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Fees Fees include workshop, course materials, breakfast, lunch and parking.

Advanced Placement Program® Summer Institute workshops: $750 per person for early registration received by June 3 and $800 per person for registration received after June 3.

Each AP® workshop is approved for two semester units of academic credit. The unit fee is an additional $130 and is payable at the first class meeting. Pre-AP® subjects are approved forthree CEUs; an additional fee of $65 applies.

For AP® Biology, Chemistry, Physics 1 and Studio Art, a $50 lab fee also applies.

Employer Paid Fees If your employer is paying your fees, pleasecomplete and submit the registration agree-ment form found at the back of this pamphlet.This completed form must be returned to theCollege of Continuing Education in order tocomplete your enrollment.

Registration If you are paying your own fees, please registerby calling 916.278.4433, option 2.

Registration Confirmation A Sacramento State map, driving directions and parking permit will be emailed to you prior to the start of the program. Please use your home email address when registering to ensure delivery of your information packet in June.

Refund Policy A full refund, minus a $25 processing fee, will be issued for cancellations received in writing by June 13, 2016. After June 13, substitutions canbe made but refunds will not be issued.

Accessibility The College of Continuing Education wouldlike to ensure that all participants enjoy their learning experience. Please call Angela Haferat 916.278.4297 or email [email protected] by June 13, 2016, to alert us of any restrictionsor special needs.

Attendance Attendance at all sessions is mandatory toearn credit (where applicable) and a certificateof completion. Workshops are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The session lengthof 30 hours is mandated by the College Board®.

Clothing and Climate Please dress comfortably and casually for all workshops. Air-conditioned classrooms maybe chilly so a sweater is recommended.

Location All AP® and Pre-AP® workshops will be heldon the Sacramento State campus.

Meals Meal tickets will be provided for both breakfast and lunch each day. The tickets can be used atall campus eateries, and both are included inyour registration fee.

Participants are responsible for their own dinner arrangements. A variety of restaurants located near Sacramento State offer a wide range of menus and prices.

Housing Special arrangements have been made with the Larkspur Landing hotel about one mile from campus. Please contact the hotel at 916.646.1212 and mention the AP® Summer Program. You must reserve by June 12, 2016 as only a limited number of rooms are available. Rates range from $109 per night to $149 per night. For other options, there are hotels available near the campus and throughout the Sacramento area.

For those interested in staying on campus a completed housing application must be submitted to the Housing and Residential Life office. This form is available on our website at www.cce.csus.edu/ap. See application for more information including pricing.

Workshop Cancellation Policy The College of Continuing Education makes every effort to maintain the published workshop schedule. If a workshop is cancelled, participants will be able to enroll in another workshop or receive a full refund.

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Advanced Placement Program® Summer Institute workshops provide an opportunity for teachers to enhance their AP® curriculum, understand the AP® exam structures and develop strategies for teaching both content and analytical skills.

Advanced Placement Program®W o r k s h o p s

ContentsAP® Biology ............................................................ 4

AP® Calculus AB ...................................................... 5

AP® Chemistry ........................................................ 6

AP® English Language (New Teachers) ................... 7

AP® English Language (Experienced Teachers) ...... 8

AP® English Literature (New Teachers) ................... 9

AP® English Literature (Experienced Teachers)....... 10

AP® European History ............................................ 11

AP® Government and Politics ................................ 12

AP® Physics 1 .......................................................... 13

AP® Psychology ...................................................... 14

AP® Spanish Language .......................................... 15

AP® Statistics .......................................................... 16

AP® Studio Art ........................................................ 17

AP® U.S. History (New Teachers) ............................. 18

AP® U.S. History (Experienced Teachers) ................. 19

AP® World History .................................................. 20

Pre-AP® English ...................................................... 21


AP® Biology is a challenging course designed to be the equivalent of a college biology course. AP® Biology will include topics regularly covered in a college course for majors. This workshop concentrates on the newly revised curriculum, which includes: the four big ideas, learning objectives and science practices. We will also examine the shift to inquiry approach laboratory exercises and focus on how to set-up, demonstrate and perform most of the new AP® Biology labs that are recommended by the College Board®. We will demonstrate concentration of the grading procedures for the AP® Biology exam and organize and prepare for the course and course syllabus audit. In addition, we will incorporate resources for preparing class activitiesand lectures.

