This book is STP's third Web publication and represents the compilation of the thirteen E-xcellence in Teaching essays which appeared on the PsychTeacher™ electronic discussion list between January and December, 2002. Future volumes of this book will be published electronically to contain the previous year's essays.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Bill Buskist (Auburn University/Appalachian State University)
Vincent Hevern (Le Moyne College)
Bill Hill (Kennesaw State University)

1. Teaching Assistant Development: Research and Impressions (January 2002)
Loreto R. Prieto, The University of Akron

2. Making the Leap: Advising Students on Selecting a Graduate Program (February 2002)
Gary R. Hann and Jane S. Halonen, James Madison University

3. Bring Psychology to Life (March 2002)
Charles Blair-Broeker, Cedar Falls (Iowa) High School

4. Teaching Students with Disabilities (April 2002)
David Johnson, John Brown University

5. The National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology:
Twenty-Five Years and Counting [Special Invited Essay] (April 2002)
Douglas A. Bernstein, University of South Florida

6. Helping Your Students to Become Savvy Psychology Majors (May 2002)
Drew Appleby, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

7. Focusing on How We Know What We Know in the Psychology Classroom (June 2002)
Laura L. Namy, Emory University

8. Organizing and Maintaining University-Wide Teaching Circles (July 2002)
Lauren F. V. Scharff, Stephen F. Austin State University

9. The Landscape of Excellence in Teaching (August 2002)
Barney Beins, Ithaca College

10. Amen to Passion (September 2002)
Janie Wilson, Georgia Southern University

11. When Psychology Teachers Introspect (October 2002)
Larry W. Bates, University of North Alabama

12. On the Distinction Between the Scholarship of Teaching and Scholarly Teaching (November 2002)
Monica Reis-Bergin, James Madison University

With Replies

The Scholarship of Teaching: The Best of Both Worlds]
Diane F. Halpern, Claremont McKenna College

Pursuing Scholarly Teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching
Randolph A. Smith, Ouachita Baptist University

An Additional Model of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Daniel Bernstein, University of Kansas

Why I am Not a Chef Yet-A Reply to Halpern, Smith and Bernstein
Monica Reis-Bergan, James Madison University

[Note that theand buttons of the initial Reis-Bergin essay, On the Distinction..., provide a copy of the entire exchange among Reis-Bergin, Halpern, Smith, and Bernstein.]

13. Is This Going to be on the Test? (December 2002)
Phillip Lewis, Auburn University

Biographical Notes on Individual Contributors and Editors

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Acknowledgment and Thanks

We thank the authors of these essays for the insightful contributions they made to the literature on the teaching of psychology and the scholarship of teaching. We also thank the STP leadership for their continued support of the e-column. We dedicated Volume I to Jane Halonen (University of West Florida) for the role she played in helping establish E-xcellence in Teaching. We dedicate Volume II to Randy Smith (Kennesaw State University), for his consistent and unwavering championing of the scholarship of teaching in his role as editor of STP's journal, Teaching of Psychology.

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