Psychology Teacher Resources by THSP

In an attempt to share resources among teachers in the modern world, we tried the 4-shared database for a number of years. Over time, it became clunky and unwieldy. Then I created a google site as a prototype, but the data allowed on any one site was minimal and links needed to be added rather than files being uploaded.

Then Google Drive came to us through a variety of suggestions. The current organization is much like the blog, with the units being numbered consistent with the AP Psych course outline--14 units.

The link for the drive can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B28t_LsPkwHefnRSTU5aWVFQVHo3MVBSZEEzTHczTXpPT09EMzVOLXhsdVBVRmdNTmRNUms&usp=sharing

If you have an outstanding assignment that you would like to add to the mix, please send the file to this email or send us a link for us to download, review, and add the file to the drive.

The email for this new GDrive account is:
thspblog@gmail.com

We are uploading only items that are commonly shared/personally created and that are not copyright violations, so no videos or other works that are owned by someone else. We can access those via other methods.


posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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#Psychat Sessions Upcoming

If you are not already on Twitter, please stop what you are doing, turn on your phone, tablet, or computer and make your way to twitter.com.  Sign up and follow the people below to keep up on some of the best online training available from those of us who are still in the trenches teaching and in psychology.

You can find me, Chuck Schallhorn at https://twitter.com/psydways.
Steve Jones is https://twitter.com/highschoolpsych and
Rob McEntarrfer is https://twitter.com/rmcenta.

#Psychat is a Twitter professional development opportunity for psychology teachers most Wednesdays.  The wonderful folks who run the show with organizing and setting up guest hosts are:
https://twitter.com/jenslish  (Jen)
https://twitter.com/irishteach (Heather)
https://twitter.com/amyramponi (Amy)

Follow them and get some great ideas for class and keep up with the field of psychology and teaching.  The remaining schedule of topics, hosts, and archives are available on the graphic below. There have been quite a few already this year.

Archives of #psychat available at: https://storify.com/psychatmail


posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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Highlighting Psychology Teachers-Jennifer Schlicht

This is the first in what I hope is a series of highlighting teachers and their contributions to the teaching of psychology across the nation/world.

Our first teacher is Jennifer Schlicht of Olathe High School in Olathe, Kansas near Kansas City. She has been teaching for sixteen years, the past ten in Psychology and Advanced Placement Psychology. She has also taught Cross-Cultural Connections and Seventh Grade Social Studies (that should earn her a medal, IMO).

Professionally, Jennifer has created a blog to make connections between psychology and popular culture. She finds clips on YouTube, embeds them into her blog and posts to share with her students. She now gets to share them with you--they are at this address: http://psychteach.com/. She began the blog to keep track of the clips she found.  I'm glad she did--there are some wonderful ones there.

Jennifer is also an active Twitter user with the handle of @Jenslish (http://twitter.com/jenslish).  She is one of the creators and coordinators of #psychat, a weekly professional development conversation to bring together various experts and teachers via Twitter.  While I cannot make it every week, I have been able to enjoy a few sessions where I have both led and participated--it's great fun.

Jennifer is also the NCSS Psychology Community Co-Chair, so she is making inroads into an organization that has been primarily geared toward history, geography, and civics teachers.

One of her beliefs about people and life is that the more you know, the funnier it is.  That is why I am rarely bored.  I know what is going on (or make something up)

Jennifer is looking for more people to participate in #psychat.  She loves her dogs and is looking forward to using her new pup in the learning unit

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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#Psychat Archive for Review Ideas and Activities

One option for compiling a series of tweets is the online tool called Storify.  I'll go into a post later about using this technology in your classroom.

In the meantime, here is the Storify compilation of Tweets from the #psychat conversation we had on April 30, 2014 while we discussed reviewing for the AP Psychology Exam.

The direct link is here:
https://storify.com/psychatmail/ap-psych-review-4-30

In addition to Steve Jones @highschoolpsych and Chuck Schallhorn @psydways, there are many high school psych teachers worth following as well as hundreds of college and professional psychologists and organizations (yet another post).  Check them out.  The more you follow, the more great suggestions you will receive.

posted by Chuck Schallhorn

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