AP® BiologyCourse Code: EDU 669Q

Instructor: Melissa Cuellar

Melissa Cuellar has her bachelor’s degree in biology from Texas A&M International University. She currently teaches at JB Alexander High School in Laredo, Texas and has over 19 years of teaching experience in AP® Biology, general biology and Honors Biology. She is a College Board® consultant who has taught one-day and weeklong workshops since 2010. Currently, she is an AP® Biology reader and serves on the SAT Biology development committee as well as the AP® Biology development committee for College Board®.


AP® Calculus ABCourse Code: EDU 669Z

This workshop provides teachers with the tools they need to implement an effective AP® Calculus AB course. During this training, teachers will explore the mathematical practices for AP® Calculus (MPACs) and the components of the curriculum framework, including the big ideas, enduring understandings, learning objectives and essential knowledge. Participants will understand how to use activities that organize the course content to develop students’ proficiencies in the skills identified by the curriculum framework. In addition, participants will work on a course plan that will help them decide how they will teach the skills and content of the AP® Calculus AB course.

Topics include:

• content and skills for AP® Exam success

• characteristics of a “calculus-based”

justification for free response questions

• an instructional plan that builds understanding and incorporates mathematical practices

• instructional strategies to develop mathematical communication skills

• curricular requirements and AP® course audit options

Instructor: David Platt, Ph.D.

Dr. David Platt has been a full-time community college mathematics faculty member since 1990, most recently at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has served as an AP® Calculus exam reader or table leader since 2000 and as a certified College Board® consultant since 2002. He has presented numerous AP® Calculus AB workshops and AP® Summer Institutes throughout the western United States.


AP® ChemistryCourse Code: EDU 669S

Both new and experienced AP® Chemistry teachers will gain an understanding ofthe curriculum and exam. Teachers can use the workshop to organize their course forthe first time or make modifications to an existing course.

Topics include:

• hands-on labs and demonstrations for classroom use

• establishing an AP® lab program for new teachers

• planning an AP® Chemistry calendar and sticking to it

• curriculum revisions as needed

• inquiry in the AP® Chemistry classroom and discussion of the inquiry lab manual

• revising current labs to fit the inquiry model

• one major topic from the AP® curriculum addressed each day with relevant labs and demonstrations

• sample AP® test questions and exam preparation for students

• a thorough review of the 2016 AP® Chemistry exam including scoring, statistics and commentary

Teachers should bring the following: a scientific calculator; the 2016 AP® Chemistry exam with all problems attempted; safety glasses and lab apron (if available) and lab appropriate attire; AP® Chemistry textbook (if available); laptop (if available); hard or soft copies of a favorite AP® Chemistry lab, lesson, handout, worksheet or demonstration to share and discuss or modify; hard or soft copies of any traditional lab(s) you would like to see converted to an inquiry exercise; and a syllabus/course outline.

Instructor: Ken Porush, M.Ed.

Ken Porush has taught AP® Chemistry at Los Gatos High School near San Jose, California since 2000 and previously taught AP® Chemistry and physics at Abraham Lincoln High School in San Jose. He has served as a reader for the AP® Chemistry exam and as a workshop consultant for the College Board® since 2002. Mr. Porush has been a reader for the Praxis exam and worked on the 2003 ACS High School Test Development Committee. He is returning for his fifth AP® Chemistry Summer Institute at Sacramento State.


ChemistryCourse Code: EDU 669S

AP® English LanguageNew Teachers

Course Code: EDU 669U 01

Instructor: Patricia Gaggiani, M.A.

