AP Seminars

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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

Palo Alto High School

50 Embarcadero Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94301

WORLD HISTORY: Modern

Anton Striegl

anton.striegl@ocsarts.net

Anton is passionate about teaching historical thinking and World History. He started his career in 1997 teaching AP U.S. and AP European history. Anton started teaching AP World History in its inaugural year, 2000-2001, and currently teaches both AP World and AP U.S. History at Orange County School of the Arts, in Santa Ana, California. Anton Striegl has been deeply involved in the AP World History community since 2001. Anton brings insight to his workshops from a wide variety of leadership experiences he has participated in, including being an Exam Leader, Question Leader, and Table Leader over the past 20 years. He has also participated in unique projects such as the standard setting, the pilot grading of the new exam in 2015/16, and a calibration meeting between all the history groups (World, Euro, and U.S.) to transition to the common rubrics. Anton has been a College Board Consultant since 2000 and has also taught credential classes at California State University Long Beach since 2002.

2024 World History: Modern

Overview:

AP World History: MODERN is a highly engaging global World History course covering from 1200 to the Present. Much is NEW about conceptualizing, organizing, and teaching the new MODERN version of AP World History.

This institute will provide teachers with the foundational and philosophical underpinnings of the AP World History: Modern course. Learning these core ideas and beliefs, will allow teachers to design and revise instruction for the long-term benefit of their students. This seemingly massive course will become much more manageable with this foundational knowledge.

Significant attention will be spent on unit design and planning, with a focus on skills. Time will be spent on each era, highlighting important topics of study to ensure that our courses are truly global. This session will cover strategies for teaching both chronologically and thematically. Teachers will come away with key lesson and unit planning ideas to guide students to success.

Preparing teachers and students for the AP Exam is an important aspect of this institute. Teachers will get hands-on practice with all parts of the AP World History Exam. Much attention will be given to what students need to know in order to be successful. Teachers will gain great insight on how exam elements are scored. This knowledge will help teachers better teach historical thinking and writing in their classrooms.

This session is designed to serve both teachers who are new to AP World and those who are experienced.

What to Bring:

Participants will benefit from having access to the textbook they will use with their students. This will make unit and lesson planning activities most effective. Some teachers like to use laptops during the session. This is not a requirement, but may enhance the experience for some teachers.

Agenda:

Day 1: Understanding the Course

● What is AP World History?

● Foundations of the course, AP World History: MODERN

● Keys to student success

● Strategies for success on College Board multiple choice questions

● Course and unit planning

Day 2: Focus on the Short-Answer Question and teaching with documents

● Understanding the newest part of the exam, the SAQ

● Focus on Units 3 and 4: 1450 to 1750

Day 3: Focus on the DBQ

● Understanding what the DBQ is and what the DBQ does for College Board

● Mock Reading the most recent DBQs

● Teaching with Primary and Secondary sources ALL YEAR

● Teaching strategies related to primary sources

● Focus on Units 5 and 6: 1750 to 1900

Day 4: Focus on the LEQ

● Understanding what the LEQ is and what the LEQ does for College Board

● Mock Reading the most recent LEQs

● Teaching Historical Reasoning

● Teaching students to use the same writing process as the DBQ to write the LEQ

● How to use the AMAZING new resources available to teachers on MYAP

● Focus on Units 7, 8 and 9: 1900 to Present