AP Seminars

A. Payment by check

Checks should be made payable to AP Seminars Silicon Valley

2625 Swanson Way

Mountain View, CA 94040

So that we can correctly match payments to registrations, all mailed payments should be accompanied the Invoice/Transmittal Form. This form is not a registration form and does not substitute for the participant having filled out the Online Registration Form.

B. Payment by credit card (VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express).

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Use the PayPal button below. Since the PayPal submission will have the district identifying information on it, please follow up your payment by notifying AP Seminars of the teacher for whom the payment is being made. The easiest way to do this is by email to apseminars@comcast.net

Questions?: Contact Duane Hinders at 650-964-3082 or at apseminars@comcast.net.

AP* Art History

AP Seminars Silicon Valley Summer Institute 2016

Agenda for Pedagogy, Content, and Organization in a flexible presentation

1. Introductions:

• Who are we and what do we hope to gain from this week?

• Reflections on the new course: What just hit me?

2. AP Courses: rigor, empowerment, and future success for our students—

• Equity and Access,

• Promoting your course

3. Assignment for Day 4: Deepening understanding of the Indigenous Americas

4. Overviews: The Curriculum Framework & the class

• Depth vs. Breadth—facilitating skills and deep understanding

•Big Ideas & Essential questions
•Learning Objectives—what students do

•3 kinds of analysis—Formal, Contextual, Comparative

•The Image Set:

• Essential Knowledge and Enduring Understanding

• The content areas & percentages

• Using works outside the list

5. Nuts and Bolts—How do I start the year?

6. The AP test:

• The AP Art History Reading

• What did students bomb?

• Goodbye to the legacy Test

• The test: MCQ’s, FRQ’s, long essays

• APAH Practice Exam & sample questions

• Analyzing and writing new MCQ’s

• Analyzing and writing new FRQ’s

7. Structuring the class: Strategies for success

• Connecting works with Themes

• Vocabulary, Note-taking, & Organizers

• Reading assignments, Flipping the classroom

• Unit Tests—MCQ, essay, identification

• Developing Writing skills

• Student Research—Teach methodology!

• Preparing students for the Exam:

• Review, Themes/works, essay topics, and Timelines

8. Powerful Teaching: Engaging Students with Exciting Pedagogy

• Designing & Projecting Powerful Presentations: PPT

• How to ask good questions—practice with a work you know.

• Making Art History fun: Projects to engage student interest.

• Best Practices

• Work on individual Presentations

9. Syllabus Design, Sample Syllabi & Pacing Guides

• Syllabus Design & approval

• Planning a daily scheme of work

• Pacing the Year: 3 guides

10. Resources for teachers and students

• Advances through AP* & Online Community

• College Board Materials

• Using Technology

• Bibliography & websites

• Video/DVD/You Tube

•The Art Store Data base

11. Choosing a text: What makes one text better than another?

--content, context, media and techniques

• Gardner’s Art Through The Ages

• Marilyn Stokstad’s Art (online)

• Gateways to Art

• Exploring Art: A Global Perspective

• Laurie Schneider Adams: Art Across Time

1 2. Making Museum Visits Valuable: Successful Visits & Prompts

13. Post AP* test: Ideas for fun and learning

14. Final Day Presentations

15: Summing up, Evaluations and Goodbyes

Description of AP English Language Workshop

This workshop is designed for AP English Language and Composition teachers and will focus on methods for teaching synthesis, argument, and analysis of texts and visuals. Participants will work individually and in groups with AP multiple choice questions, free response essays, rhetorical analysis and non-fiction texts. From the session, participants will be able to create or enhance an AP Language Syllabus. We will also discuss the relationship of our AP* course to AP English Literature. A major focus will the new College Board resources and recent changes to the AP English Language and Composition Exam.

Technology

If you have a computer or tablet, please bring it. Although having technology access in the classroom is not required, past participants have stated that it is helpful. You will have access to a computer lab, and our class will have one session in the lab for exploring electronic resources on a provided flash drive.

Please read and bring The Lost City of the Monkey God and two editorials by your favorite journalist.

