The Benefits of a High School Psychology Class
(Edutopia)
Students gain not just social and emotional learning skills but academic ones like how to conduct and analyze research.
A Brief Overview of Working Memory
(The Learning Scientists)
This relatively simple concept influences how we think about learning and memory, so I wanted to give a brief overview of what working memory is, how it works, and why it’s important.
W.H.O. Says Limited or No Screen Time for Children Under 5
(New York Times – Subscription required)
“Early childhood is a period of rapid development and a time when family lifestyle patterns can be adapted to boost health gains,” said an official with the World Health Organization in a statement regarding new “screen time” guidelines.
Should ‘Mental Health Days’ Be Excused Absences? These Students Think So.
(Education Week’s Rules for Engagement – Subscription required, Free Trial)
In previous years, a willing parent might have called their child’s school to report them as sick as an excuse to stay home to deal with emotional exhaustion, to see a therapist, or just to take a break. But a student-supported Oregon bill proposes explicitly adding “mental or behavioral health” to a list of reasons for excused absences, alongside physical sickness.
Why Teachers Should Celebrate Failure in the Classroom
(Medium)
How do we know when a student has successfully learned? Images of learning are everywhere in popular media: students raising their hands, an aha! expression on a child’s face, an A-plus on a test paper, kids giving each other a high five when they get an answer right. It’s so simple to think of learning as another way of saying correct. After all, isn’t learning all about correct answers, correct approaches, and correct applications of new skills?
Helping Students With ADHD Stay Organized
(Edutopia)
Digital portals like Google Classroom and Moodle can benefit students who struggle with organization and executive function.
Help for Navigating a Maze of Career Paths
(APA’ Monitor on Psychology)
An annual conference held just for North Carolina’s psychology undergraduates is inspiring the next generation of psychologists—and offering a model for other states
The Other Segregation
(The Atlantic)
But more troubling, and often less discussed, is the modern-day form of segregation that occurs within the same school through academic tracking, which selects certain students for gifted and talented education (GATE) programs.
Florida Union Chief: Violence Against Teachers a ‘Dirty Little Secret’
(Wicked Local)
Researchers found that 80 percent of teachers had been victims of harassment, property damage or violence from students. Another 44 percent reported physical attacks from students. The report called violence against teachers a “universally prevalent component of the 21st-century global education paradigm.
Online Teaching Q&A: Part 1 and Part 2
(The Novice Professor)
Interview of Community College psychology instructor Jason Eggerman to help explore is online teaching is for you.
Rein in the Four Horsemen of Irreproducibility
(Nature)
More than four decades into my scientific career, I find myself an outlier among academics of similar age and seniority: I strongly identify with the movement to make the practice of science more robust.
Classroom Crowdscience: Students Challenged to Detect Schizophrenia Genes
(Science Daily)
Teaching big data to future scientists means having them think creatively about ways to harness the terabytes of information available to them. To that end, a systems biologist used his graduate course to host a classroom competition tasking students with detecting genes associated with schizophrenia. The winning technique was quick, flexible, and outperformed previously published methods.
High Replicability in Personality Psychology
(AAAS’ Science)
Replicability was predicted by features of the original studies and the replication studies. These results suggest that findings in personality psychology are more robust than in other subareas of psychology.
The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Paul Mccartney
(The Emotional Learner)
Far from being gullible, young children are capable of rejecting claims when they don’t match their experiences, but this doesn’t mean they’re always right.
Autism: Embrace Differences
(APA’s In the Public Interest)
Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation. We’re sharing a powerful, brief, real-life story. Before he was diagnosed with autism, Jeremy Christopher struggled with school, saying he was incredibly unhappy and thinking that it was “…unfair that some kids got on the honor roll and [he] didn’t.”
It’s Not Your Imagination: That Toddler is Judging You
(Time)
It may be no surprise that young humans—like all humans—look to the face first for clues about the kindness, approachability and even competence of new people.
Don’t Worry About Your Child’s Everyday Stress. It May Be Helping
(Washington Post – Subscription Required, Free Trial)
“Anything that asks us to work at the edge of our current capacity is stressful, but that’s how we learn and grow,” says child psychologist Lisa Damour, author of “Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls.”
Breathe
(Medium)
According to a 2014 report by the American Psychological Association (APA), 83% of students report that school is a somewhat or significant stressor.
What’s Driving the Rise in Teen Depression?
(US News and World Report)
Examining the contributing factors that have led to the increase.
How to Teach Achievement in a Digital World
(ParentMap)
Can our kids’ screen obsessions prepare them for the future?
School Bullying’s Impact Can Last a Lifetime: Study
(US News and World Report)
Young adults with a history of adolescent bullying may also see their odds for unemployment spike by 35%, investigators found.
