Teaching Psychology : A Step-by-step Guide

Now in its fourth edition, Teaching Psychology: A Step-By-Step Guide synthesizes the latest pedagogical research on effective teaching and translates it into recommendations for classroom application. It explores the rapidly changing academic landscape and offers innovative ideas for teaching psychology and creating inclusive classrooms where all students can experience a sense of belongingness and psychological safety.

This comprehensive volume covers key topics such as planning a course, choosing teaching methods that promote well-being, diversity and inclusion, assimilating technology (including Artificial Intelligence), and the integration of teaching into the rest of your academic life. The authors include an abundance of supportive, supplementary content to guide and inform new teachers, including their own real-life anecdotes and examples. Fully revised throughout, this new edition analyses updated research on topics such as student evaluations of teaching, establishing the value of your courses, student motivation, and trigger warnings. This edition also features a completely new chapter on teaching psychology abroad and focuses on the goals of post-pandemic teaching, including harnessing the power of online and hybrid teaching environments.

Presenting a valuable and cutting-edge guide for psychology teachers, this book is a vital resource for those who are training psychology instructors or undertaking a teaching psychology course. It is also a useful text for more experienced faculty who wish to reevaluate their current teaching practices and explore new teaching ideas and techniques.

Douglas A. Bernstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign and Courtesy Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, USA. He was chairman of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology for 30 years, and in 2018 founded the Biennial International Seminar on the Teaching of Psychological Science. He has won several teaching awards, including the APA Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award.

Sue Frantz is Faculty Emerita for Highline College and Affiliate Faculty for New Mexico State University, USA, with over 30 years of psychology teaching experience. She writes a blog on the teaching of psychology. In 2016, Frantz received the highest honor in the teaching of psychology―the APF Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award.

Stephen L. Chew is Professor of Psychology at Samford University, USA. He studies the cognitive basis of effective teaching and learning. He is also the recipient of multiple national teaching awards and serves as the chair of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology.