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Want to better engage your students? Connect with them more directly by taking advantage of the materials, activities, exercises, and demonstrations included in this curated collection of teaching aids.

The ISSEP Task Force for Pedagogical Advancement has worked with experts in the field to help bring together a set of useful teaching aids. All the materials included here either provide general support for engaging instruction, or communicate or incorporate at least some aspect of the science of existential psychology.

We are also actively calling for instructors to share their relevant teaching aids and materials. To share yours, please send them as an email attachment to info@issep.org with the subject line “Teaching aid for existential psychology.”

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Teaching Psychological Science – Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Topics: Social Psych; Personality Psych; Health Psych; Intro to Psych; Research Methods & Statistics.

Resource types: Video tutorials, teaching blogs, classroom activities; science-focused lesson plans; links to sites dedicated to making psych science accessible to students; “Inside the Psychologists’ Studio” interviews with leading figures in psych science; APS Teaching Fund (small grants for teaching psych science); a teaching journal; research-based best practices for teaching psych science; career center; online teaching; teaching the “new statistics”.

TeachPsychScience.org

Topics: Research Methods; Statistics: Communicating Psych Science

Resources for: In-class teaching; Online teaching; Open science

Resource types: Syllabi, lecture slides; activities/demonstrations; videos; labs; practice/assignments; exemplar articles; teaching best practices; online teaching materials.

National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP)

Topics: Psychological Science.

Resource types: Annual conference; teaching awards.

Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP; Division 2 of APA)

Topics: All psychology content areas; research methods; statistics; academic advising; ethical issues; diversity; faculty development; national standards.

Resource types: Syllabi (“Project Syllabus”); e-books; teaching ideas (activities, exercises, demonstrations); model teaching criteria; undergraduate research; capstone courses; podcasts; peer-reviewed teaching journal; annual conferences; teaching grants and awards; news/blogs.

Teaching Resources – Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Topics: Social Psych; Personality Psych; Health Psych; Intro to Psych; Research Methods & Statistics.

Resource types: Syllabi, recommended textbooks, activities/demonstrations; videos.

Social Psychology Teaching Resources – Social Psychology Network (SPN)

Topics: Social Psychology.

Resource types: How-to resources (journals; professional groups; tip sheets, books, and essays on teaching); lecture notes; visual aids and handouts; interactive student activities; assignments; quizzes, exams, and essay questions; tips for students; online instruction guides; minority student resources.

Educational Video Channels Educational Video Channels

There are lots of great videos out there, many of which cover topics relevant to the psychological science of existential psychology. Here are 12 of our favorites:

  1. Closer to Truth

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/CloserToTruthTV
    About: Closer To Truth is the definitive source for Cosmos, Consciousness, and Meaning. Filmed on location, Closer To Truth features leading philosophers and scientists exploring humanity’s deepest questions. On the air continuously since 2000, Closer To Truth is broadcast weekly on PBS and public television stations in the U.S.

  2. John Templeton Foundation

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/TempletonFoundation
    About: The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for research on what scientists and philosophers call the Big Questions. We support work at the world’s top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and social science relating to love, forgiveness, creativity, purpose, and the nature and origin of religious belief. We encourage informed, open-minded dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians as they apply themselves to the most profound issues in their particular disciplines. And we seek to stimulate new thinking about wealth creation in the developing world, character education in schools and universities, and programs for cultivating the talents of gifted children.

  3. Ernest Becker Foundation

    Udemy course (free!): https://www.udemy.com/course/existential-anxiety-and-the-human-experience/

    YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCco5vrw5qaSiOP1gCGVMUGw
    About: The Ernest Becker Foundation seeks to advance understanding, based on decades of research, of how the awareness of our mortality profoundly influences human behavior, on both an individual and societal level. Ernest Becker’s writings gave rise to the field of psychology known as Terror Management Theory, which now has more than 1000 studies in over 25 countries. The free Udemy course entails four video lectures, including an introduction to Ernest Becker, an overview of Terror Management Theory, a contemplation of our own mortality, and applications to the world around us. The EBF YouTube channel includes course lectures, conference events, and webinars. In addition to the EBF YouTube channel, visit ernestbecker.org to check out the audio of Ernest Becker, himself, discussing his ideas on various radio shows as well as his 1974 death-bed interview conversation with philosopher Sam Keene.

  4. TED-Ed

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/teded
    About: TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of TED-Ed animations, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website (ed.ted.com). Want to suggest an idea for a TED-Ed animation or get involved with TED-Ed? Visit our website at: http://ed.ted.com/get_involved.

  5. TEDx Talks

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks
    About: TEDx is an international community that organizes TED-style events anywhere and everywhere -- celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage. TEDx events are produced independently of TED conferences, each event curates speakers on their own, but based on TED’s format and rules

  6. TED Talks

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/TED
    About: The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You’re welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know

  7. Social Psych Online: Be a People Expert!

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndyLuttrell5
    About: “Be a People Expert” is all about social psychology. Through regular videos, you’ll learn about the science of psychology an what makes people think and act the way they do. Subscribe to be the first to find out about new videos!

  8. The Psych Show: Weekly Adventures in Psychology

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/thepsychshowdotcom
    About: Do you want to better understand your thoughts, feelings, and actions? Be a better friend, manage stress, and make healthier choices? I’m clinical psychologist Dr. Ali Mattu. I was an assistant professor at Columbia University. I’ve worked with Netflix, Buzzfeed, and HBO. Now I make videos about mental health and psychology that are fun and easy to understand. On The Psych Show you’ll see mental health tutorials, reactions to pop culture, product reviews, psychology career advice, and you can join me on my call in show or my live hangouts. New videos are released every Wednesday. If you love mental health or psychology, this is the home for you.

  9. SciShow Psych

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/SciShowPsych
    About: Twice a week, SciShow Psych digs into the science of...us! SciShow Psych is all about the human brain and how we humans interact with the world. Hosts Hank Green, Brit Garner, and Anthony Brown explain ground-breaking studies and contextualize psychology throughout history.

  10. Brain Craft

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/braincraftvideo
    About: I’m Vanessa Hill, a science journalist and video producer. On BrainCraft I cover self- improvement tips and advice based in psychology and neuroscience. My mission is to bridge the gap between scientific research and your daily well-being. I used to work for PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service) and for CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. I have a psych degree from UNSW and a masters in science communication from ANU.

  11. All About Psychology

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/LearnAboutPsychology
    About: Showcasing the very best psychology related videos available online

  12. Psych2Go

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/Psych2go
    About: Your weekly dose of fun and interesting psychology, creepy psychology, psychopaths, serial killers, pop psychology, political psychology. Pretty much whatever you learn in school, but just in a way that you can apply and relate.