Curricular Materials

Curriculum materials

Whether you’re a psychology, math, science, social studies, or english teacher, these resources can help you apply research on teaching and learning; find exciting lessons and activities; stimulate interest; and increase achievement.

Early Learning

Early Education Guidelines Educator Toolkit

  • Benchmarks per state for learning outcomes
  • Domains of early learning, outlined by the Head Start Child Framework
High School

National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula

  • Learning objectives for high school psychology students
  • Content and performance standards for teachers

Improving Your Classroom

Practice for Knowledge Acquisition

Practice for knowledge acquisition

Deliberate practice—not rote repetition—can improve performance. 
Writing

Assessment Guide for Teachers opens in new window

Helps teachers assess the effectiveness of their teaching strategies in the spirit of continuous improvement.
Autonomous Learners

Autonomous learners

Motivate your students by giving them choices. 
Child learning

Brain function and learning

Match your instruction to the various levels of maturity in your class. 
Bullying

Bullying

Understand the problem and effective interventions for your classroom. 
Classroom management

Classroom management

How to prevent and cope with discipline problems.
Child thinking

How do my students think?

Diagnose your students’ preconceptions and misconceptions.
Upset student

Overcoming misconceptions

How to get your students over their alternative conceptions for learning.
Using praise

Using praise

Providing positive feedback can help enhance student resilience and improve learning outcomes.
Student and teacher

Improving student-teacher relationships

Foster trust with your students to encourage higher achievement.
Classroom data

Classroom data

Use classroom data to give systematic feedback to students to improve learning.

High School Psychology

Members of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) have access to helpful curricular content:

  • Unit lesson plans
    More than 20 plans are available to TOPSS members, each containing content outline, suggested resources and activities, references, and more.
  • Academic pacing calendars
    Samples of actual calendars from other psychology teachers.
Date created: 2008