Pre K – 12 Teachers

Pre K - 12 Teachers September 9, 2019

Teaching Advice from Exemplary High School Psychology Teachers

The literature on teaching excellence is abundant, and educational scholars have produced a robust body of research on best teaching practices at all educational levels.  While a healthy body of literature exists regarding teaching excellence in both psychology and teaching excellence at the secondary level, few sources are devoted to the combination of improving teaching excellence at the secondary level in psychology. To begin to fill this critical information void, the authors performed a qualitative analysis of each chapter written by a high school teacher who was included in the Society of the Teaching of Psychology’s (STP) series of five e-books titled The Teaching of Psychology in Autobiography: Perspectives from Exemplary Psychology Teachers.

Parents, Pre K - 12 Teachers August 26, 2019

36 of Our Best Back To School Psychology Resources

Psychology’s insights can help teachers manage behavior problems, motivate students, assist struggling learners handle stress and much more. It can also help parents tackle issues like back to school stress, motivation issues, and resilience. With a fresh new school year ahead, we thought this would be an excellent opportunity to present some of our best resources for teachers and parents.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, High School Students, Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Students August 5, 2019

Best of the APA Style Blog: 2018 Edition

Each fall we put together a “best of” post to highlight blog posts and apastyle.org pages that we think are helpful both for new students and to those who are familiar with APA Style. You can get the full story in our sixth edition Publication Manual (also available as an e-book) and our APA Style Guide to Electronic References, in addition to the pages linked below.

Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers July 8, 2019

Beyond the Textbook: Practical Applications for Teaching and Learning in Psychology

As psychology educators, we often have our favorite topics or specialties that we love to teach, but also have areas where we find it more challenging to build student engagement or interest.  If you are looking for some new ideas, the Books for Psychology Class blog can help you find new inspiration or a fresh approach for difficult to teach topics.

Pre K - 12 Teachers June 24, 2019

Building Better Students: The Early Learning Guidelines Toolkit

Educating a young child (never mind a classroom full of them!) is far more complex than, say, building a wooden chair. Wouldn’t it be helpful then, to have a toolkit filled with the scientifically supported resources needed to help educators most effectively assemble the building blocks of growth and development in their young students?

Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Teachers June 10, 2019

Practicing Mindfulness to Combat Stress in Academia

Academics spend hours sitting at a desk, thinking deep thoughts on specific topic areas. And we are also planners, thinking ahead of our next research paper or lecture. And when we think back to our previous papers and lectures, we ask the questions what went well? What did not go well? Often, we worry. Will we get tenure? Will we get that grant?

For as much thinking as we do, we are rarely self-reflexive in the present. We rarely live in the current moment, which, for many reasons, is problematic.

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High School Students, Pre K - 12 Teachers May 6, 2019

Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment: What’s a student to choose?

Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment: What’s a student to choose?

Properly preparing students for college is of the utmost importance for parents and high schools, especially when reports indicate that many students are not “college-ready”. Making students college-ready varies, but more often than not exposure to more rigorous coursework is the determining factor. Two well-known programs that prepare students for college-level work are Advanced Placement and dual enrollment. There are numerous reports highlighting the positive outcomes of each individual program, but which program best prepares students for college rigor?

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Parents, Pre K - 12 Teachers March 18, 2019

What Goes Into the Development of Greatness?

What makes someone with early potential develop that talent in a way that results in high performance or greatness?

A new volume, The Psychology of High Performance: Developing Human Potential into Domain-Specific Talent, edited by Rena F. Subotnik, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, and Frank C. Worrell, addresses that question by examining outstanding performance across five different domains: academic disciplines (mathematics and psychology), arts production (culinary arts and drawing/painting), arts performance (dance and acting), professions (medicine, software engineering, and professional teams), and sport (golf and team sports).

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Pre K - 12 Teachers, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Teachers February 25, 2019

The Seductive Nature of Psychological Myths: Is Metacognition the Great Equalizer?

The Academically Gag Inducing Problem

Recently, in my educational psychology class, I overheard two students talking about how they were right-brain thinkers (i.e., are holistic thinkers, problem solve using intuition, creative, etc.).

Two weeks later, I heard my one of my developmental research methods students say, “I think the best way to study is to use color-coded highlighters” followed by “It also helps me on tests when I listen to lectures because I am an auditory learner.”