DOTDEP stands for DIRECTORS OF TRAINING IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY and is the major initiative of the Education and Training Committee of Division 7 of APA.

Mission

The overarching missions of DOTDEP are

_ to foster and enhance academic training in developmental psychology and its related specialties, and:

_ to serve the needs of directors/heads of developmental psychology training programs.

Programs

To implement these goals, DOTDEP has begun a number of programs. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available. If you are interested in helping with one or more of these projects, please contact the person listed in parentheses.

_ Electronic Brochure of Graduate Developmental Programs (Lynn Liben)

A printed version of Graduate Programs in Developmental Psychology was last produced in 1993. We are currently developing a survey that will enable us to post a short statement about each graduate program on the DOTDEP website, with links to the graduate programs' own websites. Please watch for updates concerning this project.

_ APA Convention 2000: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Judith Smetana)

A Symposium will be held at the APA Convention called "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Teaching the History of Developmental Psychology." There will be brief presentations by Lynn Liben, Richard Weinberg, and Robert Wozniak. The presentations are designed to lay the groundwork for audience discussion about how to incorporate the historical foundations of developmental psychology into graduate training. The program is also meant to facilitate discussion of the graduate curriculum more generally, and thus although it is formally listed as a "Symposium," please expect to participate actively. It will be held on Friday, August 4, 2000 at the APA Convention in Washington, DC in Meeting Room 36 of the Convention Center, from 9:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

_ SRCD Pre-meeting: Developmental Program Discussions (Marvin Daehler)

The Committee is now organizing a meeting of DOTDEP to be held on Thursday, April 19, 2001 just before the biennial meetings of SRCD in Minneapolis. The meeting will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:00 a.m. and continue until 11:30 a.m. The primary focus of the meeting is on opportunities to participate in two of four different workshops. Although the specific details have yet to be completed (and some facilitators for each workshop may yet change), the topics currently being planned include:

1. purposes and strengths of various formats for completing comprehensives (facilitators: Lynn Liben, Pennsylvania State University; Ann Masten, University of Minnesota)
2. importance and effective ways of incorporating applied and practicum experiences into developmental training (facilitators: Leslie Rescorla, Bryn Mawr, Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro, Fordham University),
3. kinds of experiences, resources, and evaluative mechanisms for promoting successful teacher preparation in graduate training (Cecilia Shore, Miami University of Ohio; Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education, facilitators), and
4. confronting difficulties in the new millennium for developmental psychology, e.g. recruiting high quality graduate applicants, keeping up with new technologies, obtaining access to research populations, etc. (Richard Weinberg, University of Minnesota; Steve Reznick, University of North Carolina)

The Education and Training Committee of Division 7 of APA invites representatives from all programs concerned with developmental psychology, whether located in departments of psychology, departments or colleges of education, human development, pediatrics, or home economics to participate in the DOTDEP meeting. A representative from your program should plan to arrive in Minneapolis Wednesday evening (April 18, 2001) in order to take part in the meeting on Thursday morning. Please bring this announcement to the attention of the individual who has primary responsibility for directing the Developmental Program in your department or college. Of course, if that individual is not able to attend, another representative from your program would be welcome. Marvin Daehler, with the assistance of the other members of the Education and Training Committee, will be organizing the meeting in Minneapolis. You may contact him at marvin.w.daehler@psych.umass.edu, by regular mail at the Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Box 37710, Amherst, MA 01003-7710, or via telephone at 413.545.2429. Also, please send him the name of the individual who will be representing your program at the meeting.

Members of the Education and Training Committee (1999-2001) are listed below. Please feel free to contact any committee member concerning the programs listed above, with questions, or to offer suggestions for other programs.

Lynn S. Liben (Chair), Pennsylvania State University, liben@psu.edu
Marvin W. Daehler, University of Massachusetts, marvin.w.daehler@psych.umass.edu
Judith G. Smetana, University of Rochester, smetana@psych.rochester.edu
Richard A. Weinberg, University of Minnesota, weinb002@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Robert Wozniak, Bryn Mawr, rwozniak@brynmawr.edu