General Resources for the Teaching of Personality Psychology
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Active Learning Charles Bonwell maintains this site to support the scholarship of teaching by providing research-based resources designed to help faculty use active learning successfully in college and university classrooms.
APA Publication Manual, 6th Edition An overview of what's new in the 6th edition of the APA style manual. Includes free tutorials on What's new in the Sixth Edition" and The Basics of APA Style. Good resources for you and your students.
APA Writing Guide Online This online workshop developed by Karen S. Mooney with graphics by Erin Karper at Purdue University is a very thorough guide to APA sytle. In addition to its many online examples and explanations, it includes a list of books and websites for more information.
The Assessment CyberGuide for Learning Goals and Outcomes in the Undergraduate Psychology Major. The Assessment CyberGuide for Learning Goals and Outcomes in the Undergraduate Psychology Major by the Task Force on Undergraduate Psychology Major Competencies, Board of Educational Affairs American Psychological Association. This guide includes best practices, principles for assessing student learning, bibliography of assessment resources, overview of strategies, evaluation of strategies, Bloom's taxonomy and much more.
Association for Research in Personality This new scientific society, founded in 2001, brings together researchers who work on personality processes, structure, and development.
Careers in Psychology Web resources for psychology majors.
The Citation Machine walks users through the parts of a reference and then format the information in APA format for citations and references. A fun tool for beginners.
Claremont Graduate University Online Video Library. Claremont Graduate University, Clarmont, CA, maintains an online video library of selected talks and panel discussions at the University. Check out their how page with a listing of topics, talks, and speakers.
Classics in The History of Psychology Find excerpts and complete works in electronic format from the classic personality theorists in this site maintained by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto.
Clickers in the Classroom The Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology provides their newest guide: Student Response Systems (Clickers'') in the Psychology Classroom: A Beginner's Guide (2009)” by K. G. Kelly. This 19-page guide discusses topics instructors should consider before adopting a clicker system for their classes. Available in PDF or RTF form.
Diversity Content in Introductory Psychology Joseph E. Trimble, Center for Cross-Cultural Research at Western Washington University, studies ethnic identity, ethnic gloss, and measurement of ethnic self-identification. His site is filled with papers and ideas for how to infuse diversity into your class, including the 39-page booklet Toward an Inclusive Psychology: Infusing the Introductory Psychology Textbook With Diversity Content. Opens in PDF format.
The Educator's Reference Desk The Educator's Reference Desk, a site for elementary and high school teachers, provides links to Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups; lesson plans; and a question archive. They have a section on psychology for 11-12 graders.
First Day of Class Beginnings are important says Joyce T. Povlacs of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This list of 101 Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class which she put together is a catalog of suggestions for college teachers who are looking for a fresh way of creating the best possible environment for learning.
Flash Cards Remember those flash cards with terms or questions on one side and the answer on the other? Here is a website that allows a visitor to create unlimited flashcards, review others' flash cards, search for flash cards by topic, share flash cards with others, study on-line, and play a memory game. Flashcards are also available on Quizlet.
Great Ideas in Personality While focusing on scientific research programs in personality psychology, this site provides many resources for instructors and students including links to references, researchers, courses, grants, journals, societies and textbooks.
High School Teachers of Psychology The American Psychological Association sponsors these resources for high school teachers of psychology. Includes teaching resources, national standards for high school psychology curricula, workshops and conferences, resources for students, and information about how teachers can join Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS).
Improving Learning, Teaching and Leadership Performance The mission of the Individual Development & Educational Assessment (IDEA) Center at at Kansas State University is To serve colleges and universities committed to improving learning, teaching, and leadership performance This website contains an extensive collection of resources. Of particular value are a series of 4-6 page papers on topics ranging from improving lectures and motivating students to grading, speaking skills, adult learners, assessment, and student writing.
Introductory Psychology Resources Jon Mueller, he of the Resources for Teaching Social Psychology website has also made available his course website for PSY 100: Psychology: Science of Behavior.
Journals Devoted to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The University of West Florida, Kennesaw State University, and Developmental Psych.org maintain listings of journals (with links) which publish articles on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Both lists include journals on general topics and in specific academic disciplines.
