Turner Institute’s VCE Psychology Sleep Program brings experts in sleep science into the classroom, giving our Xavier VCE Psychology students a head start on the Unit 4 curriculum.
Run by Monash University’s Healthy Sleep Clinic, the Turner Institute VCE Psychology Sleep Program provides a unique opportunity for VCE Psychology students to learn the critical concepts about sleep science from experts in the field.
The incursion program involved a comprehensive 1.5- hour sleep education session which had been developed in alignment with the current VCE curriculum.
During the classroom session, our educators covered:
- The purpose of sleep
- Normal sleep patterns
- Identification of sleep stages and how these are interpreted using EEG, EOG and EMG
- The effects of sleep deprivation and recovery sleep
- Adolescent sleep patterns.
The highlight of the session was when volunteer students were wired up to the portable sleep diagnostic device, and the class had the opportunity to observe their brain waves (EEG), eye movements (EOG), heart (ECG) and muscle tone (EMG) in real time while they went for a sleep out the back.
Many thanks to Simon and Josh from the Turner Institute for facilitating the session, and a huge thanks to our sleeping students, who did so in the name of science!
The Psych Teaching Team - Ms. Ruth Dempsey and Mr. Leigh Williams
