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Teaching Psychology

Teaching Tips

Teaching Tips provides the latest in practical advice on the teaching of psychology and is aimed at current and future faculty of two- and four-year colleges and universities.

Helping Students Improve Their Writing
When a student paper states that performance anxiety can lead to sexual impudence, we might laugh. When a dissertation uses the expression It is argued more times than we can count, we might cry. High-quality written communication is important at all levels of psychology education and in most fields of employment related to psychology. Accordingly, the APA’s Task Force on Undergraduate Major Competencies (2002) named effective writing skills one of the top goals for undergraduate psychology education. Despite the importance of written communication, the quality of student writing in psychology courses, even at the graduate level, is often so low as to make academics despair. Read More

Teaching Tips Archive

APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of
Psychological Science


After its first year of planning, APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding launches a grants program and other opportunities. Read more about the Fund.

Small Grants Program

The Teaching Fund supports a program of small (i.e. less than $5,000) grants that provide seed money for projects to enhance teaching in psychological science. Awards are made twice a year, in the spring and the fall.

Lessons Learned Vols. 1 & 2

Lessons Learned

Practical Advice for the
Teaching of Psychology

Edited by Baron Perlman,
Lee McCann and Susan McFadden

Cover of Voices of Experience

Voices of Experience

Memorable Talks from the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology

Edited by Baron Perlman,
Lee I. McCann and
William Buskist

View the Call for Applications and apply for a grant.

More Small Grants Information

APS Teaching Fund to Provide Grants

APS Teaching Fund Awards Inaugural Set of Grants

Grant Reports

We're Only Human... A Teaching Tool

Between the time you wake up in the morning until the time you turn out the lights, you do a thousand miraculous things: You decide what to eat for breakfast, you do the daily crossword puzzle, you help your cousin move some furniture, you drive your car to the ballpark, you cheer on the home team. Each of these seemingly mundane acts is actually a complex symphony of perceptions, motivations, judgments and emotions. Some of what we do is profound, but much more is simply being human. For psychologists' insights into our mysterious and often quirky human nature, introduce your students to "We're Only Human..."

Online Resources

Educational Resources
Teaching-Oriented Resources

Human Capital Initiative

The Human Capital Initiative is a framework for a sustained research effort targeting six problems facing the nation, communities, and families: aging, literacy, productivity, substance abuse, health, and violence.

Teaching of Psychology Journal Subscription

APS has a special agreement with the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). Current APS members are entitled to a special subscription rate of $25 for the journal Teaching of Psychology (Regular rate is $40). Teaching of Psychology is devoted to the improvement of the teaching/learning process at all educational levels, including secondary schools, colleges, graduate schools, and continuing education.

The journal includes empirical research on teaching and learning; Studies of teacher or student characteristics; subject matter or content reviews for class use; investigations of student, course, or teacher assessment; essays on teaching; professional problems of teachers; innovative course descriptions & evaluations; demonstrations and laboratory projects; and book and media reviews.