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'AS' Psychology Teaching Guide
Morag Chase and Grahame Hill

The 'AS' Psychology Teaching Guide has been written to provide new and established teachers with a comprehensive guide to the teaching of Edexcel AS Psychology.

The ‘AS’ Psychology Teaching Guide will be of immense benefit to NQTs and students studying for their PGCE, whilst also offering the more experienced teacher guidance, new approaches and potentially a different perspective for their teaching of Edexcel ‘AS’ Psychology. This publication will allow teachers to plan and implement lessons for ‘AS’ Psychology with efficiency and confidence.

The main part of the book focuses on topic structures, central terms/concepts, formal and informal assessments and lesson activities for each of the AS units.

The ‘AS’ Psychology Teaching Guide offers a useful overview for each unit and includes teaching ideas that can be adapted to meet teachers own teaching style and institutional needs. This should also allow a new or inexperienced teacher to quickly establish rigorous teaching files and quickly gain confidence.

This practical and informative publication has been written by experienced Psychology teaching professionals.

This book is ideal for:

• Newly-qualified teachers who need guidance through the requirements of the specification and a set of ready-made resources and ideas for teaching activities.
• Established teachers who are new to the subject or specification and need ideas for resources and teaching activities.
• Established teachers wishing to review their resources.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Lesson Plan
• Unit 1: Cognitive, Social and Development Processes
  • The Cognitive Approach
  • The Social Approach
  • The Cognitive Developmental Approach
• Unit 2: Individual Differences, Physiology and Behaviour
  • The Learning Approach
  • The Psychodynamic Approach
  • The Physiological Approach
• Unit 3: Coursework
• Key Skills Opportunities
• Revision Activities

View the full contents list here

Authors:

Morag Chase has been teaching Psychology for 14 years and is Assistant Head of Psychology at a Sixth Form College with one of the largest Psychology departments in the country. She has also taught Psychology on university courses and in adult education as well as spending many years being an examiner for A Level.

Grahame Hill is an author of revision guides and an exercise book in Psychology. He contributed towards the creation of the Edexcel Psychology Specification.

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