Background Information
Acronym: STP
Address: 750 First Street, NE
City: Washington, D.C.
Zip: 20002-4242
Web Address: http://teachpsych.lemoyne.edu

General Inquiries About Organization
Name and Title: Maureen McCarthy, Ph.D.; Director, Pre-College and Undergraduate Programs
Phone: (202) 336-6113
Fax: (202) 336-5962
E-mail: mmccarthy@apa.org

Forum Contact Person
Name and Title: Dr. Tom Pusateri
Address: Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, SO #303
City: Boca Raton
State: Florida
Zip: 33431
Fax: (561) 297-1006
E-mail: pusateri@fau.edu

Mission Statement:

The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) represents the interests of psychologists in academic institutions from the secondary through the graduate level. It promotes teaching excellence, research on teaching, and professional identity and development; sponsors and co-sponsors teaching-related programs at national and regional psychology conventions; publishes Teaching of Psychology; disseminates teaching and advising materials through the Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP); and administers annual Excellence in Teaching Awards and the G. Stanley Hall Lectures.

The original designation of the Society as least specialized might be questioned at this point. Although the Society tries to serve teachers in all environments and therefore shows many facets, the existence of a highly successful divisional journal and the clear presence of divisional activities at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association suggest that teaching of psychology involves specialization that incorporates its own body of research and its own body of practice.

[Source: Wight, R. D., & Davis, S. F. (1992). Division in Search of Self: A History of APA Division 2, The Division of the Teaching of Psychology. In A. E. Puente, J. R. Matthews, and C.L. Brewer (Eds.). Teaching Psychology in America: A History (pp. 365-384). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.]