[FOXTOP] A quick note

[Jim Frailing]

Hi Everyone:

 

I hope the year is going well.  With only a few short weeks until the AP Psychology Exam, I am sure many of you are in a "rush to the test" mode.  In some ways I long for the days before the AP Psychology exam was instituted and we didn't have this "day of reckoning" hanging over our heads.  Best of luck to you and your students on May 11th.

 

I'm writing primarily to let you know about two opportunities for professional development. 

 

 

The 10th annual Enhancing the Teaching of Psychology Conference will be held on May 19, 2010 at UW-Green Bay.  The scheduled talks include:

 

Helping Students Distinguish Science from Pseudoscience - Scott Lilienfeld  (Emory University)

 

Threshold Concepts in Psychology - Jeff Henriques (UW-Madison)

                               

U-Pace Instruction: Enabling a Diversity of Students to Succeed - Diane Reddy, Raymond Fleming, Katie Ports, & Rodney Swain (UW-Milwaukee)

 

Teaching  sensitive/controversial/resistance-prone subjects - Cyndi Kernihan (UW-River Falls)

 

Learning from Disasters - Elizabeth Yost Hammer (Xavier University)

 

DSM_V: Some answers, opinions, and the story so far - Scott Lilienfeld  (Emory University)

 

How much Feedback is Good feedback:  Developing Writing - Illene Noppe -  (UW-Green Bay)

 

Teaching with Technology - Tanya Joosten  (UW-Milwaukee)

 

The early bird registration fee (before April 29) is only $15 for high school teachers ($10 for members of TOPSS).  At that price you can't go wrong.  For more information go to  http://www.uwgb.edu/gurungr/teachpsych.htm or contact Regan Gurung at gur...@uwgb.edu or 920-465-5679.  I would be more than happy to email the Conference Program and/or Registration form to anyone interested.  Simply contact me at the address below.

 

For those of you closer to the Milwaukee area, on April 28, 2010 at the Brookfield Country Inn and Suites, Dr Steve Fanzoi of Marquette University and author of the new high school psychology text, Psychology: A Discovery Experience from Cengage Publishing will be giving a talk on how to make teaching psychology a discovery experience for our students.  Dr Fanzoi will share techniques he has developed in over 30 years of teaching psychology including self-report questionnaires he has his students complete.  The event will begin at 3:30 pm, with supper at 4 pm and Dr Fanzoi's address from 5 to 6 pm.  The event is free to all interested psychology teachers.  RSVP to Mary Summers at mary.s...@cengage.com by April 26.  This sounds like a perfect opportunity to hear a nationally known author right from our own backyard.

 

This year we are going to try something a bit different with our spring Milwaukee Area Teachers of Psychology (MATOP) meeting.  Rather than having the meeting before the May 11th AP Psychology exam which in the past has overlapped with many teacher's review sessions, we will meet after the exam.  This will give us an opportunity to analyze the 2010 free response questions and start looking forward to next year. 

 

Again, best of luck with those taking the AP Psychology exam.

 

Take care,

 

Kent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kent Korek

Germantown High School

W180 N11501 River Lane

Germantown, WI 53022

Phone: 262-253-3400

Fax: 262-253-3494

kko...@germantown.k12.wi.us

Class Website: http://www.classzoom.com/dove/web_pages/kkorek/

The Teaching of High School Psychology Blog: http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/

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Neenah Joint School District

Neenah, Wisconsin 54956

http://www.neenah.k12.wi.us

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