Current Service Opportunities

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Members, STP’s DEIB Working Group

We seek applications for a new STP working group: Integrating DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) across the structure of STP.

In 2020, we put out a statement on our priorities around addressing racism and inequity within STP.

As an organization, we have made progress within the four priorities (Critical reflection and assessment, Representation, Equity, and Inclusivity), but still have much work to do. One important area of work that we are now undertaking is an assessment of how to integrate DEIB across all facets of our organizational structure , to ensure that equity and inclusion are embedded within all areas and integrated into the constitution of STP.

To create this structural change, we are forming a working group whose charge is to create recommendations for how to integrate DEIB across the structure of STP. The group would be engaged with questions such as the following:

• What structure can STP build to integrate DEIB throughout the organization, rather than have it as a silo or an add-on?
• What changes would be required to build a new equity-oriented structure? What resources would be needed?
• To reduce the burden for a few, in what ways can this work be shared by many?

Term of Service: Given the scope of the charge of this working group, the term will be August 2023 - August 2024 with reports due February and August.

If the working group determines that more time is needed to fulfill the scope of the work, and members are interested and able to continue to participate, the term of the working group can be extended.

Please include the following in your application:

• A short letter of application explaining your interest in and qualifications for the position (200-250 words).
• A current CV.

Please submit all materials to Diane Finley- president@teachpsych.org- no later than June 30, 2023

In your email, please identify the working group (Integrating DEIB across STP’s structure) in the subject line.

If you have any questions or need any clarification before you make your decision to apply, please do not hesitate to ask.

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Guest Editors, Special Issue of Teaching of Psychology on
"Promoting the Educational Experience for
Psychology Students and Faculty with Disabilities"

The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP), and its flagship journal Teaching of Psychology (ToP) is seeking applications for Guest Editors of a Special Issue in ToP on the Promoting the Educational Experience for Psychology Students and Faculty with Disabilities. Consistent with our Mission Statement and the Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism and Inequity in STP, we encourage applications from colleagues who are from underrepresented groups and have diverse backgrounds and experiences.

We are particularly looking for two to four scholars and practitioners who will act as a team of co-editors (you may apply as a team) to create a special issue that is ultimately focused on illuminating both the successful models of inclusive education and the issues students and faculty with disabilities face in the psychology courses and departments.

For the Special Issue, the topics may include (but are not limited to):

• Re-envisioning guidelines for disability education in psychology;
• Effective models and evidence-based practices for incorporating disability (both visible and non-visible) topics across the psychology curriculum;
• Adapting pedagogy to be inclusive and sensitive to meet the student and faculty needs;
• Recommendations on how to increase the representation of faculty and teachers of psychology (e.g., those with disabilities) in both STP and ToP;
• Teaching methods that may illuminate the psychological underpinnings of biases, bigotry, and/or prejudices towards students and faculty with disabilities;
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion issues and concerns surrounding psychology students and faculty with disabilities;
• Provide innovative and thought-provoking paradigm shifts in improving educational equality in psychology for students with disabilities;
• Understanding the intersectionality of gender, race, disability, mental health needs, housing and food insecurities among psychology students and how best to meet their needs; and/or
• Research on accessibility and/or how psychology faculty might ensure accessibility in their teaching practices.

Ultimately, though, the appointed guest editorial team will decide the specific focus of the special issue.

Below you will find a description of the duties and qualifications, terms of service, and application process.

Guest Co-Editor Duties & Qualifications:

• In coordination with the Editor of ToP, create the call for the special issue to be distributed to STP members and beyond.
• Actively solicit manuscripts from scholars in the field.
• Oversee the review process within the SAGE Track system. This will include receiving manuscripts, assigning reviewers, collating reviews, and making editorial decisions.
• Work side-by-side with the Editor of ToP to edit and finalize the articles in the special issue.
• Be well-versed in current SoTL research, including trends, historical references, etc. as they relate to the topic of this specific special issue.
• Must be a current STP member. Membership in APA not required. Membership in STP is $25/year, and $15/year for grad students, postdocs, and retirees.  

Timeline, and Term of Service: This is a one-time appointment that will last approximately 1 year (from solicitation to publisher proofs). The position will begin on August 1st^th, 2023, and end approximately by August 1^st, 2024.  A tentative timeline:

• After the Guest Editors have been selected and appointed (by August 1^st, 2023) they will create a call and advertise by September 1^st, 2023.
• Guest Editors will then solicit and receive manuscripts from September 2^nd to February 1^st, 2024.
• As manuscripts come in through SAGE Track, Guest Editors will screen and assign reviewers, collate reviews, and make decisions on each manuscript submitted.  

