Free CPD for OCR A-Level Psychology Teachers!
Are you teaching OCR A-Level Psychology and don’t know who to turn to for guidance, support and advice? This week tutor2u has extended its series of free webinars to include 5 new OCR specific...
What is reflection?
The word “reflect” is used more often now than it has ever been used before. Not only is it used in the teaching profession, where we are constantly advised to evaluate what we do in the classroom,...
tutor2 Psychology – Weekly Update
It’s been another busy week at tutor2u and this week we have extended our support and continued developing first class resources to get you ready for September.
Dads are to blame for over-cautious daughters
Researchers Lisa Hagan and Janet Kuebli recently researched the role of parental socialisation on their pre-school children’s behaviour, and found that it was fathers rather than mothers who...
Students as Co-planners and Teachers - Free Resource Download
This is not a new idea…but one I have thoroughly enjoyed. Have you ever asked a student to co-plan and deliver a lesson? And I'm not just talking about group work where students make a presentation...
Exploring the benefits of expressive writing
I started to explore the benefits of expressive writing in 2013, when I did my master’s at the University of Hertfordshire. But long before that, I had already been an "expressive writer". I truly...
Engaging reluctant writers - FREE resource inside
I love teaching psychology and have done so for a long time. It still saddens me that many of our students are choosing to study this subject under the misconception of it being a 'soft subject’....
Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person?
Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person? Sometimes it can be really difficult to maintain a positive attitude in life, as you face tricky situations at work or in your...
Reflecting on… mirror neurons
Mirror neurons were discovered in monkeys in the 1990s. They were activated in the pre-motor cortex when the monkeys performed a given action and when they saw another monkey, or a researcher,...
tutor2 Psychology – Weekly Update
Just because the summer holiday has arrived, it doesn’t mean that the tutor2u psychology team have stopped preparing for next term. Here’s an update on what happened last week:
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Do you want to master teaching research methods? Then join our FREE teacher CPD webinars
Last week we introduced our comprehensive range of FREE Teacher CPD webinars and now that list has just got bigger. We are delighted to introduce our new series of CPD Webinars titled: Mastering...
The Stroop test
If you are a Psychology teacher or student, some of you may have heard of this already. The Guardian newspaper science section recently ran an article on how to conduct the Stroop test, which might...
Pokémon: “gotta catch them all” & the craze behind it all
It wasn’t long ago that I wrote about smartphones and their use in the classroom, but now we have a new craze. It can be seen on the streets, in parks and even in the workplace! Looking around,...
Researchers have revealed that human brain has at least 180 different regions, which has not only confirmed the existence of 83 known regions, but also highlighted the addition of 97 new ones, but...
Thinking 'I can do better' really can improve performance
Professor Andrew Lane and his colleagues tested which psychological skills would help people improve their scores in an online game. With help from BBC Lab UK, they conducted a large experimental...
If you're at the ATP Conference - Join us for one of two breakout sessions at 9am in G22 or 11:45am in G22, where we will be giving away a pack of over 12 resources to enhance your students essay...
ATP Psychology Conference Give Away - Day 1
If you're at the ATP Conference - Visit the tutor2u stand today for the first day of resource give away. Today we are giving away over 75 packs of WOW Psychology resources. These include over 30...
Press delete to erase your bad memories
A recent study by Manning et al (May, 2016) demonstrated that you don’t have to relive bad events or unhappy times through your memory. It is possible to delete them and intentionally forget. ...
And breathe…
Blood coursing through your veins, dry mouth, heart pounding, sweaty palms, light headed…sound familiar? We have all experienced this physiological arousal at some point in our life, otherwise...