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APA PFF Scholars Related links

Professional organizations

American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society

Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology

The April 2002 issue of the Council of Graduate Schools newsletter has an article summarizing students' comments about Preparing Future Faculty programs.

Grad Student Teaching Association of Society for Teaching Psychology

National Association of Graduate-Professional Students

American Association of Community Colleges See also Community College Journal of Research and Practice, which Miami has as an electronic journal, and Community College Review. Cecilia has print copies of articles about community college faculty as a career.

TIAA-CREF has a study of new faculty experiences

Teaching resources in Psychology (mostly)

Internet Resources (from Penn State)
Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology
Psych Web by Russ Dewey
Social psychology teaching resources
Diversity issues in psychology courses
The Teaching, Learning, & Technology Affiliate of AAHE (TLT Group)
Psi Chi website, focused on needs of undergrads

APS has a new website on teaching resources in psychology

http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/teachingres.html APA teaching resources

Professional development in academia

National Teaching & Learning Forum

Chronicle of Higher Education "I learned a lot about how to think like a faculty member by reading it." (offered by a colleague at a conference regarding "more ideas for enhancing grad prreparation for faculty roles")

Deliberations on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Use the menus to look for a variety of topics including portfolios and psychology-specific links.

Project NEXT: New Experiences in Teaching--for new PhDs in mathematics, so most relevant to teaching statistics, but some advice that is generally useful, like "keeping your research alive" and "questions to ask on the job interview"

The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University: Comments on preparation of graduate students to teach

APA's website on faculty development has links to resources on topics such as: academic careers, service learning, diversity, mentoring, the scholarship of teaching and learning, teaching portfolios, and technology.

Re-envisioning the Ph.D. site sponsored by Pew Charitable Trust provides resources for promising practices in doctoral education.

“The Ph.D.: A Tapestry of Change for the 21st Century,” November/December 2002, is posted. http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/resources/tapestry_index.html

Research on teaching and professional development by Baron Perlman & Lee McCann Includes titles such as:
What We Need to Know About Teaching and Teachers, A Faculty Perspective on Teaching Assistant Training,
Applicants For a Faculty Position Do Not Emphasize Teaching, New Faculty Want To Teach,
Faculty Recruitment and Excellent Undergraduate Teaching

<http://www.psychology.ltsn.ac.uk/journal.html> NEW JOURNAL: PSYCHOLOGY TEACHING AND LEARNING
STP members can receive this journal at the "overseas individual discount rate"

<http://www.apa.org/earlycareer/> NEW WEBPAGE FOR EARLY CAREER PSYCHOLOGISTS .

http://home.okstate.edu/homepages.nsf/toc/PFFmodulesneeded
Includes topics such as: Assessing Teaching: How do I know if my Teaching is Good? Service Learning Academic Collaboration
Team Development and Faculty Work

http://home.okstate.edu/homepages.nsf/toc/EDUC5110iepindex
Includes topics such as: Constructing Evaluation Rubrics, Developing Teaching Portfolios

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a great Career Network website with advice on getting a job and succeeding in academia

http://fp.dl.kent.edu/fcubed/modules/index.html Includes topics such as: the role of a professor, learning styles, and professional development.

Interviewing for a job in academia

Teaching non-traditional and first-generation college students

job tips and more job tips

teaching philosophy and teaching portfolios