Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Steve Taylor from onlineclassroom.tv has kindly provided psychnews.co.uk with an excellent DVD to give away as a prize.
Classic Studies in Psychology 1 is a best selling, smashing DVD, which consists of a five short video programmes designed to give teachers the flexibility to integrate illustrative video material into their lessons. ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
There is an exciting CPD event being held next month in Somerset, for psychology teachers interested to hear national police criminal behaviour analyst Paul Lobb speak on the past, present and future of forensic psychological profiling.
The event will be held at Millfield School, Street, Somerset on Tuesday, April 22nd, from ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
If you teach AQA (A) psychology you may be already aware of this site. Keiron Walsh has developed alevelpsychology.co.uk The site has a blog, lots of free resources and my favourite - Resource of the Week.
Do have a look around the website.
This post could also be an opprtunity for teachers to add ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The latest figures from UCAS show a continued rise in the number of university applicants.
As of 15 January (the date by which applicants should apply to be given equal consideration) there were 430,489 people applying for a full-time undergraduate course at UK universities and colleges - a rise of 8.9% ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
The Complete Companion (second edition) is now available and I am sure that many schools, and colleges will adopt it (and perhaps Coco the cat too) as their set textbook for AQA (A) AS psychology.
The first edition of this best selling textbook was published by Nelson Thornes in 2003 and ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
OCR has introduced a website devoted to the new changes to GCSEs. The site www.GCSEchanges.co.uk has information and updates relating to the new GCSEs for first teaching in September 2009.
The draft specifications for GCSE psychology will be available next month and you can register on the site for updates. The ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Folens have published an online companion to their new AQA (A) psychology textbook ‘The Complete Companion’. The very popular textbook, written by Cara Flanagan and Mike Cardwell, has been re-written for the 2008 specifications and is now on sale. I will write a review as soon as I receive my ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
If you have, or know of, a web site that will be useful for teachers or learners of psychology please go to www.clickpsych.com and submit a link.
Categories and links are easy to create and are swiftly moderated.
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Following the successful insight conferences held in January, OCR has provided a number of resources for those teachers unable to attend the events. I attended the Leeds event and it was excellent.
On this page you can listen to the full length speeches from Mark Griffiths and Rebecca Rhodes. There are ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
OCR ‘recognise achievement’ and are providing psychology teachers with the opportunity to buy the January 2008 question papers and mark schemes. How magnanimous.
Past papers are priced at just £1.60 each, with the corresponding qualification mark scheme priced at £5.10.
But hey “The past papers are available for immediate dispatch; due to ...
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