"We are pleased to recommend this book as a meaningful addition to instructors' resource libraries. The activities presented are clearly suitable for introductory and advanced courses. Moreover, the suggested readings and an appendix that delineates teaching organizations and related conferences provide numerous opportunities for professional development.„ (PsycCRITIQUES, March 2009)“No course is more important to our discipline than theintroductory psychology class. Sandra Goss Lucas, the coordinatorfor Introductory Psychology at the University of Illinois, bringstogether the collective wisdom of her years of experience inteaching and teacher training to deliver a wonderfully useful book. If department heads want to evidence a genuine commitment toteaching, they should give this book to all faculty and graduatestudents involved in the teaching of this course. It is a treasurehouse of good ideas from a great teacher.„
-Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., Texas A& M University
“Sandra Goss Lucas's book, A Guide to Teaching IntroductoryPsychology will be invaluable for those teaching intro psychfor the first time, and even old codgers who have taught intropsych more than 50 times will find new useful and interestingideas. My copy has 'Good', 'Neat' and other laudatory comments onthe margins of many pages.„
-W. J. McKeachie, University of Michigan
“Sandy Goss Lucas offers instructors of IntroductoryPsychology a fully-equipped, functional toolbox, filled withspecific, concrete details that can immediately be applied inteaching. This toolbox will be most helpful to instructors teachingthe course for the first time, who will undoubtedly breathe a sighof relief when they realize that, far from being alone andisolated, they are part of large group of people who readily sharetheir approaches, innovations, practices, and challenges. Seasonedinstructors will also find much in this book that will be valuableto them, because the advice offered by Goss Lucas, the selection oftopics, and her concrete suggestions are all deeply informed byclassroom experience--she knows what works and what does not."
-Robert W. Hendersen, Professor & Chair, Psychology, Grand Valley State University