Patricia Gaggiani is returning for her sixth AP® Summer Institute at Sacramento State. She has been an AP® English Language and Composition Exam reader and has conducted one-day and weeklong workshops in both AP® Composition and English Vertical Teams since 2001. For more than 30 years she taught English at all levels, and she developed the AP® English Language and Composition course for her school, which she taught for 16 years.

She served as director of the writing center at George Washington High School, where she worked on curriculum development with teachers and tutored students for 10 years. She retired in 2011.

Teachers new to AP® English Language & Composition will benefit from this workshop. We will examine some of the basics of important elements of the AP English Language & Composition curriculum including: argumentation and persuasive essay writing, prose analysis and analysis writing, assisting students with pre-20th century prose, researched writing and source analysis, and using visual sources in persuasion. The course will use focus materials provided by the College Board® including samples from the current exam.

Topics include:

• the current Curriculum Module from the College Board® on Definitions of Argument

• what should be included in the AP® English Language curriculum

• “nuts and bolts” pedagogical approaches to developing individual exercises

Teachers should bring a copy of any text they plan to use for this class, as well as a successful lesson or approach to share and copies of the current 2016 exam questions.


AP® English LanguageExperienced Teachers

Course Code: EDU 669U 02

Instructor: Christopher Baldwin, M.A.

Christopher Baldwin has taught in the San Diego Unified School District for more than 35 years including AP® classes in English Literature, English Language and Composition, U.S. Government, U.S. History, and he is currently teaching an online AP® English course in China. He has taught for the College Board® since 1993 and conducted one-day and weeklong workshops in several states including California. He was a table leader for the 2015 AP® English Language and Composition exam and served as a reader, table leader and question leader in scoring the exam. Mr. Baldwin trains high school teachers and college instructors in scoring and evaluating student compositions and has consulted with the Measuring Effective Teaching research project funded by the Gates Foundation.

Experienced teachers of AP® English Language will gain information and insights from the 2016 exam. We’ll discuss tools (past prompts, texts, fiction and non-fiction) that are useful in developing critical thinking and composition skills and learn how to give effective feedback in a timely manner. Questions and group discussions will drive the workshop’s content and topics.

Topics include:

• technological innovations that enhance the course

• effective methods in teaching rhetorical analysis, argument and synthesis skills

• strategies to develop multiple choice and timed writing skills


AP® English LiteratureNew Teachers

Course Code: EDU 669X 01

Instructor: Judith Nevil

Judith Nevil has taught English at both the high school and college levels for 31 years. She has 23 years of experience teaching both AP® English Literature and AP® English Language courses, and has been an AP® reader for eight years and a Texas AP® Advocate for two years. Currently she teaches and serves as AP® chair at Irving High School in Irving, Texas, where she has taught for the past 25 years. In 2011, the Irving Independent School District honored her as Secondary Teacher of the Year. Judith holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Gifted and Talented state certification and endorsement from the University of North Texas.

This four-day workshop will provide an overview of the AP® Literature and Composition class based on College Board® guidelines and objectives with an emphasis on strategies for reading and analyzing fictional texts through oral discussions and written responses. Using contemporary and classic texts, participants will explore instructional strategies and assessments. They will examine course and syllabi design, the AP exam, imaginative literature and effective writing strategies. Participants will explore literary theories as an approach to reading literature, develop a thematic unit and participate in engaging activities. They will compare various genres, literary themes and author techniques with an emphasis on ways to help students effectively incorporate such strategies in their approach to interpreting and evaluating literature. Throughout the institute, the focus will be less about what to teach and more about how to teach students to read, analyze and write effectively, confidently and independently.


AP® English LiteratureExperienced Teachers

Course Code: EDU 669X 02

Instructor: David Sullivan, M.A.

David Sullivan is a veteran teacher with more than 25 years of experience in both the Acalanes and San Mateo Union High School Districts and at Chabot College in Hayward, California. He has been a College Board® consultant for more than 10 years and served as a reader for the AP® English Literature exam. In addition to AP® English Literature, he has taught AP® English Language and AP® U.S. History.

