Included herein is the conference proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2012 was: The value of an undergraduate degree in psychology: Why psychology--Why now?. The Conference featured a keynote address by Jane Halonen, Ph.D. of the University of West Florida. The talk was entitled: Can There Be Too Many Psychology Majors? Also highlighted was an invited address, Getting Published in the Teaching Literature: Wisdom, Sage Advice, and Helpful Hints, offered by Andrew Christopher, Ph.D., editor of the "Teaching of Psychology" journal. The Conference featured our 3rd Annual Student Research Poster Session with six undergraduate student poster presentations. Conference participants also had 24 workshops, discussions and oral presentations from which to choose and many colleagues, new and old, with whom to network. Ten of these proposals or presentations are included in the proceedings. Papers (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2011 proceedings, see ED521107.]