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TOPSS Webinar on Teaching Resources [PDF]
These slides present useful TOPSS resources for common teaching challenges.
Critical Thinking Exercise 1.1: The Evolution of the Definition of Stress [PDF]
This activity will help students see how psychologists have changed how stress is defined over time.
Activity 6.4: Synthetic Happiness [PDF]
This activity has students engage with research on synthetic happiness.
Activity 1.1: Stress or Anxiety? [PDF]
This activity is designed to help students differentiate between stress and anxiety.
Activity 3.4: Heart Rate and Biodot Biofeedback Lab [PDF]
In this activity, students measure their heart rates to see how stress impacts our pulse.
Activity 3.1: TED-Ed Videos on the Stress Response [PDF]
This activity uses TED Talks to teach student about the stress response, our reaction to the stressorswe experience.
Activity 2.2: Internal Stress and Conflict [PDF]
This activity should help students generate their own examples of different internal conflicts, as well as differentiate between examples.
Critical Thinking Exercise 1.2: Distress vs Eustress [PDF]
The purpose of this activity is to help students gain a better understanding of stress, and how distress and eustress can impact us.
Activity 6.5: The Happiness Lab Podcast Walk [PDF]
Students are asked to listen to a podcast episode on the science of happiness.
Activity 2.1: Types of Stressors [PDF]
This activity will help students consider stressors in people’s lives and identify which type of stressor is being addressed.
Activity 6.1: Mindful Walking [PDF]
This activity allows students to directly practice engaging in a mindfulness activity.
Activity 6.3: Building Resilience [PDF]
Students can learn to become more resilient by completing this activity.
Activity 3.3: Brain Dump over the Stress Response [PDF]
This activity has students read and reflect on the stress response.
Critical Thinking Exercise 2.1: Teenage Stress [PDF]
This activity will have students read and reflect on three articles about teen stress.
Critical Thinking Exercise 1.3: What’s the Difference Between Stress and Anxiety? [PDF]
Activity 3.2: My Stress Response in Memes [PDF]
This activity has students create memes to understand the physiological and psychological components of stress.
Meet the 2019 APA Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools Charles T. Blair-Broeker Excellence in Teaching Award recipients
Rachel Chapman, Stephanie Franks and Casey Swanson all receive the APA TOPSS Charles T. Blair-Broeker Excellence in Teaching Award.
Stephanie Franks, MS: Lesson Plan for Psychodynamic Theory of Personality [PDF]
The two day lessons provided will assist with teaching the psychodynamic theory of personality, specifically Freud, psychoanalysis, his beliefs in regards to personality development, his legacy and criticism, as well as the introduction of Jung and Horney.
The answer is assessment
At the APA Summit on High School Psychology Education held in July of 2017, a working group on assessment created three deliverables to help teachers of psychology develop, refine, critique and add new assessments to their current repertoire.
Assessment Guide for Psychology Teachers [PDF]
This guide was developed to help teachers continue to build confidence in their assessment skills in order to provide useful feedback to students about their intellectual progress.
