiary.<\/p>\n

The solution? Bennell uses a mixture of personal stories and videos to get the point across. It seems to be working\u2014he says he\u2019s lucky to have students that are so enthusiastic about the subject, making it \u201cnot a lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students I interact with are engaged, excited, knowledgeable, they want to learn. They\u2019re smart and they\u2019re hard workers, they take on a lot. I have a hard time keeping up with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nomination period for the 2014 Capital Educators’ Awards will open this month. Find out more<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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