AP® Summer InStItute - Goucher College

Preparing Students for AP® Physics
AP 554.100
Patricia Zober
The goal of this course is to prepare teachers for the AP B Physics, AP C Mechanics,
and AP C Electricity & Magnetism courses and their exams. The course will emphasize
the AP Physics exams, their structure, and their grading; the laboratory experiences
in AP B and AP C Physics; the curriculum for each course; the exchange of ideas; and
special topic areas of concentration such as the Conservation of Mechanical Energy,
Momentum, Gravitation, Gauss’ Law, Ampere’s Law, Faraday’s Law, Fluids, Optics, and
Modern Physics.
Preparing Students for AP® Spanish Literature
and Culture
AP 563.100
rafael Moyano
In this course, participants will engage in a professional exchange of ideas surrounding
the revised AP Spanish Literature and Culture course. Participants will examine components
of the AP Curriculum Framework that includes learning objectives, descriptions
of expected student performance, the reading list, literary terms, and themes and
essential questions. Participants should be familiar with all of these texts prior to the
course. (For an accurate list, visit the College Board website at www.collegeboard.com).
Participants will discuss models of instructional design that use themes and essential
questions to make comparisons across literary periods and genres, and they will review
various authentic audio texts and artistic representations related to course content.
They also will examine sample questions for multiple choice and free response sections
of the exam. Participants are encouraged to bring their own texts or anthologies
containing the majority of these works. This course will be conducted in Spanish.
Preparing Students for AP® Statistics
AP 566.100
Jim Bohan
This course will focus in detail on the philosophy, content, and pedagogies related to
creating and implementing a successful course in AP Statistics. The sessions will engage
participants in the four main areas of AP Statistics: exploring data, sampling and
experimentation, anticipating patterns, and statistical inference. The approach will be
one of using actual AP Statistics problems to guide discussion of content and pedagogy.
In addition, the course will provide opportunities for discussion about topics such
as AP course goals, objectives, content, resources, bibliographies, and equipment; AP
exam development and grading processes; syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments; how
to refresh and improve existing AP courses; recent changes in AP course descriptions;
strategies for teaching students at beginning or intermediate levels; vertical teaming;
and the use of technology in AP Statistics.
Preparing Students for AP® World History—
New Teachers
AP 579.100
Ane Lintvedt
This course will engage participants in designing an AP World History course that
prepares their students for the AP exam. Participants will review the content, themes,
and structure of the AP World History curriculum and focus on effective teaching and
learning activities that will lead to success on the exam. An analysis of past AP exams
will be included, as well as discussion of rubrics and the scoring of the free-response
section of the examination. Participants will review important aspects of each time period
of the curriculum, plan their own course syllabus, discuss the teaching and learning
of the Historical Thinking Skills, and create test questions in alignment with the AP
World History periodization, the Historical Thinking Skills, and the course themes.
Pre-AP® English
AP 581.100
mary Ellen Ackerman
This interactive course will address the many aspects of creating and sustaining an
effective English vertical team. Collegial AP vertical teams are composed of middle
and high school teachers who collaborate and coordinate their efforts to form and
maintain a cohesive program. The team’s goal is to create successive, rigorous classes
that are inclusive so that all students have the opportunity to achieve success. The
team identifies explicit strategies that promote success at the various entry levels. This
course will include strategies for establishing effective vertical teams and for setting
and accomplishing goals. Teams will have time to work together to implement the
strategies presented.
Pre-AP® Science
AP 585.100
John Hnatow, Jr.
Student success in AP science courses is directly related to the strength of the Pre-AP
science program. The major goal of this course will be to help Pre-AP and AP-level
teachers clearly identify the skills and concepts necessary for students to succeed
in advanced classes. The AP curriculum framework and exams will be used as a
benchmark. Teaching strategies, curricular materials, and assessment methods will be
provided and discussed. Topics such as energy systems and inquiry-based labs will be
developed from foundation-level skills and concepts, intermediate concepts and will
culminate with advanced topics. Participants will perform actual lab activities, including
calculations with both statistical and graphical analysis. Throughout the workshop,
participants also will be exposed to applications of inquiry-based activities, calculator
use, demonstrations, Internet resources, and digital technologies. They will work in
pairs to solve and present problem sets from previous AP exams and to determine
which concepts are most appropriate. Participants also will be asked to share a favorite
annotated website that has been effectively used in the classroom, and they should be
prepared to share an experiment, teaching tip, demonstration, or lab activity.
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