This volume provides thoroughly updated guidelines for preparing and teaching an entire course in psychology. Based on best principles and effective psychological and pedagogical research, it offers practical suggestions for planning a course, choosing teaching methods, integrating technology appropriately and effectively, developing student evaluation instruments and programs, and ideas for evaluation of your own teaching effectiveness. While research-based, this book was developed to be a basic outline of "what to do" when you teach. It is intended as a self-help guide for relatively inexperienced psychology teachers, whether graduate students or new faculty, but also as a core reading assignment for those who train psychology instructors. Experienced faculty who wish to hone their teaching skills will find the book useful, too.

Author Biography

Sandra Goss Lucas was Director of Introductory Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1998 until 2009, and continues to teach psychology courses. She has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and has been a member of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology steering committee since 1986. She has authored textbooks and several published articles on teaching psychology. Douglas A. Bernstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Courtesy Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. For 35 years he served as a member of the planning committee, and then as committee chairman, for the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. He has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and has authored textbooks in a range of topics in psychology and on teaching psychology.