If you’re an STP member interested in becoming more involved in STP activities then you’ve come to the right place. STP is committed to providing opportunities to as many of its members as possible to participate in STP initiatives. Whenever there’s a vacancy on a committee, task force, or working group, this will be one of the places where the vacancy is announced. Vacancies will also be announced in the current issue of our online newsletter. If you have a specific interest or question about any of our initiatives, please visit the STP Leadership page for email addresses of our executive committee members, committee chairs, editors, directors, and coordinators. Even if there is no current vacancy, you should feel free to contact one or more of these individuals to express your interest in getting involved.
If you are not a current member of STP, visit our Join page. We welcome anyone interested in the teaching of psychology.
For all positions, STP encourages applications and nominations from colleagues who are from underrepresented groups and have diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Current Service Opportunities in STP (Deadline):
Board Member, Fund for Excellence (March 1, 2021)
Call for Articles: Special Issue of ToP on Social Justice Pedagogy (March 1, 2021)
Associate Editors, Teaching of Psychology Idea eXchange (ToPIX) (March 31, 2021)
Join STP's Tagging Project (April 30, 2021)
Service Opportunities in APA (STP serves as APA Division 2)
Please note: The links below will redirect you to pages on APA's website
Board of Educational Affairs Task Force on Revising the APA Principles for Quality Undergraduate Education in Psychology (February 8, 2021)
Call for nominations: Distinguished Scientist Lecturers to speak at regional psychological association meetings in 2022 (February 16, 2021)
Call for nominations: Master Lecturers to speak at APA 2022 (February 16, 2021)
Learn how to nominate yourself or a colleague for a position in APA leadership.
Board Member, Fund for Excellence
STP seeks a member for the Board of the Fund for Excellence for a four-year term to begin in 2021 and end on December 31, 2024. The Fund for Excellence is an endowment fund that devotes its earnings to supporting the STP Excellence in Teaching Awards and other awards and grants programs. More information on the Board appears in Article X (page 6) of STP’s bylaws . Submit an application to the Chair of the Elections and Appointments Committee at elections@teachpsych.org by March 1, 2021.
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Call for Articles: Special Issue of ToP on Social Justice Pedagogy
Special Issue on Social Justice Pedagogy: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Teaching of Psychology
Guest Editors:
Note: For all of these topics, we are inviting papers that explicitly discuss these ideas relative to teaching.
Manuscripts submissions are due March 1, 2021. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the ToP submission portal (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/top). As part of the submission process, please indicate the corner to which you are submitting the manuscript (Proof of Concept, Replication, Science of Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Teacher). Additional details about manuscript corners are available at https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/TOP#1). Each manuscript will undergo the double-blind peer review process. Please email any of the guest editors if you have any questions or require additional information. You may also contact ToP editor, Aaron S. Richmond at top@teachpsych.org. Finally, please share this call-for-proposals widely.
About Teaching of Psychology
ToP is an indispensable journal for anyone interested in the teaching of psychology. ToP includes an array of manuscript types, from conceptual to empirical, that address the broad range of pedagogical issues in psychology. For more information see, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/top
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Associate Editors, Teaching of Psychology Idea eXchange
STP is seeking three volunteer Associate Editors for ToPIX. Associate Editors assist the Editor with maintaining the wiki, soliciting new material for posting, publicizing the wiki, answering user inquiries, and helping instructors post their materials.
If you’re interested, please submit a current CV and a cover letter explaining your interest in this position and your relevant qualifications to Danae Hudson, Director of Teaching Resources at teaching-resources@teachpsych.org by March 31, 2021.
STP encourages applications from colleagues who are from underrepresented groups and have diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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Do You Like Classifying Stuff? STP’s Tagging Project Needs You!