STP News

Call for Applications to Serve as the Host Institution of the Graduate Student Teaching Association- Deadline October 1, 2013

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:22:55 -0500

The Society for the Teaching of Psychology announces a call for applications to serve as the host institution for the Graduate Student Teaching Association (GSTA) for the term 2014-2016.
The GSTA provides psychology graduate student teachers and teaching assistants with an array of services to hone their teaching skills as well as a way to enhance their career development as future contributing members of the professoriate. Among the GSTA's tasks are coordinating national and regional communication for graduate students interested in teaching through the listserv and Facebook groups. The GSTA is also responsible for increasing membership in the GSTA, developing and implementing services for those members, developing awareness of the organization through professional contacts (i.e., schools, universities, sympathetic organizations like APAGS, etc.), and generally acting as an advocate of graduate student teacher interests both within STP and without. They will also work with the Council and regional liaisons to encourage submissions of programming for the APA convention through the regular submission process and for regional conferences. Hosting the GSTA is a way for an institution to raise its profile nationally as well as for GSTA members to gain leadership skills and to network with national leaders in the teaching of psychology. More specific information about the requirements and application process can be obtained from Dr. Diane Finley at DFinley@faculty.umuc.edu

2013 Sage Travel Award

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:28:28 -0500

SAGE Publications and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology are pleased to announce a SAGE-sponsored travel award for STP members planning to travel to APA.
The Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award is designed to defray costs for an early career faculty member and a graduate student who wish to attend the STP (Division 2) programming at the American Psychological Association Convention.

Introductory Psychology teaching primer: A guide for new teachers of Psych 101

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:28:41 -0500

Introductory psychology is perhaps one of the most difficult courses to teach within the psychology curriculum. Not only does it involve covering the breath of the discipline, something that instructors trained in specific areas are not naturally prepared to do, it also involves teaching students who vary in interests and who lack proficiency in essential skills such as quantitative and informational literacy. Many students take the introductory psychology course primarily to satisfy general education requirements, and only a portion of students carry on to major in psychology. Unlike students in upper level psychology classes, intro students have had little, if any, prior exposure to psychology. Given the importance of the introductory psychology class in American education (approximately 1.7 million students take this class every year) it is perhaps prudent for the premier organization for the teaching of psychology, the Society of the Teaching of Psychology(STP), to provide guidelines for this course and prepare an explicit statement to aid teachers of this course. STP’s Executive Committee charged the Early Career Psychologists group to create a primer to aid those teaching introductory psychology. This document is the result of their labors.

STP Website Restructuring Task Force

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:55:01 -0500

We are seeking volunteers to participate in the restructuring of the STP website. No technical skills required. If you use the STP website and would like to be involved in reshaping it, contact the STP Vice President for Resources, Sue Frantz (sfrantz@highline.edu) by April 19th, 2013.

Call for Diversity Committee Chair

Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:36:44 -0500

New Syllabus

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:07:20 -0500

Health Psychology, (Fall, 2013)
Author(S): Francis Quinn
Affiliation: The Robert Gordon University

Measuring the Varied Skills of Psychology Majors: A Revision and Update of the Academic Skills Inventory (2013)

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:01:15 -0500

Measuring the Varied Skills of Psychology Majors: A Revision and Update of the Academic Skills Inventory (2013)
Author(S): Jennifer L. Perry and Michelle Singer Foust (Baldwin Wallace University) and Joelle D. Elicker (University of Akron)
Description: This resource is a revision of the Academic Skills Inventory of Kruger and Zechmeister (2001), updated to include new criteria (e.g., personal development), to expand treatment of ethical standards, diversity, research techniques, etc., to incorporate the skills proposed in the APA Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major (2007) and the APA Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major Version 2.0 (2012), and to incorporate experiences that are not currently captured in either of these sources.
Note: 2011 OTRP Instructional Resource Award

IRA Winners Announced

Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:02:11 -0600

Pamela Ansburg, Vice-President of Recognitions and Awards, and Andrew Johnson, Chair of the Instructional Resource Awards Committee, are pleased to announce this year’s IRA recipients.
Dr. Renee Boburka (East Stroudsburg University) - Increasing "Sense of Belonging" in Students in a Large Classroom setting
Dr. Jennifer McCabe - (Goucher College) - Learning Strategy Demonstrations for the Psychology Classroom
Dr. Jeffrey Stowell (Eastern Illinois University) - Video Clips of Master Teaching

STP Elections: 2013 Candidate Statements

Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:09:51 -0600

Candidate statements for President-Elect and VP for Awards

New E-book

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:29:47 -0600

So you landed a job-What’s next? Advice for early career psychologists from early career psychologists (2013)
Jared Keeley (Mississippi State University), Stephanie Afful (Fontbonne Univeristy), Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour (University of New England), Jessica Good (Davidson College), Sadie Leder (High Point University)

New Syllabus

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:28:09 -0600

The Social Psychology of Relationships, (Summer, 2012)
Author(S): Molly Metz
Affiliation: UC Santa Barbara

NITOP 2014

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:59:59 -0600

The 36th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, co-sponsored by the University of South Florida Department of Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology will be held January 3-6, 2014, at the TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel, in St. Pete Beach, Florida

Materials for Incorporating I/O into an Introductory Psychology Course (2013)

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:31:42 -0600

Author(S): Education and Training Committee of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Description: These materials were created by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in an effort to produce some “shovel-ready” modules for incorporating I-O Psychology topics directly into Introductory Psychology courses. Although interest in I-O psychology has grown among students, very few introductory psychology textbooks cover the topic. Therefore, we have designed modules that correspond directly with the topics typically discussed in introductory psychology courses (e.g., Biopsychology in the workplace, Memory and Job Performance) that can be “cut-and-pasted” into already prepared lectures.

Get Involved

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:42:09 -0600

STP programming is searching for a coordinator of the STP preconference teaching workshop held in conjunction with the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) annual conference in Austin, Texas, each February. The primary responsibility of the program coordinator is to coordinate all aspects of the preconference, including coordinating invited speakers and attendee submissions, keeping track of registrations, and coordinating with vendors to organize catering and audiovisual services. The incoming coordinator will train for nearly one year with the current coordinator beginning March 1, 2013 and then take over for the 2014 preconference.

Instructor’s Guide to Using Research Methods and Statistics Concept Maps (2013)

Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:43:34 -0600

Author(S): Alexis Grosofsky
Affiliation: Beloit College
Description: This resource contains nine new concept maps for topics typically covered in Research Methods and Statistics courses in Psychology plus it reprints two previously posted maps concerning computational material for statistics. These maps should help students organize the material in their courses and see the bigger picture of how the concepts interrelate. Pages in the resource are internally hyperlinked to facilitate students visualizing the interconnections.
Note: 2011 OTRP Instructional Resource Award