2013 AERA Annual Meeting Message From The TEP Program Chair

The Teaching Educational Psychology (TEP) Special Interest Group (SIG) Program at the AERA Annual Meeting is a fabulous opportunity to share the research and work you have been doing all year with other who are like minded. Teaching Educational Psychology is especially important in this age of accreditation and accountability. Contributions to the theoretical and practical foundation of our profession are critical as we support and extend our area of expertise, as well as impact future educators with constructive and cutting edge research based methods.

Next year’s conference theme is “Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy and Praxis.” Our program is dependent upon the peer-review process, so please volunteer to be a reviewer. Last month we invited approximately 50 TEP members to review papers, as well as 6 graduate students. Currently, 21 have formally accepted the invitation to review, plus 3 graduate students. Only 2 have refused; however, we are still waiting to hear from 21 others. Please consider participating in the review process. This is a great opportunity for you to help select the papers and set the program for the conference.

I am aiming for 35 reviewers so that each person will need to review no more than 10 papers. Graduate students will be used as reviewers and their reviews will be considered by the review panel; however, their numerical scores are not used in calculating final evaluation of the submissions. This can be a fun process as you get to “peek” into the work currently being conducted by others interested in teaching educational psychology. In addition, we will need chairs and discussants for each session. Volunteer information can be found on the AERA website under the link for 2013 AERA Annual Meeting Online Portal. I encourage you to participate in these leadership roles as we continue to build a strong and effective TEP SIG!
Thank you!

Cynthia Bolton
2012-2013 TEP Program Chair

Graduate Student Corner

The TEP SIG welcomes graduate students to join. We encourage graduate students to become part of our SIG and engage in the wealth of networking opportunities that we offer. By contributing to the wiki and blog you can meet other educational psychologists with similar interests. By submitting articles to the TEP online journal and/or becoming a reviewer you can gain valuable experience that can help as you build your
career.

TEP Blog

The purpose of the TEP blog is to facilitate professional discussions among SIG members. The hope is that those who belong to the TEP SIG or those who are interested in topics related to Teaching Educational Psychology discussed in this TEP newsletter or TEP wiki will contribute to the blog. If you have a good idea for a topic that we could blog about, please send email to: [email protected], and post away! Vist the TEP blog at http://tepsig.blogspot.com.

TEP Wiki

The teaching ed psych wiki is a collection of materials helpful in teaching introductory educational psychology in teacher education programs. It provides a way for instructors of ed psych to share their best ideas and materials about their teaching. You can find the teachingedpsych wiki at http://teachingedpsych.wikispaces.com.