Experienced teachers of AP® English Literature will hold in-depth discussions on novels, plays and poetry that expose students to the best in American and world literature. This workshop will cover curriculum, methods of teaching composition, grading and techniquesto improve scores on the AP® EnglishLiterature exam.

Topics include:

• syllabus approval

• equity and access

• vertical articulation

• time management for instructors

• effective use of projects and group work

Teachers will need to read and bringa copy of Graham Greene’s “The Powerand the Glory.”


AP® European HistoryCourse Code: EDU 669L

Both experienced and new teachers of AP® European History will benefit from this workshop. We’ll cover the new curricular, thematic and skill components that took effect in the 2015-2016 school year. We’ll examine ways to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the content, skills and materials in AP® European History. Participants will receive resources to meet the new course and exam requirements.

Topics include:

• basic elements involved with teaching the course

• content and structure of the new exam

• strategies for maximizing student scores

• sample questions provided by the College Board®

• rubrics to analyze the new exam

Teachers should bring textbooks and any supplemental materials used in the classroom. Bringing a laptop is not necessary, but could be useful, as the instructor will provide many materials on Google Drive. Collaboration with other participants throughout the week is also encouraged.

Instructor: Susan Gerard, M.A.

Susan Gerard chairs the History Department at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Washington and has taught AP® European History for 31 years. She is a reader of the AP® European History exam as well as a table leader and sample selector. Ms. Gerard has written curriculum modules for the College Board®, teacher’s manuals and review guides for several publishers. She received the Spokane Public Schools Distinguished Teacher Award in 2004 and is a National Board certified teacher.


AP® Governmentand Politics

Course Code: EDU 669V

Instructor: Jerry Morris

Jerry Morris has taught for 40 years and is currently teaching AP® American Government and Politics at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington. He has conducted AP® workshops in California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Utah and Texas and served as a reader and table leader. He was selected to be the AP® American Government and Politics presenter at the national AP® conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Learn how to teach a complete course inAP® American Government and Politics.We will demonstrate and discuss both yearlong and semester models. Teachers will receive materials, worksheets, writing assignments, simulations, activities and previous tests with scoring rubrics. Publishers may also provide textbook and reader samples. Teachers should be prepared to actively engage in the workshop.

Topics include:

• how to maximize student scores on the AP® exam

• strategies and previous tests

Teachers should bring one or two sample lessons that have been successful or lessons they would like to further develop with 20 copies to share. Please bring a laptop, if possible, and a flash drive to copy products developed during the workshop.


AP® Physics 1Course Code: EDU 669M

Instructor: Connie Wells, M.S.

Ms. Connie Wells has been an AP® Physics teacher since 1991 and currently teaches AP® Physics 2 and AP® Physics C at Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri. She has been active in test scoring and development for the College Board® as a member of the AP® Physics Test Development Committee and served as a reader, table leader and question leader for the AP® Physics reading. She has presented workshops in the U.S., Northern Mariana Islands, Columbia, Thailand, Macedonia, China, Japan and Taiwan.

Ms. Wells was a regional winner of the 2003-2004 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement® Teaching sponsored by the College Board® and The Siemens Foundation. She has served as chair of the Committee on Teacher Preparation for the American Association of Physics Teachers, co-chair of the AP® Physics 2 Test Development Committee and co-chair of the Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee for AP® Physics 1 and 2. She is also a member of the AP® Physics Redesign Commission.

The majority of this workshop will cover AP® Physics 1 content. Participants in the Summer Institute will have the opportunity to meet and learn from others who are developing Advanced Placement® Physics programs in their schools. Current and aspiring AP® Physics teachers will strengthen their knowledge of the subject, become familiar with the AP® Physics 1 and AP® Physics 2 program and its changing scope and sequence, and develop laboratory and demonstration materials for their classrooms. They will come away from the institute with many materials, including the College Board AP® Physics packet, tests and solutions from past years, sample course syllabi and solutions to the 2016 exams. We will spend time working on problem solving techniques and discussing approaches to teaching AP® Physics—including the role of vertical teaming, development of a course syllabus, and designing labs and assessments that address higher order thinking skills.

