Upon the recommendation of the APA Committee of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS), the APA Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) invites nominations for the next National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula Working Group.
The National Standards Working Group is charged with facilitating the third revision of the National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula (APA, 2011) and coordinating its dissemination and implementation. The National Standards, available on the APA website, defines learning benchmarks for the high school psychology course. The current National Standards expires in August 2021. At the 2017 APA Summit on High School Psychology Education, a working group prepared a draft framework for the next revision of the standards, recommending that the next standards revision reflect the practices and crosscutting concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013), and include alignment to Strengthening Introductory Psychology: A New Model for Teaching the Introductory Course (Gurung et al., 2016), and Assessment of Outcomes of the Introductory Course in Psychology (APA, 2017).
The Working Group will be comprised of four high school teachers and three college faculty representatives. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominees to the Working Group should be familiar with the teaching of high school psychology, and be available to meet in Washington, DC, in 2018 and at least once more in 2019 and/or 2020. Nominees must be members or teacher affiliates of the American Psychological Association.
Nominations must be submitted with a supporting statement (500 words or fewer) of qualifications and a current resume or curriculum vita. Nominations and supporting materials should be sent to Emily Leary Chesnes, Assistant Director, Precollege and Undergraduate Education, at [email protected] by November 3, 2017. TOPSS Committee members will prepare a slate of nominees for appointment by the APA Board of Educational Affairs in November 2017.