This is a sample course outline that shows how you can cover everything in a logical order. The units are from this textbook. Sample Two Year Course Outline Travis’ IB Psychology Course Outline – SL in One Year This is a one year SL course. The IB recommends 150 hours. Please know I have never taught SL in one year, …
Sample IB Psychology Course Outline (for first exams May 2027)
This is a sample course outline that shows how you can cover everything in a logical order. The units are from this textbook. Sample IB Psychology Course Outline – HL Only This is a Two Year HL course mapped onto a Northern hemisphere timetable (from St Maur, Japan’s schedule). YEAR ONE Semester One (65 lessons) Focus: Knowing the basics, including …
Beware the Booby Traps in Class Practicals
Sometimes I feel like a little kid running excitedly across a field towards a fancy new playground when I’m planning for this new course. Other times I feel like the field’s littered with landmines. A false step and I might blow up my leg, or in class I might miss something that has big ramifications down the line for students. …
How to get 7s in Paper One?Build a course on content, not concepts.
If you’re struggling to build your course on concepts, this post will explain why. About 12 years ago I realised how irrelevant command terms were for IB Psych exams. I lamented over lost time and energy spent focusing on these, at the expense of better things, like content. Since then I’ve tried to show you all what I learned. I …
One Word = Six Concepts: Beneficence
The 3Cs are confusing at first, but brush away the smoke and mirrors and you’ll see that if you teach psychology like you always have, your students will be well-prepared. In this post, I’ll show how one simple word could be used to evaluate research methods and linked to all six concepts. The Paper One essay in IB Psych will …
Product and Pricing List – 2025 ThemEd’s IB Psychology
All prices in USD. VISIT OUR ONLINE STORE. The below guide has been made to help with budget proposals. Textbooks $59* per copy IB Psychology: A Student’s Guide (2nd edition – print) (Link) $39 per individual license to full eBook via issu.com $49* per copy IB Psychology: A Revision Guide (2nd edition – print) $39 eBook access to IB Psychology …
The Triple Cheeseburger Essay – IB Psychology
On the surface it seems like the new essays in IB Psych, Paper 1, Section C, are completely different to the old essays. Now there’s content linked with concepts and put into contexts and there’s no need for studies or critical thinking. However, scratch a little deeper and you’ll see nothing’s really changed. In this post I’ll explain my triple …
In Defense of Memorization
When Winston Churchill was at Harrow School he memorized all 70 stanzas of the poem “Horatius at the Bridge.” Highlands Latin School in Kentucky now gives students “The Winston Churchill Award” for anyone that can do the same. But memorization is a sin in modern education, I hear you say. Why on earth would well-meaning teachers be encouraging memorization? With …
Teacher Tip: First step to planning for the new IB Psych course
If you’re not sure where to begin planning for the new course, this post might help. Those of us used to teaching with the approaches and options combined, have a bit of a conceptual head start. However, it’s made incredibly easy by this new course which appears to be designed to be taught this way. #1. Start with the contexts, …
Example Essay: “Strategies used to measure theory of mind.”
The following is an example essay I wrote for the new curriculum. It answers the (problematic) question on the specimen paper. I’ve included a commentary along the side of this which shows my thinking about how to approach these new essays. In a nutshell, I haven’t changed a thing – students need to explain the topic, explain research and think …