Key Readings
The Professors Guide
APA site for
Resources
To Teaching
Contents
• Preparing
• Lecturing
• Guiding
• Testing
• Grading
• Managing
• Evaluating
• Documenting
The Professors Guide
To Teaching
Idea Papers from KSU
Tools for Teaching
APS's Teaching Tips
TeachPsych.org
Syllabus
Converge
Chron. of Higher Ed.
Black Issues of Higher Ed.
Psychologists are not just researchers, statisticians, therapists, and consultants, but also teachers who promote the dissemination of the field's stock of knowledge, skills, and outlook to others. Like their colleagues in other departments and programs psychology professors must deal with issues related to learning and instruction, such as lecturing, testing, grading, and evaluating instruction, but unlike professors in other disciplines they approach these issues informed by their broad understanding of psychological theory and research.
Writing, Teaching, and Learning
When learners write their thoughts down on paper, they are learning, in a literal sense. They are organizing their ideas, testing ways to express them, and formulating new ideas and identifying implications. What is gained? As Donald Murray (1985, p. 7) explains "Why write? To be surprised." People write to find out what they know, and to refine their understanding of the topic they are examining. Writing is so valuable as a learning method that Pliny recommended Nulla dies sine linea: Never a day without a line.- Why give writing assignments?Some issues about writing and a number of suggestions for adding writing assignments to your courses.
- Writing Sites. A writing megasite posted by the the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center
Teaching with Technology
Technological advances in computing and information processing are changing the way students learn and professors teach. Ten years ago students learned by reading their textbooks, listening to lectures, taking part in discussions, and writing papers. Professors still use these fundamental tools in classes today, but they have added computer-based technologies--email, webpages, on-line discussion forums, multimedia programs, quiz-giving programs, and the like--to their teaching toolbox.- Becoming the High Tech Professor. What kinds of skills and techniques must the high tech professor learn?
- Issues and Insights. Links dealing with the use of technology in teaching.
- Activities and examples. Explore the uses of technology in teaching psychology.
Academic Integrity
Even though their top priority is promoting students' learning and achievement, professors must also enforce basic principles of academic integrity and civility. When students violate principles pertaining to cheating or plagiarizing and rules of etiquette that govern classroom conduct, the professor must intervene with sanctions for the violators and rewards for those who conform. Professors, too, should strive to comport themselves in an appropriate fashion. This page examines issues of academic integrity from both the student's side and the professor's side.Guiding
Service Learning is a widely adopted model used to integrate academic preparation with practical experience. Students in courses with a service learning component, like those in traditional internships, working for as many as 10 to 20 hours a week in a community setting. Service learning courses require that the service component provides a public good for the community, and that the community is fully involved in the students' educational experience. For more information visit The center for service learning at Colorado.Curriculum Models
- National Survey of Student Engagement. The NSSE is a nationally administered survey of "best practices" used in college and universities. The NSSE is unique in that it establishes benchmarks for defining the quality of instruction and campus environment in six domains.
- Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice
- The Teaching Goals Inventory was developed by Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross. The details of the development and background on the properties of the inventory are reported in their book Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, but the Teaching Goals Inventory can be completed on line at The Center for Teaching at The University of Iowa.
VCU Teaching Resources
- Resource Guide On-Line
- Faculty Guidelines for Student Conduct in the Classroom
- Academic Integrity Policy
- VCU Teaching Visit this internet-based journal on teaching to get some general ideas about teaching in higher education
Teaching Students with Disabilities
- The Instant Access Treasure Chest: Sonja Moore's metapage for disability information
- VCU Office of Services for Students with Disabilities