Topics include:

• inquiry-based laboratory design required by the new AP® Physics 1 and AP® Physics 2 courses and increasingly emphasized by the AP® Physics C courses

• lab work from a variety of options for both AP® Physics 1 and AP® Physics 2 that best fit the teacher’s course needs

• guidance in preparing and filing the course audit for new AP® teachers

Participants should bring a calculator, notebook and a few optional items such as a laptop or tablet, handout or favorite demonstration to share and simple tools


AP® PsychologyCourse Code: EDU 668C

Instructor: Amy Jones

Amy Jones has more than 20 years of teaching experience and taught AP® Psychology at Copper Hills High School in South Jordan, Utah. She has been an AP® consultant for the College Board® and an AP® Psychology exam reader. She was nominated twice for the Disney Teacher of the Year Award.

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This course offers strategies for presenting the main topics of psychology as well as methods used to study psychology. Participants will explore techniques geared toward teaching a college-level psychology course to high school students and tips on preparing students for the AP® Psychology exam including multiple-choice and free response questions. Materials published by the College Board® will be part of the course reading. Participants will have the opportunity to share best practices with other new and continuing AP® Psychology teachers. We will provide tips on textbook selection, source books, audiovisuals and web-based sources, as well as additional resources for the participants. Each participant will be expected to design a lesson, activity or unit based on the AP® Psychology curriculum.

Teachers should bring a 128 MB flash driveor a laptop.


AP® Spanish LanguageCourse Code: EDU 669W

Instructor: Sandra Maciel Franco, M.A.

Sandra Franco is a retired Spanish teacher and Modern Languages Department chair, formerly at University High School in Tucson, Arizona. She has taught for more than 30 years at the elementary, high school and college levels. She taught AP® Spanish Language for 21 years and AP® Spanish Literature for 18 years and is currently a consultant for the College Board®. She has earned numerous awards including the National Society of High School Scholars’ Outstanding Achievement and Excellence in Teaching Award in 2004 and the College Board’s® Exemplary AP® Teacher Award in 2006. She is currently a consultant for the College Board®.

This workshop will cover the structureof the AP® Spanish Language and Culture course and exam including culture, authentic materials, theme based instruction and the three modes of communication — interpretive, interpersonal and presentational. We will discuss the curriculum and successful strategies to teach classes of all sizes, as well as native and non-native speakers. Teachers are expected to actively participate in the workshop and share best practices with the entire group.

Topics include:

• creative strategies and techniques

• review of textbooks, the internet and authentic materials

• student skills that need to be reinforced on a regular basis

• analyzing and reviewing sample tests

Teachers should bring the titles of textbooks and supplementary materials used in class, a lesson or activity that has worked well for you and a pencil(s) for a class activity.


AP® StatisticsCourse Code: EDU 669J

AP® Statistics teachers will gain insights into the material and learn techniques for teaching the most challenging concepts. Teachers will review recent exam questions, analyze common student misunderstandings and misconceptions, and get a better understanding of the expectations and emphases of an AP® Statistics course. The workshop will be flexible to allow for discussion and collaboration. Daily hands-on classroom activities will be used as well as collegial sharing throughout the week. Each participant is encouraged to bring 30copies of their favorite activity to share. Please also bring your current textbookand a handheld graphing device.

Topics include:

• exploratory data analysis

• data collection

• probability

• statistical inference

Instructor: Robin Levine-Wissing, M.A.