Please include the following in your application:

• A one-page letter of application explaining your qualifications for the position and why you (or your team) are interested in this position. This may include, but is not limited to, if you have been a guest editor before; experience in the review and publication process of peer-reviewed journal articles; and, potential themes that you would like to explore within the special issue.
• A current CV.
• The contact information for two references who can speak in detail about your qualifications for this position.
• You may apply as a team. If you are doing so, please provide all the information of the previous three steps.

Please submit all materials to Aaron S. Richmond (arichmo3@msudenver.edu) no later than Friday, July 7^th, 2023.  Once all applications have been received, the Editor of ToP will select who be the Guest Co-Editors.

If you have any questions or need any clarification before you make your decision to apply, please do not hesitate to ask.

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Chapter Authors, STP E-book: Beyond the Code: Integrating Ethics into the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum

Jessica Cerniak, Editor of STP e-books, is announcing a second call for chapters for a new e-book project developed in collaboration with the 2022 Presidential Task Force on Teaching Ethics: Literacy, Thinking, and Reasoning. Consistent with STP’s Mission Statement and the Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism and Inequity, we encourage applications from colleagues who are from underrepresented groups and have diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Tentatively titled, Beyond the Code: Integrating Ethics into the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum, the goal of this e-book is to provide instructors with concrete lesson plans and ideas for teaching ethics in various undergraduate psychology classes. This eBook will achieve a central goal of 2022 STP President Linda Woolf’s call for the task force: to enhance understanding of ethics and implementation to classes, such that students are prepared for any career path in and beyond psychology.

 

First, we seek contributions for traditional chapters that address:

●      An overview of ethical reasoning and decision-making

●      Guidelines for best practices in teaching ethics, including across modalities

 

Second, we seek chapters about lesson plans and activities that can be implemented in courses, including content courses (e.g., biological psychology, social psychology, developmental), courses that address DEI in psychology, experiential learning courses, and research methods and statistics courses. These lesson plans will include content about:

●      Course(s) that could implement the activity

●      Modalities (e.g., online, in-person, hybrid, synchronous remote)

●      Materials required

●      Narrative/description of the activity

●      Assessment options to determine if the learning objectives have been met

●      Considerations for how the activity could be adapted for different course modalities

●      Any considerations related to DEIJ for the activity

 

A brief (no more than one-page, single-spaced) proposal with the proposed title, chapter type (traditional chapter or lesson plan), and summary description is due by June 30, 2023. If submitting a lesson plan, please indicate the course that it relates to. Sample submissions for lesson plans and instructions can be found on the submission link. Submissions should be submitted to the hyperlinked form below:

 

Access Submission Form

 

Please contact the task force at stpethicsbook@gmail.com, with any questions.

 

Thank you!

STP published e-books related to the teaching and learning of psychology. These books are available on the STP website (https://teachpsych.org/ebooks/index.php) and can be downloaded for free.

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Associate Editor, Best Practices in Teaching and Learning

The Society for the Teaching of Psychology seeks an Associate Editor for Best Practices in Teaching and Learning to serve from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026 with option for renewal. Consistent with our Mission Statement and the Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism and Inequity in STP, we encourage applications from colleagues who are from underrepresented groups and have diverse backgrounds and experiences.

The Associate Editor will assist the Editor with soliciting appropriate materials related to various aspects of the teaching of psychology, receiving and coordinating the review of materials, and working with peer reviewers. Peer-reviewed materials are then made available on the STP website: https://teachpsych.org/page-1603066.

To apply, please send a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to STP’s Vice President for Resources, Bill Altman at vp-resources@teachpsych.org by August 1, 2023.

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Associate Editor, STP E-books

The Society for the Teaching of Psychology is now accepting applications for an Associate Editor for STP E-Books to serve January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026 with an option for renewal.  Consistent with our Mission Statement and the Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism and Inequity in STP, we encourage applications from colleagues who are from underrepresented groups and have diverse backgrounds and experiences.

The Associate Editor will  develop and/or edit one e-book that advances the causes of the Society, and review e-book proposals.

To apply, please send a current CV and a cover letter explaining your interest in this position and your relevant qualifications to Jessica Cerniak, Editor of STP E-books (e-books@teachpsych.org) by August 31, 2023.