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. Many schools have between 34 and 36 teaching weeks in their first year. However, I am aware that some teachers are in the position of having to do that. Below, please find a plan for 4.5 that take time out.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Heres hoping as many as possible read the book and action the ideas getting these learning ideas on the front foot is a tough ask (weirdly) and moving teachers from their obsession about teaching to add an obsession about learning is the aim of the game. Teachers love to teach. The act of teaching is so enjoyable.

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TeachThought

MARCH 26, 2025

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that arises when an individual encounters a conflict between what they believe and how they behave, or between two competing beliefs.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 25, 2024

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new IB Diploma psychology curriculum coming soon. All Year 1 Diploma psychology students will be studying it from September 2025. The new psychology guide won’t be published until Feb/March 2025, but teachers don’t need to wait till then to start preparing.

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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. Teaching Managers To Relate: Using Feedback To Bolster Commitment And Morale.

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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. First I got the school calendar and plotted all the teaching weeks from September to February.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

It serves as a valuable tool for educators, schools, and districts to refine their skills and improve teaching, learning, and leadership. 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.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

As I was reading “From Transactional to Transformational Leadership” by Bernard Bass, I was struck by the parallels between leadership and teaching. In classrooms, teachers can embrace problem or project-based learning and teach students to work though the design thinking process, so they are confident approaching real-world problems.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Fuchs also notes that there is a growing body of high quality research on how to teach children with disabilities or who are at risk of being diagnosed with a disability. He admits there may be other psychological or social benefits to learning alongside peers in general education classes. Only 15 studies survived.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

In studying various pieces of literature on the effect of design, Barrett and Zhang began with the understanding that a “bright, warm, quiet, safe, clean, comfortable, and healthy environment is an important component of successful teaching and learning” (p. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1362–1370. Godwin, K., & & Seltman, H.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Listen to the interview with Blake Harvard: Sponsored by Listenwise and Khan Academy Kids Please allow me to describe an all-too-common situation that has occurred in probably every teacher’s classroom: You teach your heart out. This is absolutely not a nod to teaching to preferred learning styles … don’t do that.) Come back for more.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

My goal here is to inspire all teachers regardless of your setting to think about how this kind of teaching might be possible in your classroom. Example 1: A Classroom in a Competency-Based School One unit Messer teaches is a 9-week seminar called Global Zoo. What Is Competency-Based Learning? Click to Register Come back for more.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 30, 2015

Speer, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Manchester in England, has found that “self-praise” is still considered largely unacceptable. In her study, published in Social Psychology Quarterly, Speer discovered that in almost every case, indirectly or directly praising oneself seemed to violate social norms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Efforts like these are part of an instructional approach known as the “campus as a living lab,” in which classroom teaching mixes with on-the-ground efforts to decarbonize campuses. The post Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. A large study on teaching science to middle school students was published afterwards and it adds more nuance to this debate between critical thinking skills and content knowledge.

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Critical Thinking Teaching Psychology Middle School 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success. Effective teaching isnt about fidelity to a rigid curriculum its about fostering connection and allowing curiosity.

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Economics Psychology Education Policy Humanities 121

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Importance of Teaching about the Vietnam War There are many reasons why students must develop a strong understanding of the Vietnam War. This includes everything from the impact on literature and film to the psychological scars left on soldiers. For instance, they will explore essential topics like the draft and anti-war protests.

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Lesson Plan History Psychology World History 130

Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Psychology and Forensic Chemistry), and Institutions. The virtual mystery web-tool: An online hybridized problem-based learning teaching tool created by students for students. The virtual mystery web-tool: An online hybridized problem-based learning teaching tool created by students for students. Fukuzawa, S., Fukuzawa, S.

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The Effortful Educator

APRIL 8, 2025

So, I want to provide a simple way I am planning on using both of these strategies in my classroom daily for the next unit of study I teach. It gradually becomes an instrument of study for students that can be used when preparing for a summative assessment on the unit topic (psychological disorders and treatment). Its simple.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. The ability to use complex language would have given early Homo sapiens a crucial advantage, enabling cooperation, teaching, and planning in ways that no other species could match," Miyagawa explains. Nitschke, R.,

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Humanities Archaeology Artifacts Psychology 93

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? 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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We should innovate to leverage emerging technology, getting data back at nearly the speed of teaching and learning. It’s great to have technologies providing more data, but if we can’t understand it at the point of teaching and learning, we have more work to do to embed it into daily educational practice.

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Education Professional Development Humanities Psychology 125

ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I’m thinking here primarily about my own subject, Psychology, or any other where there aren’t simply right or wrong answers most of the time, and therefore examining requires interpretation and application of a mark scheme. Does it actually tell me how to teach this to my students beyond just saying “this is important”?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

The article notes that Dr. Fuchs is concentrating on academic outcomes and acknowledges that inclusion may have psychological or social benefits that were [not] studied. Social or psychological benefitslike peer interaction, belonging, and reduced isolationarent incidental to learning/academic achievement. She posted this on X.

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Research Education Psychology Human Rights 123

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

She is now an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. That’s something that often isn’t captured in a lab and why the ability to record real life at home is improving psychological research. The post PROOF POINTS: What tooth brushing could teach us about being a good student appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

It turns out that doing so will require a major reeducation effort for parents, students and teachers, argues Joshua Eyler, who has led teaching centers at several colleges, in a new book. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

I recently returned from an absolutely lovely trip to London and Windsor, where I presented at The Teaching and Learning Summit at Eton College, hosted by InnerDrive. So, just like I asked the attendees at The Teaching and Learning Summit to be a little more like Sherlock Holmes, Im going to challenge you to do the same. McLean, D.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

Firstly, that we may be confined to rehearsing only the behavioural aspects of teaching, the visible ‘moves’ that a teacher makes such as how they script their instructions or ask questions to the class. The more we zoom in, the more precise we can be, but the further removed from the context of an actual teaching episode it becomes.

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Professional Development Teaching Psychology Education 195

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The goal of any physical educator should be to teach students that exercise is a positive and productive way to spend time, rather than something to rebel against.

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Education Elementary School Psychology Classroom Management 307

TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

SES has an impact on learning and teachers need to be aware of these impacts if they are going to teach all students. Conclusion Part of teaching high school is preparing students for college. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 37(3), 193–199. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 204–218. Clever, M., & Miller, K.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Its physically, emotionally and psychologically demanding work, and we provide no respite, from a system or policy level, for this, she adds. We dont afford that kind of support to educators who, frankly, spend all of their time with tiny germ factories who are constantly getting themselves and everybody else sick, Hogan says.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

If we can get a better understanding of how metacognition works, we can tap into it to improve our learning and teach our students to do the same. Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. ” You can find more of Megan Sumeracki’s work at learningscientists.org.

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Pedagogy Psychology Library Humanities 268

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time.

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