Teaching Blogs-Some Favorites

Many of us are the only teachers of psychology in our schools.  That was one reason we created the Teaching High School Psychology Blog.  However, I suspect that most of us also teach other subjects in addition to Psychology.  I wanted to more directly point you to the other teaching blogs that are out there.

US History Teaching Blog
http://ushistoryeducatorblog.blogspot.com/

World History Teaching Blog
http://worldhistoryeducatorsblog.blogspot.com/

US Government Teaching Blog
http://usgovteducatorsblog.blogspot.com/

Teaching High School Sociology Blog
http://teachinghighschoolsociology.blogspot.com/

Free Technology for Teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/


Teaching High School Psychology Blog (our very own)
http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/

While I am biased toward these sites since they are written by high school teachers, I wonder if there are others our there.  What other blogs are you currently reading or utilizing?


Posted by Chuck Schallhorn

Heads of State

The following was posted this morning (02/15/10) on PsychTeacher, the listserv for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology:

"For those of you teaching Cognitive Psych, this link might provide interesting stimulus material for a discussion on feature and structural theories of pattern recognition. It certainly illustrates that facial recognition may be possible even without facial features present (or that hair should be considered a prominent facial feature). "

While the PsychTeacher posting centered on Cognitive Psych, I as a psychology and history major, was excited to see something which could be used in a psychology or US History course.

For a brief article and graphic on the heads and hair of former presidents, go to http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/15/opinion/20100215_OPART.html

For a similar article and graphic concerning the first ladies, go to http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/04/opinion/20090704_opart.html