Learn Psychology Mark Holah and Jamie Davies created this site to help Psychology A-level students prepare for their exam. The main feature of the site is an extensive glossary of psychological terms and concepts. Check out their Term of the Day or just browse featured randomly selected items. Be sure to suggest your favorite terms for inclusion!
LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Organized by decade, people, places, event, sports, and culture, you will certainly find an interesting image here -- of a particular figure in personality psychology, for example -- to spark discussion and enliven presentations.
Movies to illustrate principles of Personality Psychology Add your own examples here.
National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula In August 2005 the American Psychological Association designed these standards to enhance quality curricula, to express learning goals for students, and to promote change in the teaching of the high school introductory psychology course.
Online Textbook George Boeree of Shippensburg University has created an electronic textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in Personality Theories.
Online Textbook Personality Theory: An Introduction by Christopher L. Heffner is a 12 Chapter Online Synopsis of Personality Theory, Development, Psychopathology, Treatment and Change. According to AllPsych: Written with both the student and professor in mind, this text is meant to supplement the education provided at the college level. It is also aimed at facilitating learning for non-students interested in gaining knowledge about psychology and personality.
Online Video Guide From the website: OVGuide.com is the Internet's most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to online video, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games... the [site] delivers an innovative, user-friendly way to search and browse relevant, high-quality video sites on the Web.
OTRP on Line The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP) develops and distributes teaching and advising materials and provides services to teachers of psychology at all levels on behalf of The Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Look here for everything from copies of syllabi, how to write letters of recommendation, how to host an undergraduate research conference, to ethical issues and ice breakers with everything else in between.
Participate in Online Research The Social Psychology Network, maintained by Scott Plous, Wesleyan University, lists over 150 web-based experiments, surveys, and other social psychological studies. Click on the section labels Personality and Individual differences to find links to studies on various topics such as the Five Factor Model, birth season, motivation, anxiety and more.
Personality and Consciousness A compendium of brief overviews and short excerpts from major works of various personality theorists.
The Personality Project A cooperative website presenting the latest issues and findings of theory and research on individual differences.
The Personality System John D. Mayer at the University of New Hampshire constructed and maintains this website on the Systems Framework. In his own words: The Systems Framework for personality is a framework designed to present the personality system in a powerful new way that more clearly communicates the goals, pursuits, findings, and significance of the discipline of personality psychology. The Systems Framework divides the discipline into four areas of study: 1. Identifying the personality system, 2. Understanding the parts of personality, 3. How personality is organized, and 4. How personality develops. See also the companion Online Instructor's Manual which includes PowerPoint lectures, online student study guide, practice quizzes, and more.
Plagiarism The San Jose State University Library designed this on-line tutorial to help teach students about plagiarism, proper citation styles, and ways to avoid plagiarism. Features an on-line quiz at the end.
Psi Cafe A web site of links related to psychological issues.
Psico Mundo The world of psychoanalysis...in Spanish on Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Karl Abraham, Françoise Dolto, Sandor Ferenczi, Erich Fromm, Georg Groddeck, Jacques Hassoun, Melanie Klein, Jacques Lacan, and Donald Winnicott.
PsychExchange Mark and Jamie Slapes developed PsychExchange.co.uk so that psychology teachers can share resources with each other. There are many generous teachers who are willing to share their handouts, powerpoints and so on, and hopefully this web site will make this much easier for them.
Psychmovies.com Brooke J. Cannon, Marywood University, created and maintains this extensive site which lists movies illustrative psychological principles organized by topic, genre, and popularity ratings. Check out her suggestions for mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and more.
Quotations from your favorite personality theorists...and others!
Research Channel From the website: ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the valuable work of their researchers with the public. Viewers access programs online via a live webstream and an extensive video-on-demand library. The library houses more than 3,500 full-length programs that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Resources for Teaching Social Psychology Jonathan Mueller at North Central College, in Naperville, Illinois, put together the extensive website (and newsletter!) Resources for Teaching Social Psychology. Check out his resources for teaching the Self as well as other topics related to both personality psychology and social psychology.
