Victor Karandashev, Aquinas College, the USA Leningrad State University, Russia

 APA Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP). ◦ OTRP develops and distributes instructional materials and provides services to psychology instructors ( ) ◦ Variety of teaching resources in psychology, including  resources for incorporating international content into existing courses  resources for developing courses on international psychology (e.g., syllabi, annotated bibliographies, videos),  textbooks in introductory psychology, social psychology, and life-span development evaluated for international content

 British resources ◦ PsychExchange.co.uk ((Jamie Davies and Mark Holah) ◦ ◦ Psychology teachers share resources with each other:  Many generous teachers who are willing to share their handouts, Powerpoints, quizzes, videos and other resources.

 Both resources are excellent and valuable  However, they are more interested ◦ in providing the resources for national needs and for English speaking instructors  Discipline-specific associations and institutions developing their own resources, such as Social Psychology Network, etc., see more on InterTOP  InterTOP serves a networking function

 Growing interest and initiatives to internationalize psychology education among several national and international organizations.  The sources of information are still very scattered and not easy to access.  Interest to be informed about current state in this field around the world.  This was the purpose of development of InterTOP website: ◦ Resource on the teaching of psychology from international perspective (

InterTOP network as a resource of information about internationalization of psychology education:  an informal network of scholars, instructors, educational leaders from around the world;  intended to facilitate the international exchange of information, experience, and ideas;  at all levels of education (pre-degree, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate), from different educational settings (schools, colleges, institutes, universities, and professional schools);  provide opportunities to discover different resources available throughout the world for teaching and training in psychology.

 1. National and international conferences related to psychology teaching  2. National and international organizations related to the teaching of psychology  3. Publications on international aspects of psychology teaching  4. Resources for psychology teachers and students  5. Information on internationalization of psychology

 Journals on the teaching of psychology  Discussion lists related to the teaching of psychology  Teaching Tips  General Teaching Psychology Resources  Introductory Psychology Teaching Resources  Social Psychology Teaching Resources  Developmental Psychology Teaching Resources  Personality Teaching Resources  Cognitive Psychology Teaching Resources  Abnormal and Clinical Psychology Teaching Resources  Emotion teaching resources  Teaching Humor resources  Educational Psychology Teaching Resource  Economic Psychology Teaching Resources

 InterTOP website as a cross-national and cross-disciplinary navigation instrument for psychology instructors around the world.  National coordinators providing sources of information and teaching resources from many countries  InterTOP website as a Wiki resource, where national coordinators from different countries submit their national resources  Development of multilingual parallel versions of InterTOP  Development of InterTOP own teaching resources in psychology  Glossary of educational terminology (multilingual): ◦ Educational institutions: university, college, school, undergraduate, graduate, etc. ◦ Syllabus, classes, courses, etc.  International (multilingual) dictionary of psychological concepts, theories, research, and best practices  Video resources with subtitles posted at the InterTOP web site ◦ Creating multilingual subtitles

 Making the psychology teaching resources from different countries available online International teaching resources major concepts, theories, research findings in psychology disciplines teaching activities exercises videos examples International textbooks published online modular electronic