Training Materials
for Instructors in Psychology

Target courses

• Psych 101: Introductory psychology (60 contact hours)
• Psych 107: Psychological statistics (60 contact hours, lecture; 30 contact hours, lab)
• Psych 213W: Experimental psychology (90 contact hours)
• Psych 214: Developmental psychology (childhood and infancy) (45 contact hours)
• Psych 221: Psychopathology (45 contact hours)

Departmental, College and University Policies

• Materials about teaching, syllabi, advisement, calendars, etc.
  http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/provost/Cur_stud/index.html

• Psychology 101 research requirement
  http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Psychology/BAPROGRAM/psych101research.html 
  
• College policies on course withdrawals and absent and incomplete grades
  https://intaps.qc.cuny.edu/webgrade/regmemo.jsp
  
• Procedure for office hours, course syllabi, missed classes and final examinations
  http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/provost/Cur_stud/Course%20procedures.htm
  
• CUNY policy on academic integrity
  http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/2004/policies/policies.html
  
• Academic integrity and plagiarism section of Queens College faculty handbook
  http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/provost/Fac_staff/Queens%20Faculty%20Handbook%2001.htm#_Toc110848120
  
• May 4, 1990 memorandum: Suspicions of academic dishonesty
  
• Academic honesty and dishonesty: Information and suggestions for faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students
  
• Academic dishonesty: Suggestions and policy and procedures
  
• How to deal with distressed and/or disruptive students: A guide for Queens College faculty and staff (Queens College Counseling Services)
  http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ccrc/FS.html
  
• Student disciplinary process (Office of the Vice-President for Student Affairs)
  http://www.qc.cuny.edu/student_affairs/pdfs/Student_Disciplinary_Process.pdf

On Teaching

• Lessons Learned, Vol. 2: Practical advice for the teaching of psychology
  http://www.psychologicalscience.org/lessons/
  
• For better or worse (October 2, 2002): "The way I see it, a teacher has to be an entertainer..."
  
• "Dr. Crockett, can you tell me how to teach?"
  
• Understanding and preventing plagiarism, Joshua D. Landau (American Psychological Society, 16, 4, 2003)
  
• Encouraging student attendance, Merry J. Sleigh and Darren R. Ritzer (American Psychological Society, 14, 9, 2001)
  
• Strategies for effective teaching, Joseph C. Lowman
  
• Students' perceptions of faculty and graduate students as classroom teachers, Harold Schuckman (Teaching of Psychology, 17, 3, 1990)
  
• Psychology of the scientist: XLIX. On becoming a student---again, James V. McConnell (Psychological Reports, 52, 1983)