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This website gives a lot of practices and ideas for teacher. It is a lot of help!

The home page of thinkib.net IB Psychology. Browse the last pages, blog posts, check the sitemap, get some Teaching Materials and share knowledge with the thinkib.net IB community. It's $240 per year but well worth the fee, especially if you are new to IB Psych.

Totally agree. It's well worth the money. My school paid for it last year and I'm hoping it will continue to pay for it the next year as well. The website complements the Oxford Study Guide

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."

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.

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.

Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback.

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.

Psyche is a publication of the School of Psychology (Catholic University of Chile) , which publishes original, empirical preferably in different areas of scientific and professional psychology.

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

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

Article about ADHD and diagnosis.

Here is a site I've used as a school counselor to direct IBDP students to when dealing with stress. It can help them identify stressors, the good an bad things about stress and there are helpful resources (goal setting worksheets, journals etc) to help in the management of stress. May be a helpful site to direct students to when covering Stressors when teaching about Health Psychology. It provides a practical application to what is being covered.

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

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.