European Training Initiative for Psychology Faculty Renewal

1. Third International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology Saint Petersburg, July 12 - 16 2008 European Network for Psychology Learning and Teaching Doris Vasconcellos Associate Professor University of Paris Descartes

2. European Context During the next five years all European countries will experience a major turnover of faculties. This is a unique opportunity to coordinate the training of new faculty all over Europe

3. A short story… United Kingdom Annie Trapp Higher Education Academy Psychology Network http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/ European Community grants for Thematic Networks: Lifelong Learning Program

4. First meeting: Royal Holloway College, London 10 and 11 August 2007 4 United Kingdom 2 France 1 Holland 1 Austria 1 Sweden 1 Czech Republic EUROPLAT steering committee

5. Second Meeting Villa Finaly, Florence 30 January, 1 & 2 February, 2008 Austria Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic France Germany Holland Italy Lithuania Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Spain United Kingdom Fifteen countries represented: Ten others to be contacted: Luxemburg, Hungary, Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, Greece

6. www.europlat.org Professor Joerg Zumbach Salzburg University

7. EUROPLAT objectives • Define and promote innovative teaching methods. • Identify pedagogical resources and make them available to the network members. • Develop procedures to evaluate teaching methods and results. • Award a certification of teaching training for graduate students. • Extend jobs opportunities for psychology graduate students.

8. Propose symposia on teaching psychology at all international conferences on psychology so as to make researchers and professionals aware of teaching methodologies: ICP Berlin July 2008, Oslo 2009 • Establish an annual EUROPLAT Summer School for the pedagogical training of graduate students from all European countries. • Promote exchange of graduate students and professors among the universities of all member countries. • Organize in every member country an annual national meeting on psychology learning and teaching.

9. Survey of undergraduate students about teaching methods employed in Paris Descartes : Make course structure clearer Deeper content More multimedia support Avoid classes that are a PowerPoint reading More on-line courses Better designed MCQ Make answers to exams questions available on-line

10. Training European graduate students to : • Promote active learning and critical thinking • Improve students’ capacity to make oral and poster presentations • Give access to the latest research on teaching methods and techniques • Use on-line, e-learning and other modern technologies • Teach large classes • Manage classes with students from different cultures

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