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July 28, 2007 UWGB conference focuses on psychology curriculum High school teachers gather at college By Sara Boyd
Thirty-two teachers from across the country came to UW-Green Bay to focus on enhancing high school psychology curricula.
Through presentations and demonstrations on advances in psychology, the teachers helped update the national standards and lesson plans for teaching psychology.
"(These teachers) are playing a major role in something that's going to help high school teachers nationwide," Gurung said.
The week's focus on biopsychology, the study of the biological basis of behavior, is the first of five domains in psychology the institute wants to tackle.
Teachers from California, Texas and New Jersey came to hear experts from Seattle, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina, Gurung said.
The institute was funded by the American Psychology Association with additional help from the Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools, he said.
Amy Fineburg, the social studies department chair at Spain Park High School in Hoover, Ala., planned the program to give support and development to teachers across the nation.
"With the friendliness of the campus and the access to good facilities, we felt this would be a really good fit," she said, "and it would attract people from this part of the country as well as all different parts of the country."
Amanda Jeske, a psychology major who recently graduated from UW-Green Bay, said the program will benefit the university.
"If we can have institutes like this and give people great ideas on how to learn and how to teach passionately about (psychology), it will make students passionate about it," she said. "It can really help the psychology field and it will only better the world."
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