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As youth serving librarians, we have a unique opportunity to build relationships and interact with young children and their families. This opportunity allows us to support families in many ways: building literacy skills, learning the importance of play, enjoying library programs, and of course much more.  Among the “much more” is the opportunity to speak with young children about race, to speak with caregivers about how to talk about race, and to model talking about race with children for their caregivers. It’s Never Too Early to Talk with Children about Race Research indicates both that children notice racial differences from a very young age (Winkler, 2009) and that if caregivers do not openly talk about race with children, children make up their own, often erroneous, meaning from what they see (Bigler, as cited in Dwyer, 2013). But, many caregivers/librarians/teachers, particularly white folks, are uncomfortable talking about race. They may feel...

Teaching resources are documents that can pertain to any aspect of teaching. Instructors have generously shared classroom activities, annotated bibliographies, film guides, lab manuals, advising aids, textbook compendiums, and much more.

Welcome to Child Growth and Development. This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.

This set of ancillary materials for Experimental Psychology was created under a Round Eleven Mini-Grant for Ancillary Materials Creation. Author's Description: "The purpose of this project was to create a set of ancillary materials for the open textbook Research Methods in Psychology, a textbook intended to be used for psychology research methods courses. At the start of this grant, the textbook was available through the University of Minnesota’s Open Textbook Library (open.lib.umn.edu/psychologyresearchmethods/) and could be found in most open material repositories. Since this grant was proposed, however, a more recent version of the text has been released by Price, Jhangiani, Chiang, Leighton, and Cuttler (https://opentext.wsu.edu/carriecuttler/). The resources developed for this grant can be used for the new edition of the text, although they were written for the earlier version. The current project helped create ancillary materials for each of the textbook’s thirteen chapters. These include slide presentations, test-banks, and online resources (e.g., websites, videos). Many of the resources shared here were a culmination of OER-enabled pedagogy, as students were actively involved in the creation of exam questions and collection of resources. I will continue to use this approach in my classroom, as students were able to meet course learning objectives while improving the base of OER for the course. In the future, I will provide more guidance to students in their creation of test questions and collection of resources, such as that provided by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani in this article: http://thatpsychprof.com/why-have-students-answer-questions-when-they-can-write-them/. Topics covered include: The Science of Psychology Getting Started in Research Research Ethics Theory in Psychology Psychological Measurement Experimental Research Nonexperimental Research Complex Research Designs Survey Research Single-Subject Research Presenting Your Research Descriptive Research Inferential Statistics

Sheet1 a href="https://doi.org/10.24839/2325-7342.JN23.2.141"Baker, D., & Chartier, C. R. (2018). Participant attentiveness to consent forms. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 23, 142-146. https://doi.org/10.24839/2325-7342.JN23.2.141/a This very accessible article describes an expe...

Improving students’ relationships with teachers has positive implications for students’ academic and social development.

A Guide to Theory: Florida State University's Higher Education Program

In 10 episodes, Thomas Frank teaches you study skills! Based on introductory college-level material and scientific studies, this course takes you through the tools and skills you need to get better at studying and finishing assignments in school and beyond.