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I am comparing and contrasting the IB and APA National Standards for High School Curriculum, looking for differences, similarities, and possible overlap. The following is the APA description attached to this URL: "In addition to setting forth learning objectives for high school psychology students, this document provides guidance for teaching based on active learning principles and recommendations for student learning assessment. This document is constructed to guide curriculum decisions by providing content and performance standards to guide teachers in designing instruction."

The APA/TOPSS released a manual for new psychology teachers, and it looks like it's full of great resources! See the announcement below for details. "New high school psychology teachers may have a number of questions about how to proceed with instruction in their first psychology teaching assignment.

yes. link to this page and check in every few days, it is slow in the summer but has great moderators and loads of information, you can also look at the archives by topic, it has been around for about 7 years.

also check out the lesson plans from TOPSS (you do need to be a member $50 per year), there is one are lesson plan available on Memory to give a sample but there is an outline, activities and resources for every chapter of the intro course

Improving science literacy in the United States requires strengthening science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at the middle- and high-school levels. Including a hands-on research experience element in the curricula of scientific disciplines is a crucial part of education in all STEM disciplines, including psychology.

This site lists recommended movies related to psychology, psychiatry, and mental illness (psychopathology). Portrayals of mental illness and treating professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, etc.) are considered. Additional areas of psychology (e.g., developmental, social) are being added. Full-text articles related to film and psychology written by the site's owner are available.

AP/IB Psychology Course Eastside High School - Emphasis on IA

this site is also easy to read and digestible for students in high school.

This is a very helpful link most specially to new teachers of Psychology. I find this link very informative and it added confidence in me. I will be using this for my first year of teaching and will be glad to share it to my colleagues in school as well. Thanks Jaime for sharing this.

Entertaining videos around 10min long, really good for revision and use in class.

The first in a series covering a variety of topics. High-energy speaker might be well-received by students.

Increases variation in teaching method. i shall use this in class

Excellent blog with current ideas added several times per week; may search by content

A compendium of resources for the teaching of personality psychology. The mission of Personality Pedagogy is to establish an online community of teacher-scholars which provides support and resources for the teaching of personality psychology. These resources include, but are not limited to, annotated high-quality links, examples, audio-visual material, slides, discussions, and documents.

Interesting Website with many resources. (Please note that it's set up for the AP format of teaching Psychology, but still a very useful for finding resources for IB too.)

A host of activities for all topics as well as various psychology news and links. Easily searchable with highly reputable information.

This is an Encyclopedia of Psychology that can be usefull to search about the history of psychology, theories and other subjects.

The Encyclopedia of Psychology is a collection of links to many areas of psychology. Our intent is to offer the best available sites organized to further the understanding of Psychology as a science.

The American psychological association is a site where student can read about a lot of topics, in a very high academic level. For some students this can be quite interesting and a good challenge, but the site contains more easy reading too, and also a lot of links and very good topics, and some huge databases.

This websites offers great idea for activities to use in Psychology and is a great place for teachers to come together and discuss resources.

The International Baccalaureate Website ~ "The Bible" I cannot recall how many times I have read the subject guide!

This article is about advanced techniques, the polish that can raise a candidates grades (to a high B or an A).

Great site to help students with their extended essays