Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

” As I listened to this episode, I was thinking about the concept of psychological safety through my educator lens. This is where the concept of psychological safety–what it is, what it looks like, and how to create it–fascinates me. What is psychological safety? What characterizes a psychologically safe space?

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 29, 2024

Image by Bob McEvoy from Pixabay The IB does not recommend that the Psychology SL course is taught in one year only. Of course, if you DO teach SL Psychology in just one year, you won’t need to start till September 2026, as the new course is not examined until May 2027. Below, please find a plan for 4.5 that take time out.

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ShortCutsTV

JUNE 18, 2024

Designed to enhance the teaching of A-level and AP Psychology, the Film Club is a subscription-only site that gives you unlimited access to all of our Psychology films. Membership costs just £25+VAT per year and our free 30-day trial gives you complete access to all the films in the library. So you can judge the […]

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Psychology Sorted

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And here is another Psychology Sorted review sheet. This Abnormal Psychology review sheet on major depressive disorder will help you to match the studies and arguments to the questions, in time for your May 2024 revision. I’ve started completing it just to give… Continue reading →

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 17, 2023

In Psychology (for our specification at least) students typically study material for paper 1 in year 12 and then paper 2 content in year 13. Then I mapped out year 1 topics from the specification (Edexcel Psychology in this case) across the weeks, to have covered all the major areas in the time available.

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Psychology Sorted

JULY 27, 2024

My recorded presentation is today! Who doesn’t want full marks in Paper 3?! Laura Swash provides all you need to get your students toward this goal. Come here to discuss and share strategies. Paper3 Enjoyed the session? Support Laura’s fundraiser for Open Road, an organisation that works with families affected by addiction.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. I made someone feel psychologically unsafe? Their words, and the description of their experience in the meeting left me stunned, confused and disappointed in myself. I kept thinking, “Me? I wish I had.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that individuals who followed a structured daily routine experienced lower cortisol levels, a stress hormone (Schmitz et al., Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of psychological research. Review of General Psychology, 10(4), 312-333.

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Psychology Sorted

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I am offering short-term online cover teaching for DP psychology. My dream job could be your dream solution. Contact me through the blog or FB.… … Continue reading →

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Edthena

AUGUST 31, 2022

Positive psychology. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud. Behaviourism While Freudian psychoanalysis was hugely influential in the 20 th century another completely different strand of psychological investigation was developed almost concurrently, this is “behaviourism”.

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All Things Pedagogical

JUNE 22, 2024

And the difference between the folk who can or choose to only see positive, and those who see and experience those barriers to connecting, engaging, or even sharing in spaces like conferences or classrooms or meetings, is psychological safety. We like to use phrases like "this is a safe space" when we in fact can never guarantee this.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

AP Psychology is a popular course, and rigorous AP classes help prepare students for college and demonstrate their skills for college admissions. The study of psychology is particularly important in this regard because it is a field led by women. I majored in psychology before forging a political career.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Annual Review of Psychology, 60(1), 421-449. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4), 863-871. Your people—and your organization—will be better for it. Avolio, B. Walumbwa, F. & Weber, T. Leadership: Current theories, research, and future directions. Lazzara, E. & Salas, E. The Leadership Quarterly, 18(6), 606-632.

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Jonathan Firth

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

What should you read to prime yourself for further study in Psychology? I’m often asked by new or prospective Psychology students (or their parents) if I can recommend some interest-based reading to extend their understanding or prepare for a degree. Image via Pixabay. Apparently so. A great primer ahead of studying psychopathology.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

By constructing a psychologically safe environment through reframing metacognitive interpretation of subjective difficulty, children can express their full cognitive potential (Autin & Croizet, 2012). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 610. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 38(4), 281-288. Fiorella, L.

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Jonathan Firth

JUNE 2, 2022

Image source: Unsplash In most psychology and related courses, learners are expected to write short essays or extended exam-style answers about research studies or theories. I want to share some tips about how to structure this type of essay. It will be especially useful if you are a student in your final years of school (e.g.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Definition Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a person, after repeated failures or negative experiences, believes they have no control over situations’ outcomes and stops trying to improve or change them. by TeachThought Staff What is learned helplessness? So all future tasks become skewed by that.

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Education Week - Social Studies

AUGUST 22, 2023

See how the College Board, Cambridge International, and the International Baccalaureate approach psychology courses.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This week the annual Scottish Learning Festival took place in Glasgow, and together with five fellow educators I gave a presentation on the value of psychology to younger learners. 1) The study of Psychology is a basic part of understanding reality. 2) Psychology is interesting and motivating. We can do better for our learners.

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Jonathan Firth

MARCH 8, 2019

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to What Works came out around this time last year. Co-authored with Marc Smith and aimed at both new and experienced teachers, it’s a guide to how psychology research on areas such as memory, creativity and motivation can be applied to classroom practice.

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Psychology Sorted

JULY 2, 2024

As stated in the subject brief, the content for the new psychology course comprises the three approaches – biological, cognitive and sociocultural – and research methodology. Students will need to give an example, but it does not need to be a psychological study. It can be a theory or a relevant example from life.

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Education Week - Social Studies

AUGUST 4, 2023

The organization that oversees the Advanced Placement program said Florida has “effectively banned AP Psychology in the state.”

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Psychology, Neurology, and even Anthropology all have had a louder voice in ‘education,’ which may explain why critical thinking seems to be so often missing from most school and curriculum design. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This psychological safety fosters a culture of mutual respect and trust, allowing professionals to focus on their own development rather than worrying about judgment or criticism. Moreover, feedback provides specific and actionable information for educators to set goals and make targeted improvements.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2022

Annual Review of Psychology. Brock, S.E., McAliney, P.J., and Sen, A. 2017), "Toward more practical measurement of teamwork skills", Journal of Workplace Learning, 29 (2): 124-133. Leary, M.R. Motivational and emotional aspects of the self. 58(1):317–344.

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Education Week - Social Studies

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some districts opted for alternatives to the College Board's course to ensure compliance with state law.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Psychology and Forensic Chemistry), and Institutions. In the introductory course in biological anthropology and archaeology, “92% of students agreed that the Virtual Mystery web-tool helped them understand what a professional anthropologist does; 88.3% The VM project has expanded across disciplines (e.g.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

Educational psychology: developing learners (7th ed.). Students are more prone to own their learning as they are taking proactive steps to identify where they are, where they want to be, and what is needed to succeed. In life, this might be the most critical competency that educators can cultivate in the classroom. Ormrod, J. Pintrich, P.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

2013) The role of supervisor autonomy support, organizational support, and autonomous and controlled motivation in predicting employees' satisfaction and turnover intentions, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22:4, 450-460. & Fouquereau, E. Teaching Managers To Relate: Using Feedback To Bolster Commitment And Morale.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

Edith Ackerman, a “ Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design. It promotes the idea that learners construct knowledge most effectively when they are actively involved in making something that is personally meaningful.

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Geography Education

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve often wondered why my mom and I are so different in this regard; our psychology, our interests, the information we value, the skills we believe are useful and within our grasps are quite distinct.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

I’ve written for the American Psychological Association several, Education Week, Edutopia, National Education Association, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many more. It still feels surreal to see where reading research and writing about its implications in my classroom has taken me. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il. Not sure where to start?

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