Curricular Materials

From kindergarten through high school, whether you’re a math, science, social studies or English teacher, these resources can help you apply research on teaching and learning; find exciting lessons and activities; and stimulate interest and increase achievement.

Early Education

Early Education Guidelines (ELG) Educator Toolkit:

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

High School Standards

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: Deliberate practice — not rote repetition — can improve performance.
Autonomous Learners: Motivate your students by giving them choices.
Brain Function and Learning: Match your instruction to the various levels of maturity in your class.
Bullying: Understand the problem and effective interventions for your classroom.
Classroom Management: How to prevent and cope with discipline problems.
How Do My Students Think?: Diagnose your students' preconceptions and misconceptions.
Overcoming Misconceptions: How to get your students over their alternative conceptions for learning?
Using Praise: Providing positive feedback can help enhance student resilience and improve learning outcomes.
Improving Student-Teacher Relationships: Foster trust with your students to encourage higher achievement.
Classroom Data: Use classroom data to give systematic feedback to students to improve learning.

APA task force

High School Psychology: TOPSS

Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS)

Unit lesson plans: More than 20 plans are available to TOPSS members, each containing content outline, suggested resources and activities, references and more.
PowerPoint presentations: Demonstrations to use in your classroom.
Academic pacing calendars: Samples of actual calendars are provided from other psychology teachers.

TOPSS teaching resources

Teacher Stress

Addressing teacher stress: recognition, prevention and coping strategies.
Teacher needs survey: more than 2,000 teachers shared their professional development needs in classroom management, instructional strategies, classroom diversity and parental communication.
Combating teacher stress (PDF, 1.43MB): help with early career challenges.

Also of Interest

Early Learning Guidelines: Educator Toolkit.
Modules for Teachers: Applications of Psychological Science to Teaching and Learning.
Psychology in Schools and Education.
Topics Related to Children.