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The AP Psychology Reading: Life’s a Beach for Blair-Broeker
The AP Reading Process The exams are stored in folders that hold 25 each and in boxes that hold about 10 folders. This is only a portion of the total. Readers receive rubric training for
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Ramirez First Psychologist to Receive NSF Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching
Ramirez The National Science Foundation recently recognized eight outstanding educators with its 2004 Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. APS Member Julio J. Ramirez, Davidson College, was among the recipients, and the first psychologist to
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Those Who Can, Teach
The goal is not to get everyone to go to graduate school. It’s rewarding to actually change people’s lives – Patricia Greenfield When he left graduate school in 1981, William Buskist’s attitude toward teaching could
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Ways of the Master Teacher
I would be willing to wager my next year’s salary that most of us can think of at least one or two undergraduate teachers who influenced us to pursue a career in psychology. I would
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Giving Students a Hand: William James Lecturer Goldin-Meadow Shows the Importance of Gesture in Teaching
APS Fellow and Charter Member Susan Goldin-Meadow, The University of Chicago, is head of the Goldin-Meadow Laboratory, which focuses on the study of non-verbal communication, specifically gesture. In the face of an American school system
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High School Low: Once Thriving High School Psychology Programs Need More Support
The most frequent comment I get when I meet a new person and tell him that I used to teach high school psychology is, “Oh, I didn’t know they taught psychology in high school.” Perhaps