Applications of Psychological Science to Teaching and Learning
About the APS-TL Taskforce
The public and policy makers recognize that teachers employ psychology every day when making instructional, assessment and classroom management decisions. Building on APA’s commitment to high quality instruction at the Pre-K-12 level, the Board of Educational Affairs sponsored a task force designed to explore the applications of psychological science to teaching and learning by tapping the expertise of psychologists from several sub-disciplines including: motivation, development, assessment, behavior management, social psychology, and learning and instruction, to work collaboratively on translating psychological literature associated with evidence based teaching strategies. The focus of the work is to integrate developmental and contextual concerns with research on instruction.
Members of the Task Force include: Chair, Mary Brabeck, Carol Dwyer, Sandra Graham, Joan Lucariello, Barbara McCombs, Thomas Kratochwill, Sara Rimm-Kaufman and Margaret Semrud-Clikeman.
Modules
The focus of our work is to integrate developmental and contextual concerns with research on instruction.
Ten teaching strategies were selected by the Task Force for development into a series of modules, each of which provides information on:
Why the topic is important
Recommendations for teachers
Why and how these teaching strategies work
FAQs
Where teachers can get more information
References
To view the modules, please visit the Teachers Modules page.
Classroom Management
The respondents to the Teachers Needs Survey identified working with disruptive students as an important concern. In response, CPSE commissioned Drs. Russ Skiba and Jack Cummings to develop two modules.