Robin Levine-Wissing is a probability and statistics instructor for the University of California, Riverside Extension program. She was the instructional supervisor for mathematics at Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois prior to retiring last June. A mathematics educator for 38 years, Ms. Levine-Wissing has taught AP® Statistics since the course began in 1997. She has conducted one-day and weeklong workshops and served as a reader and table leader since 2000. Ms. Levine-Wissing has co-authored professional journal articles and “AP® Statistics All Access” published by REA. She has been a Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) instructor since 1992, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching in 1993, was honored as a Tandy Technology Scholar in 1998 and was Teacher of the Year in Clark County, Nevada in 1996.


AP® Studio ArtCourse Code: EDU 669Ih

Instructor: Douglas Allen, M.A.

Douglas Allen has been teaching AP® Studio Art classes for over 25 years and is currently a studio art instructor at Brigham Young University (BYU). At BYU he also organizes professional development for teachers in a five school district, university-public school partnership. He has been in this position for three years and before that was the fine arts consultant (K-12) for six years for 78,000 students in Jordan School District. He began his career teaching art at a high school in Australia and then at a high school near Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been working with the College Board® as an exam reader and consultant for the past 10 years and has led one-day workshops and five-day institutes nationally. Besides being an educator, Mr. Allen is also an accomplished artist and has many commissions for his paintings.

Participants in this workshop will look at and explore the three major concerns that are constant in the teaching of art: quality, concentration and breadth. The course is designed to assist high school teachers of AP® Studio Art in planning their lessons and preparing their students to successfully develop their portfolios in 2-D design, 3-D design and drawing. We will look at the rubrics for each section of the three portfolios and at the end of the week, teachers will be more effective in evaluating their students’ work and assisting them to achieve higher AP® scores. Time will be provided to share information and network. Museum experience will provide curriculum ideas and add strategies to enhancing student artwork. Teachers should bring any art supplies they would like to use (paint sets, markers, etc.).


AP® U.S. HistoryNew Teachers

Course Code: EDU 669Y 01

Instructor: Matthew Ellington

Matthew Ellington has been an AP® U.S. History instructor for the last 20 years. Since 2000, he has been an exam reader and has led numerous AP® and Pre-AP® workshops across the country. He is currently involved in assisting the College Board® with improving their training and support of workshop consultants. He is the lead author of

“The U.S. History Teacher’s Survival Guide for the New AP® Course” and isa contributor to the annotated teacher’s edition of “America’s History Eighth Edition.” Mr. Ellington also Appears in

“Teaching Ideas for AP® History: A Video Resource,” and has authored a test bank for an earlier version of “America’s History.”

This course provides an overview of the AP® U.S. History class and examination for teachers new to AP® U.S. History. The main focus will be on the redesigned curriculum which emphasizes depth over breadth, the historical thinking skills embedded in the course and preparing students for the AP® U.S. History exam. We will also explore instructional methods, reading and writing assignments, classroom activities and teacher resources. Teachers will have time to reflect on what they have learned, network with colleagues and begin creating their own syllabi and lessons.

Topics include:

• historical thinking skills and the AP® U.S. History course

• developing student understanding

• understanding the curriculum framework

• planning your course

• analyzing primary sources/content and sourcing

• analyzing secondary sources/interpretation

• making connections

• chronological reasoning• creating and supporting a historical argument

• selecting resources to support teaching AP® U.S. History

• strategies for teaching AP® U.S. History

• unit development

• assessing student understanding

• curricular requirements and syllabus development


AP® U.S. HistoryExperienced Teachers

Course Code: EDU 669Y 02

Instructor: Karl Johnson, M.A.

Karl Johnson has been expandingthe minds of young historians for30 years in the Paradise Valley Unified School District in Phoenix, Arizona. He has taught both middle school and high school, but for the past 15 years has been teaching AP® USH at Pinnacle High School along with AP® U.S. Government and AP® Macroeconomics. Karl also writes curriculum for his district’s online high school, pvOnline, and he teaches several different classes online for PVUSD. In addition to his teaching duties at Pinnacle, he is an AP® table leader for the U.S. History exam and conducts workshops for the College Board® and Summer Institutes across the United States. His goal is to provide workshop participants with effective tools, strategies and confidence to provide their students with the best chance possible to pass the AP® U.S. exam.

