Professor David Buss in London

January 5, 2011

David Buss, from the University of Texas, is probably the best known evolutionary psychologist, having researched and written about a evolutionary explanations for a range of behaviour, including mating strategies, jealousy, homocide, rape and stalking. Teachers are invited to a one day INSET course on Monday 21 March. David Buss will talk on Why students [...]

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Boardworks

December 12, 2010

Boardworks.co.uk is giving away free (Christmas related) resources for stress and the social readjustment rating scale. The resources include an interactive table that students can use to work out their total Life Change Unit score across different scenarios, and an accompanying worksheet to use with the activity about the stress Christmas can bring. http://www.boardworks.co.uk/as-psychology_464/product-blog

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Teaching High School Psychology: Puzzles, games, memory and more puzzles!

December 8, 2010

Thanks to THSP for this (as below): In today’s NYT: an incredible array of articles, interviews, videos and interactive games that are just begging to be squeezed into a unit on cognition or memory, or at the very least as filler for 15 minutes. Among the highlights: Tracing the spark of creative problem-solving (features insight, [...]

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BPS – New Award for 2011

November 26, 2010

Members of the BPS are invited to make nominations for this inaugural annual award that recognises and celebrates unusually significant and sustained contributions to psychology education. The award will confer free life membership of the Society and a commemorative certificate will be presented at the Society’s Annual Conference. The award is formally for ‘distinguished lifetime [...]

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Psychology blogs

November 14, 2010

I try and encourage my students to read about psychology in the media as well as their additional textbook reading. Although there are often newspaper articles relating to psychology, there are also a lot of blogs about psychology out there, of varying qualities & interest to a-level psychology. I discussed using delicious.com to save bookmarks [...]

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Psychology Advocates for Schools and Colleges

November 9, 2010

The BPS has set up a database of University lecturers who are willing to give up their time (free of charge!) and come into schools and colleges and speak to students. This may be a general talk about Psychology at University or something more specific to their particular topic areas. To find out who is [...]

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Boardworks – free interactive resources

November 7, 2010

Boardworks are giving away free psychology resources aimed at research methods in psychology Boardworks offer complete curriculum coverage across 21 secondary subject areas and in psychology they have a comprehensive coverage of AS psychology. The AS psychology interactive resources include a wealth of exciting, stimulating and fully customisable ideas, including case studies, virtual experiments and [...]

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BPS Annual Conference 2011

October 25, 2010

The 2011 British Psychological Society Annual Conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel, Glasgow on 4-6 May 2011. The British Psychological Society Annual Conference celebrates the 110th Anniversary of the Society. Focusing on the past, present and future of the science, the BPS will showcase how psychology has influenced our lives; present the work [...]

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Hodder Education

October 19, 2010

Hodder are asking teachers to join their Teacher Team so that they can act on your ideas thoughts and opinions about their resources and support that you might need. If you join you (or your school or college) will get some discounts: •    10% off all Hodder Education resources, including Philip Allan, throughout the year [...]

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ICT tools for psychology

October 8, 2010

Looking for a way to spice up your lessons? Students fed up of powerpoint and poster activities? Here are some other options, I particularly like prezi because it allows a fantastic conceptual hierarchy.  For example, this (rough) one for Working Memory Model Working Memory Model WMM on Prezi Check out this prezi for a quiz [...]

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