Teaching

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►There are many excellent websites providing teaching resources (see below) so why do we need another one? PsychWiki is unique in that...

  1. we can compile a centralized database of useful links because you/anyone/everyone can easily add links to all the different webpages about teaching resources
  2. we can pool advice and tips from many different experts (that you could not obtain from books or static websites), including expert opinions about which of the many teaching websites are the most useful and why -- so that the user has an easy-to-use starting place for learning about teaching in psychology


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How to select textbooks

  1. My advice is to find two textbooks for the class: use the second-best textbook as the class textbook, and teach using the best one, that way you will be able to add to each lecture information beyond what the students read from their textbook
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How to create a syllabus

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How to prepare lectures

  1. Don't over-prepare: its best to let it flow and talk semi-extemporaneously during the actual presentation
  2. You can find hundreds of lectures notes and slides for almost any class at the websites posted at the bottom of this webpage.
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How to give presentations

  1. use "Advanced Organizers" where you write on the board 4 or 5 things you are going to cover in class that day so the students have an outline they can follow
  2. One good tip is to briefly summarize what happened during the last lecture so that you orient the audience to the context of the day's presentation.
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How to do Classroom Experiments

  1. The OSU Psychology Museum and Resource Center has articles on classroom experiments.
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How to evaluate student performance

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How to deal with problem students

  1. Students talking too loudly:
  2. How to deal with cheating:
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Other Teaching Resources

  • within PsychWiki...
  1. Internet Resources for Teaching Statistics
  2. Classroom Demonstrations in Social Psychology
  • outside PsychWiki...
  1. CROW: Course Resources On the Web
  2. SPN: Social Psychology Network
  3. teachpsych.org
  4. Personality Pedagogy is a wiki for resources for the teaching of personality psychology.
  5. APA Online Psychology Laboratory provides highly interactive resources for the teaching of psychological science. This is the APA's website which requires the Macromedia Authorware plugin. OPL offers new and classic studies in psychology that students can participate in, and then analyze data from the experiences. The peer-reviewed materials include online studies and correlational studies, large data sets, demonstrations, and teaching aids. If you are a teacher, links to related pedagogical tools are located in the resources section of this site, and you can search for materials using Keywords, Topic, and Method of Analysis. All resources contained in OPL have been reviewed by an Advisory Board comprised of faculty from high schools, community colleges, and university campuses. Therefore, you should find interactive studies and demonstrations that can be integrated seamlessly into your classroom. Additional materials are available and links are provided to companion sites where appropriate. There is also a Teacher Tour section to help teachers learn how to use OPL to teach psychology.
  6. Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC provides teaching and learning online resources and videos.
  7. AllPsych Online - The Virtual Psychology Classroom provides psychology related material to help improve factual knowledge, inspire thoughtful discussion, and facilitate a unique understanding of the psychological theories, applications, and needs for research. The site contains free e-textbooks representing some major courses in the field of psychology, online tests, a psychology dictionary, and many more teaching tools.



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