Proposed Syllabus

DAY 1

• Goals of Workshop, Introduction of Participants

• Course and Exam Description Binder

Binder Components:

The Course Skills chart

The Course at a Glance page

A Unit at a Glance page

A walk through of the first unit

The “Teaching the Course Skills” section of the “Instructional Approaches” tab

The Exam information

• College Board Equity Policy

• Overview of AP English Language and Composition Exam

Past five prompts

• Changes to AP English Language and Composition Exam for 2019

• New Instructional Resources (Opening August 1)

• Strategies for Developing Critical Thinkers

• Multiple-Choice Strategies, Group Analysis of Question Types

• Close Reading Strategies

• Introduction to Analysis/Analysis Menu

• Say/Does Analysis

• Holistic Scoring, 2018 Question 2, Rhetorical Analysis

• UBD Lesson Planning (Model: “Tomatoland”)

(Complete Lesson Development in evening)

Day 2

• Sharing of Lesson Plans

• Discussion of Writing Assignments (Creative, On Demand, Analysis, Research)

• Composition Tips, Diagnostic Portfolio, New College Board Scoring Guide and AP composition expectations

• New Six-Point Rubric

• Lego Activity

• Complete Discussion of 2018 Question 2, Rhetorical Analysis

• Strategies for Teaching Satire/Horatian or Juvenalian

• Group Work: Analyze Rhetorical Devices in a JFK Speech

• Lab Assignment: Enhance Classroom Instruction (Selecting Lessons/Resources for Your Classroom

Day 3

• Sharing of Lab Assignment

• Holistic Scoring, 2018 Question 3, Argument

• Strategies for Teaching Argumentation (Sharing of Editorials)

• Research Strategies

• Personal Progress Checks (New Resource)

• Discussion of The Lost City of the Monkey God and The Library Book

• Discussion of Handling the Paper Load

• Fall Registration Overview

Day 4

• 2018 Question 1, Synthesis Holistic Scoring

• Strategies for Teaching Synthesis

• Visual Rhetoric Resources and Strategies

• Work on Creating a New Lesson or Revising Syllabus

• Reflections and Seminar Evaluation

Palo Alto High School

50 Embarcadero Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Registrations accepted beginning on January 1, 2022

AP* Seminars Silicon Valley 2024 APSI

(Choose your event from below, then proceed to the General Information Section below. Note that clicking on a course name will link you to that session's page.)

Week 1 Online: July 15-19, 2024

Biology

Computer Science Principles

European History

French Language & Culture

Spanish Language & Culture

US Government & Politics

Registration Website for Week 1

Week 2 In person: July 22-25, 2024

(Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA)

Art and Design
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Chinese Language & Culture

Computer Science A

Economics (Micro & Macro combined)
English Language & Composition
English Literature & Composition
Environmental Science

Physics 1

Precalculus

Psychology

Spanish Literatiure and Culture

Statistics
U.S. History
World History: Modern

Registration Website for Week 2

NOTE

Sections must have a minimum of eight (8) paid participants to guarantee that they will be offered. Cancellations by AP Seminarswill be made at least 30 days prior to the scheduled start of the session.

For additional information, contact Duane Hinders

Duane@apseminars.com or (650) 964-3082

DAILY SCHEDULE click Here

Welcome to AP Seminars Silicon Valley 2024. We will offer two events, one online and one in-person (in the heart of Silicon Valley). Please see the boxes below for our offerings. Please contact Duane if you have any questions. We are now accepting registrations.

Duane, Normajean, and AP Seminars Mascot Pippa

GENERAL INFORMATION

Outstanding College Board* endorsed presenters will provide teachers in the Advanced Placement Program* with the skills and materials you need to successfully teach AP*. These courses are appropriate for both new and experienced teachers. This will be the twenty-first year these seminars have been taught at Stanford, Palo Alto High School, and online.

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The process for joining us in 2024 is:

STEP 1: Read this page (after selecting your course from one of the boxes above)

STEP 2: Read the Fees/Registration page for full details about fee options (including college credit) and the registration process.

STEP 3: Proceed to the Registration Website for Event 1: Week 1 Online

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WE ARE ...

a family-owned and operated, not an institutional program. For 21 years, veteran high school educators, Duane and Normajean Hinders have been bringing their professional and personal touch to this unique APSI, growing us from just a few subjects to twenty-four. Duane devoted many years as an AP reader and presenter in both Calculus and Statistics, helping to pioneer the addition of AP Statistics.

Years of treating our AP Seminars team like a family of professionals has inspired loyalty from staff and presenters alike. We eagerly anticipate working together each summer, and it shows! Participating teachers enjoy the results of a highly professional team who really like each other.

Come and join us this summer!