| Advanced
Placement Summer Institute 2009
United States Government and Politics
Location
and time
Registration for this section is
now closed.
June 22-25, 2009 (4 days)
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Mon.-Thurs, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
This
institute takes place at the University of Delaware Downtown
Center, 8th and King Streets, Wilmington. (Click
here for driving directions.)
Instructor
Kathleen
C. Hauger
Social Studies Chair, Abington Senior High School, Abington,
PA
Kathleen
Hauger is currently the Chair of Social Studies at Abington
Senior High School, Abington, PA. Kathleen has been a social
studies teacher for 30 years and a teacher of Advanced Placement
Government and Politics for since the course inception. She
is a past reader of the AP exam and has been an AP Government
and Politics consultant for the Middle States College Board
for 15 years, providing workshops for new and experienced
AP teachers throughout the Northeast. She also was a consultant
for the AP Start Up Grant, mentoring a teacher in Boston in
2006. Kathy is also a consultant for the Pre-AP: Interdisciplinary
Strategies for English and Social Studies for the College
Board and has been recertified as a consultant in May, 2003.
Course
description
The course
will cover four major areas: content, the Examination,
teaching strategies, and unit planning. All major areas of
content
required on the AP exam will be discussed as well as best
practices
associated with teaching these areas. Past samples of the
AP exam,
multiple choice and free-response, will be examined in order
to
understand the level of skills needed for students to successfully
pass
the exam. An examination of textbooks and supplemental text
selection
will be explored. An evaluation of teaching materials for
the texts will
also be undertaken. Resources available on the Web, especially
of
organizations dedicated to the study of government, will be
reviewed
with the goal of integrating those resources through technology.
The AP
Audit process will be discussed relating to what is necessary
for a
successful submission of a planned course of study. Participants
will
also work on unit planning for the course. Samples of tests,
readings,
AP Special Focus lessons, and projects will be offered.
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