This
site provides Teachers with
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An opportunity
to share good practice |
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An opportunity to download
shared materials and edit them to suit your learners |
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An opportunity to publicise
events, communicating with all registered teachers in
the country |
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We can share schemes of
work, lesson plans, and worksheets – anything
we like that will enhance our teaching and learning. |
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If your students are registered
you will be able to message whole classes or groups;
create homework folders to set and collect work for
assessment etc. |
 To
promote the sharing of good practice, registration for psychology
teachers will be FREE this year (2005) thereafter is may be
necessary to make a small charge to new members to cover administration
costs, BUT
Register before 31st October 2005 and you will
have FREE membership for LIFE.
In addition, if you register before 31st October 2005, you
can register all your students for a free 30 day
trial – they will need to pay
to subscribe thereafter, but if you encourage them to register
together
in one application the price is considerably reduced. See
the registration page for details.
What will the site offer when you register?
Sharing Good Practice – You will be able to download
lesson plans, handouts, quizzes etc from the library. The
library will be resourced by you and other teachers that
are willing to share their ideas, schemes of work etc.
Full guidelines will be available as to how to share ideas
but just in case you are concerned about copyright – clearly
mark your work with your name and the date posted onto the
site. People may then use your work under the ‘reasonable
usage’ terms of copyright, that is, with their own
students only. No one will be allowed to sell on your work
or publish it.
Let’s have a look at some example work offered by
teachers in Plymouth:
Sharing ideas – there will be a forum to discuss any
issues that concern you during your teaching. For example,
we might discuss the relative worth of becoming an examiner;
the new AEA, brain based teaching etc. You set the agenda
and can create forums within your own school/college, within
consortiums, across a region or to all registered psychology
teachers.
You can also share ideas by editing library contents. You
may like the stress lesson outline for example, but feel
that it needs adapting for your students. You can edit the
lesson plan, upload it to sit along side the original and
now teachers have two variations to consider and maybe adapt
further.
Promoting integrated e-learning – the system will
allow you to communicate with your registered students. You
can send them messages if a teacher is off sick and direct
them to areas on the site to work independently or in groups.
You can tailor lessons around the students’ side of
the site, encouraging web usage and class room activities.
Promoting Psychology – you can set up communities
that reflect one class; the whole school/college; consortiums;
regions etc. Psychology Together encourages students and
staff to meet and promote psychology in their area. You can
organise events easily through the message system; advertise
them on the bulletin board and encourage feedback from events
without wasting money on postage or time in a meeting!
Keeping In Touch – teachers can often be isolated,
the only one in their department or in such a big department
that there is little time to meet. The extra net allows communication
with immediate staff, local consortium staff; a designated
region or the whole teaching community. A helping hand or
listening ear at the touch of your web browser!
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