High School Teachers
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.
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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
Practical Advice for the
Teaching of Psychology
Edited by Baron Perlman,
Lee McCann and
Susan McFadden
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
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
- Life Long Learning at Work and at Home
- An Instructor's Guide for Introducing Industrial-Organizational Psychology (Developed by SIOP)
- WUSM Neuroscience Tutorial
- PsychExperiments
- Web Experimental Psychology Lab
- Web Interface for Statistics Education
Teaching-Oriented Resources
- National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP)
- Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges
- Society for the Teaching of Psychology
- Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools
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.
Please click here to order Teaching of Psychology. You may also use this printable form.