This four-day Summer Institute will immerse participants in a wide range of study and skill-building to help students achieve a passing score on the AP® Exam. With the second year of the redesign under our collective APUSH belts, this workshop will depend on collaboration and sharing of the participants as well as the expertise of the presenter, to discover what went well over the past year and find ways to make next year better for teachers and students alike.

Each day of the first three days will be devoted to specific portions of the AP® U.S. exam: the multiple choice, the short answer and the essays (long and DBQ). The final day will be devoted to ways teachers can incorporate technology in the classroom and share best practices with each other.

Interspersed throughout the four days will be both low-tech and high-tech mini-lessons to engage the multiple intelligences of our young historians. Participants will learn how to effectively utilize cell phones as part of instruction, create online quizzes, create student blogs, build interactive notebooks and much more.

The goal of this workshop is for you to leave with more tools and ideas than you thought possible and to form a collective professional learning community that will benefit both you and your students.

Please bring a laptop or tablet for interactive web activities, a personal Gmail account for using Google Docs and share a good lesson. You don’t need to bring handouts — just be prepared to talk about what you do. If you have docs in the cloud to share, that would be awesome!


AP® World HistoryCourse Code: EDU 669R

Instructor: Bill Strickland

Bill Strickland teaches at East Grand Rapids High school in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has served as a reader, table leader and sample selector for AP® World History since 2004, and has led numerous AP® World History workshops and Summer Institutes. He also served on the Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee that defined the redesigned AP® World History course that took effect in 2012.

This course is designed for both new and experienced teachers. It will include perspectives, relevant teaching strategies, available resources and major themes connected with the teaching of an Advanced Placement® World History course. We will use materials from the 2012 exam to help you improve your students’ learning and exam scores. We will also help you develop an AP® World History syllabus for students and examine how the course changed in the 2011-12 academic year.

Topics Include:

• unique perspectives and major themes connected with any successful AP® World History course

• AP® World History’s sophisticated, analytical writing requirements

• instructional strategies that will help both the teacher and students manage the complexities of AP® World History

• the vast range of textual, visual and internet resources that enrich every aspect of the course

• the exchange of ideas through professional development including the varied opportunities provided by the College Board®

• a fundamental understanding of how the essay readings work

• the recent changes to the AP® World History course and exam (the instructor was a member of the committee that created these changes)

Participants will receive a thumb drive with approximately 6 GB of resources. Please bring a laptop with an additional ~6 GB of free hard disk space. You will also need to bring a 3-ring binder (preferably a 1-½” or2” D-ring).

Course NoteAP World History is about to undergo a significant change in 2016-17. The 2016 summer course will reflect these changes; New course description unavailable.


Pre-AP® EnglishCourse Code: EDU 603A

Instructor: Francie Teitelbaum, M.A.

Francie Teitelbaum taught AP® English Literature and Composition for 20 years and AP® English Language and Composition for five years. She retired from Monterey Trail High School in the Elk Grove Unified School District after 34 years of teaching. Ms. Teitelbaum has conducted a variety of workshops for AP® and Pre-AP® teachers, and served as a reader for the AP® English Language and AP® English Literature exams.

Middle school and high school English teachers will receive direction, models and training to prepare students for AP® and college-level work. The end result is the formation of vertical teams, composed of teachers from grades 6-12, to create a rigorous, comprehensive and coordinated English program. Teachers can adapt this final project to their individual school site.

Topics will include:

• the importance of vertical alignment

• ways to establish strong AP® English vertical teams

• strategies for close reading, essential questions and on-demand writing

Participants should bring one or two core works of literature and the textbook(s) used in your English class(es). Please also bringa laptop or tablet and a flash drive (at least2 GB).

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form, the College of Continuing Education considers the participant formally enrolled in the class.

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