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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

ART HISTORY

John Gunnin

johngunnin@gmail.com

John Gunnin has taught AP* Art History and AP* Studio Art at Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California for 20 years. He has served as the co-chair of the AP* Art History Development Committee for the College Board. He has also been a question leader for the AP* Art History exam reading. In addition, he has served on the College Board* Curriculum Revision Committee and is one of the authors of the first AP* Art History Curriculum Framework published in 2015. He was named the Orange County Arts Educator of the Year for 2007 and the Corona del Mar High School Teacher of the Year for 2009 and 2016.

APSI Art History with John Gunnin
Course Syllabus

Goal: Address Pedagogy, Content, and Organization to transform your class this coming year.

1. Introductions: Unpacking an artwork. Who are we and what we want. Overview

2. AP Courses: Equity and Access, Registration, Promoting your course

3. Presentation/activity assignment

4. Course Overview: Discussing Art: Get your feet wet!

• Basics of moving through the course
• The New Course and Exam Description
• Art Historical Thinking skills (8)
• Course Content: The Image Set (10 units)
• Essential Knowledge & Learning Objectives
• Practice: unpacking art works: depth and breadth
• AP Audit & AP Classroom overview

5. Meet the AP test:

• The new sample questions
• Analyzing and writing MCQ’s (recognizing types of questions)
• Adapting old questions to the new format
• APAH Practice Exam & new sample questions
• Analyzing and writing FRQ’s
• Scoring Practice for FRQ’s
•Review of the AP Art History Reading: What did students ace or bomb?

6. Starting the year

• Planning & recruiting
• Creating a calendar
• Communicating with students
• The first day & the first week

7. Strategies for teaching skills and content

• Instructional approaches and lesson planning
• Note-taking & Organizers
• Reading assignments, homework, flipping strategies
• Sample Unit Tests—MCQ, essay, identification
• Developing Writing skills
• Research methodology
• AP Classroom: Personal Progress Checks
• Reviewing for the Exam: Themes/works, essay topics, and Timelines

8. Powerful Teaching: Engaging Students with Exciting Pedagogy

• Designing & Projecting Powerful Presentations: PPT
• How to lead a discussion—practice with a work you know.
• Developing context
• 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
• Daily schemes of work for block & traditional schedule
• Pacing the Year: fill out your master calendar

10. Using the Museum Pre-assignments for Skills 5/6

11. Using Technology

12. Resources and Textbooks

13. Post AP test: Ideas for fun and learning

14. Final Presentations

15: Summing up, Evaluations and Goodbyes

Class Prep:

What to bring: Your current syllabus for AP Art History. A list of favorite resources for art history. Three best practices to share with other participants. A laptop computer if possible, plus a storage device.

What to read before the session: Be familiar with the current Couse and Exam description. Participants will be designing a presentation on one work of art during the session. Above all, prepare to have fun and learn a lot!