Review Fun: Grab That Spoon! Educator and simulation game guru Sivasailam (Thiagi) Thiagarajan maintains a web site with tons of ideas to get participants involved and playing with ideas. Grab That Spoon! is a quick, five-minute game with a dash of friendly competition. It's a game in which everyone participates regardless of the size of the group (5 or 500, it still works!). It's a game that allows the learners to generate the review information, to participate in it, and to discuss their own understanding of the material learned. In other words, it's a game in which the participants learn a lot in a little time!
Review Session Power Point Templates. Kim Overstreet, former District Technology Resource Teacher of the Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky designed this site and many of the teaching resources on it. You can download templates she created to bring the popular game shows Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Hollywood Squares to life for a review session your classes.
Kim Overstreet, former District Technology Resource Teacher of the Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky designed this site and many of the teaching resources on it. You can download templates she created to bring the popular game shows Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Hollywood Squares to life for a review session your classes.
Student Success Strategies Skip Downing, author and expert on faculty development and student success strategies maintains this site where you'll find a gold mine of resources to support your efforts for improving student academic success and retention including web sites, books, online workshops, live workshops, newsletters, exercises, activities and more. Topics include self-responsibility, self-motivation, self-management, interdependence, self-awareness, life-long learning, emotional intelligence, and self-esteem.
Teaching Clinical Psychology This site is devoted to sharing ideas and resources for teaching clinical psychology, especially undergraduate courses on abnormal psychology, psychotherapy, group dynamics, psychological testing, and clinical components of introductory psychology. This extensive website includes exercises, examples, essays, handouts and more including contributions from users.
Teaching Tips Honolulu Community College maintains this extensive site for Faculty Development. Features Teaching Tips on practically everything from the First Day of Class, to Assessment, Motivation, Course Design, Dealing With Stress, Difficult Classroom Behaviors, Professional Ethics and much more.
Teaching Psychology Through Film Check out Raymond J. Green's Teaching Tips column on Teaching Psychology Through Film, Video which ran in Psychological Science and is available online here. He discusses the whys, hows, and pitfalls of using films to teach psychological concepts.
Teach it Quick and Make it Stick. Professional trainer and speaker Sharon Bowman has a ton of ideas to keep audiences involved and learning. Check it out when you need a quick activity to liven up a content-heavy lecture, an ice breaker, or a special closing activity. Especially useful for large lecture classes.
Textbooks for Personality Psychology The Social Psychology Network maintains a list of textbooks for personality psychology along with links to publishers and examination copy request forms.
The Thiagi Group: The Source for Training Games and Interactive Experiential Strategies Educator and simulation game guru Sivasailam (Thiagi) Thiagarajan of Barnga fame, maintains a web site with tons of ideas to get participants involved and playing with ideas. According to the website: We Do Training. And we do it differently. We use games and activities that engage participants. We keep them interacting with each other and with the content. We design training faster, cheaper, and better with an irreverent process that eliminates unnecessary steps that don't add value. Come play with us! We'll have you laughing and learning. Check out their many ideas and sign up for their monthly e-mail newsletter.
35 Tools For Teachers, Tutors and Students The social networking news blog Mashable summarizes 35 of the best computer and internet tools for education including applications for grading, social networking, teaching and tutoring jobs and more.
Tools for Teaching Davis, B. G. (1993). Tools for Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Chapters of this book by Barbara Gross Davis of the University of California, Berkeley is available online (the full text version is available from computers connected to the UC Berkeley network). According to the website:A compendium of classroom-tested strategies and suggestions designed to improve the teaching practices of all college instructors, including beginning, mid-career, and senior faculty members. The book describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical tasks--writing a course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture--as well as newer, broader concerns such as responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints.
Videos for Class: The Psychological Channel This website is dedicated to streaming videos from various sites (youtube, Google video, etc.) that were hand picked for their educational, therapeutic, or scientific value in the field of psychology. The site also offers videos, blogs and a message board.
The Wonderful World of Wikis Dr. Marianne Miserandino, Associate Professor of Psychology, presented on “WWW: The Wonderful World of Wikis” at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology on January 5,2008 in Florida. Her presentation summarized the pros and cons of wikis, presented examples of wikis in psychology, described how instructors can create a wiki of their own, demonstrated how instructors can contribute to existing wikis, and discussed the huge potential of this technology for the instructors of psychology. Miserandino is the creator and moderator of Personality Pedagogy, a wiki for the teaching of personality psychology.