Psychology Teacher Professional Development Day 2026

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Session 1: The Neuroscience of Engagement: Experiential Techniques for Today's Distracted Minds 

Professor Peta Stapleton 

Discover how neuroscience can transform your teaching approach for today's digitally-wired students. Learn about brain mechanisms that enhance learning and experiential techniques proven effective even in intensive courses. Join this interactive session to gain practical, science-backed strategies that capture attention and improve retention across disciplines. Leave with immediately applicable approaches for engaging the "iPad generation" in meaningful learning experiences. 

Session 2 Part I: Statistics in Psychology – A Hands-On Approach in JASP (Part I)

Dr Megan Lee and Dr Daniel McKeon

In part one of this series, we will experience the process of psychological research from developing hypotheses through to entering data into JASP, cleaning the data, analysing descriptive statistics, and interpreting what they mean about our population. 

Session 2 Part II: Statistics in Psychology – A Hands-On Approach in JASP (Part II) 

Dr Megan Lee and Dr Daniel McKeon

In part two of this series, we will move on to conducting inferential statistics to discover if we have met our hypotheses. We will learn about associations and relationships through correlation analysis, the differences between groups using t-tests, and predictions through linear regression.

Session 3: Implementing Interactive Activities in Psychology (Learning and Behaviour, Cognitive Psychology, Biological Basis of Behaviour, Social Psychology) 

Dr Douglas Angus and Dr Anchal Garg

In this session, Dr Anchal Garg and Dr Douglas Angus will demonstrate three interactive activities that teachers can use to illustrate psychological principles and theories central to the discipline and the psychology curriculum. These activities focus on student interaction, engagement, and application of theory to actual scenarios. Areas covered include classical conditioning and learning, memory, and social influence.