Teaching Websites

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/tips/ Association for Psychological Science features incredible resources and articles on Teaching.

http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/projectsyllabus.html Online Teaching Resources in Psychology houses a large variety of syllabi on the full-spectrum of psychology courses.

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html National Center for Case Study teaching in Science This site has more information that is geared toward biological science, but it is a good resource for inspiration

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm Great resource with lots of information such as activities, motivating students etc.

http://www.developfaculty.com/online/index.html Online resources for faculty development offers advice on starting a blog, classroom assessment, creativity in teaching etc.

http://www.teachpsych.orgSociety for the Teaching of Psychology 'incredible website' It is all there!

Grading Rubric

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html#rubrics ______________________________________________________________________________________

Plagiarism

http://www.kevinschoepp.ca/APAtutorial/ It is all here, if students need a resource on APA format, this is well done and very thorough.

[[http://www.umuc.edu/prog/ugp/ewp_writingcenter/modules/plagiarism/ start.html]] This site is set up in a slide presentation format and includes a quiz on plagiarism. Very helpful and well organized.

Teaching Inventories

www.teachingperspectives.com

College Success

http://www.oncourseworkshop.com/ http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/

Teaching Articles

What Makes Teachers Great by Ken Bain-- Article reference submitted by Bob Johnson

Ways of the Master Teacher by William Buskist-- Article reference submitted by Bob Johnson

Teaching Ideas

Student led-classroom discussions-- submitted by C. Eugene Walker, Ph.D.University of Oklahoma

I frequently have students read original articles to supplement the textbook (or instead of a text). A technique that I use is to require students to read the articles and write a question they could use to lead a class discussion. I call on students randomly to lead the discussion. This accomplishes several goals. First, students do read the articles and think about them before class because they might be asked to lead the discussion. Second, they learn to lead a group discussion. Third, the class does not have to listen to me all the time. They turn in all of their questions for credit at the end of the class.

Teaching Journals'''

Submitted by Louis Schmier Valdosta State University

JOURNAL ON EXCELLENCE IN COLLEGE TEACHING
JOURNAL OF STUDENT CENTERED LEARNING
TEACHING EXCELLENCE
CHANGE
TO IMPROVE THE ACADEMY
JOURNAL OF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCAITON
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
ACADEMIC EXCHANGE QUARTERLY
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING.
JOURNAL FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
JOURNAL OF ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Teaching Newsletters'''

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION NEWSLETTER
THE TEACHING PROFESSOR
NATIONAL TEACHING AND LEARNING FORUM

Photos for Presentations'''

http://creativecommons.org/ A good site for finding stock photos that are under the creative commons licensce. submitted by Scott C. Bates, Ph.D. Utah State University

Ideas Generated from a PT@CC Conference held at Los Angeles City College February 2007

Good Teaching Ideas

1. Lecture 1st, process 2nd
2. Play devil's advocate for unpopular topics
3. Bring current event to analyze and apply
4. Call on students and learn their names-- use an activity in which you have students tell the class one thing that we may not know about you.
5. Panels of people discussing topics- Bring in speakers for panels.
6. Practical application exercises- Example- persuasion have students come up and campaing using psychological persuasion techniques
7. Extra credit enrichment activities- museums, guest lectures etc.
8. Broken stereotypes
9. Present materials in different modalities- visual, auditory, kinesthetic
10. Use ancillary topics
11. Convey enthusiasm!
12. Present a social problem, and have students be judge and jury to discuss what the outcome should be-- in small groups
13. Set up research study on speed dating to teach research methods and have students participate
14. Involve students by conducting experiments with them for example levels of processing activity- (consult your instructor's resource manuals for activities)
1. Good Interest Sparkers

Costumes, reproduction and sexuality topics, Relevant media, Humor

2 Motivational Strategies

Psychology Club Activities, Allow students to be in charge and participate with them.

3 Applicability

Prove what you are talking about and relate things to current events

4.Teaching techniques

Small group discussions, review as a preview- like trailers at a movie, vary the learning modality, self-surveys, in-class demos, student presentations, artistic representations of concepts, games- crossword puzzles and pictionary

1. Have you ever wondered questions
2. True and False opening quiz
3. Small group exercises
4. What is psychology essay?
5. Lightweight play
6. Mid-class- 1 minute essay activity about what they have learned
7. Popular saying activity
8. Fine arts in psychology
9. Service Learning Projects
10. Movie analysis of a character and psychological concepts that are displayed by the character
11. International Collaboration
12. Naturalistic observation exercises
13. Popular Media Transcript analysis
1. Humor- stories and group discuss it
2. Research Methods- analyze magazine research and its conclusion
3. Physiological Psychology- Get students interested by discussing brain injury and diagnosis before the neuron unit
4. Incorporate personal experiences into class
5. For abnormal- choose a disorder then demonstrate your pereception of it -- then read book provided background and re-demonstrate it using your newly acquired knowledge
6. Explain concepts using vivid- examples
7. Use passion in spreading knowledge
1. Direct analysis of peer reviewed journal article- section by section-writing assignment
2. Utilize Monday health section of Los Angeles Times - students could research articles and write papers
3. Send students to participate in various Community service organizations
4. Create a program to serve at-risk youth
5. Near the end of a lecture stop and ask "What if I am lying?" Critical thinking exercise
6. Apply real-life experiences to concepts
7. Have students identify core values (so they can understand why they react the way they do to info/ ideas)
8. Use 3-minute speed dating to acquaint students or to have them explain the way that they learned the material of the day
9. Have students design a behavior modification exercise
10. Have students design a psychology concepts scrapbook
11. If cell phone rings then it is a pop-quiz for the whole class
12. Draw pictures for effect.
1. Have students create You tube videos
2. Write a song or poem illustrating a psychological construct
3. Develop a recipe for

(i.e. a criminal, psychopath, procrastination, stereotype, shyness

4. Using Drawing from the right side of the brain exercise to discuss lateralization
5. Have students create case studies in groups and then have other groups analyze the case study. Allow for intergroup teaching.
6. Inquiring minds want to know 1st day activity
7. Find the psychology within- analyze aspects of your culture
8. Play the game Taboo with psychological concepts
9. Brain vignette diagrams
10. Comparing and contrasting motivation- why do we eat, sleep, have sex, get angry- relate to the brain
11. Expose students to a variety of different personality tests
12. Present a vignette and have students argue the different perspectives on the vignette (utilizing the different schools of psychology)
13. Create a psychology mystery

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