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Association for Psychology Teachers
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APT student conference 2010

Below are some useful links for students and teachers

Hot links

http://www.icepe.ie/
ICEP Europe (Institute of Child Education and Psychology Europe) is the trusted leading provider of high quality online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and University validated Diploma programmes in special educational needs for teachers, parents and allied professionals who work with children and young people.


http://www.youramazingbrain.org.uk/teachers/default.htm

This is the BPS's psychology teachers section of the fortnightly issed Readers' digest on the latest research in psychology. This is a link offering a fabulous array of resources teachers can use in their teaching.

Psychology societies and groups
British Psychological Society 

http://www.apa.org/ The American Psychology Association

http://www.psihq.ie/ The Psychology Society for Ireland

http://www.atps.org.uk/home.aspx The Association for the Teaching of Psychology in Scotland

http://www.theatp.org/ The Association for the Teaching of Psychology

A level Exam boards
AQA

Edexcel

OCR

SQA

WJEC

Some useful online resources

http://carolinerigby.wordpress.com/
Caroline is an experienced and enthusiastic teacher of psychology who sets a high standard in collegiality in sharing her ideas and findings on psychology in her blog. This will be of particular interest to teachers following A level Psychology Specification A.

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2006/12/public-health-leaflets-ignore-findings.html A fortnightly summary on a range of psychological research in accessibl and user-friendly language. ** Highly recommended

www.holah.co.uk Site for OCR AS

www.psychblog.co.uk Blog, mainly for OCR

www.onlineclassroom.tv DVDs and other resources

www.psychexchange.co.uk Site to share resources

www.uniview.co.uk All types of resources to purchase

www.s-cool.co.uk Revision for AQA

www.rcpsych.ac.uk Royal College of Psychiatry

www.bbc.co.uk BBC

www.psychlotron.org.uk Lots of PowerPoints & worksheets etc.

www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk Resources from the HE Academy

www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk National Science Learning Centre

www.youtube.com Great for short video clips

www.tes.co.uk Times Educational Supplement – job hunting, forums and latest educational news

www.psychology4a.com AQA A Psychology – resources from Robert Smyth School

www.aqabpsychology.co.uk AQA B Psychology – resources

www.clickpsych.com WJEC Psychology – resources

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/ BPS Research Digest – free summaries of current research

www.teachactive.co.uk Ideas for activities

www.simplypsychology.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk AQA B & GCSE resources

www.jeffstanden.net Resources for teachers and students

www.gerardkeegan.co.uk Resources for teachers and students

www.heinemann.co.uk/hotlinks Resources for OCR A2. Express Code 6934

www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_stressometer.html Stress quiz suitable for students

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/split.html Sperry Split brain experiments

http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/split-brain/index.html Sperry Split brain activities

www.psychologistworld.com An American site, there is a subscription, but a lot is available for free.

http://flashface.ctapt.de Build your own photofit

www.coolpsychologystuff.co.uk Buy psychology related resources.

Resources for Scottish Higher Psychology

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/psychologist JISC-Intute “Internet Psychologist” – learn how to use the internet for Psychology

http://www.sfeu.ac.uk/subject_networks/social_sciences SFEU/ Scotland’s Colleges – CPD events for FE staff in Scotland

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=27 For the latest from The Psychologist
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APT conference 2005. Speakers Jackie Abell, Michael Eysenck and Paul Gardner with teachers
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