Workshops & Instructors – AP Summer Institute

The College of Wooster’s APSI 2021 has been cancelled. Please check back in 2022!

Participants in all workshops are encouraged to bring laptops, texts, lesson plans, and other materials.

Special Session on Thursday
AP* Coordinator (APC) Workshop: Parts 1 and 2

This full-day workshop – updated for the 2019-20 school year – is designed to help new and experienced AP* coordinators learn how to efficiently and successfully manage their schools’ AP* program. In this workshop, you will have the chance to exchange best practices and learn new ways to handle the responsibilities of coordinating an AP* program.

Learning Outcomes

After this workshop, you will be able to:

Access, setup, and use the AP* Registration and Ordering system
Enroll students and manage the student roster
Support AP* teachers in accessing resources
Navigate the AP* Course Audit process
Order AP* Exams
Administer exams to students with accommodations
Administer exams that require technology and/or audio equipment
Train proctors
Maintain exam security
Arrange off-site testing
Arrange late testing
Handle testing incidents and disruptions
Return AP* Exams
Access and pay your school’s invoice

Calculus AB/BC

This workshop for AB/BC Calculus will start with an examination of the new curriculum framework for both the Calculus AB and Calculus BC courses. Time will be spent examining the implications of this new framework and changes in course content and instruction necessary to conform to that framework. From there, most of the major topics in the syllabus will be covered starting with the big idea of limits, and moving on to derivatives and integrals, and finishing with infinite series. All topics are approached from a multi-representational (symbolic, numeric, graphic, descriptive) point of view with the use of graphing calculators. Emphasis is on conceptual understanding rather than computation, and broad concepts and widely applicable methods are presented rather than details and special tricks. The workshop will also look at the rubrics for the exam, issues coming from student performance on exams, and any other topics with which participants have concerns.

This workshop will be led by Jim Hartman and Jeff Kreis. Dr. Hartman did his undergraduate work at Manchester College and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Jim had been a professor at The College of Wooster from 1981-2019 (now retired – mostly?!), taught in our AP* Summer Institute since its inception, and has graded the AP* exam for thirty years. Mr. Kreis received his B.A. from Malone College and M.A. in Mathematics Education at the University of Akron. This will be Jeff’s eleventh year instructing calculus in our AP* Summer Institute. He has taught mathematics at North Canton Hoover High School for 35 years (plus one year at Bucyrus HS) and was named Ameritech/Canton Repository Teacher of the Year in 1998.

Calculus AB/BC workshop details

English Language and Composition

Participants will review the AP* Language and Composition exams, practice evaluating the exams, and work in scoring sample exams. Other features of the workshop will include discussions of genre, epistemology, exam preparation strategies, classroom methods, as well as hands-on work with samples of student writing and presentation of developing plans for participants’ own AP* classes.

This workshop will be instructed by Myrte Campbell and Gillian Lee. Ms. Campbell, who has taught AP* courses for thirteen years and scores the AP* English Language exam as a table leader, is currently an educator with Milwaukee Public Schools (Wisconsin), while pursuing a PhD in Language & Literacy at Cardinal Stritch University; she received her MA from Georgia State University and her BA from Marquette University. Ms. Lee, a graduate of The College of Wooster, received her MFA from the University of Akron and is currently a Writing Center Consultant / Adjunct at Wooster.

U.S. History

While this workshop will now focus on the new curriculum framework and exam, our U.S. History session will continue to emphasize two principal objectives: 1) teaching the best possible, most interesting survey course; and 2) preparing students to do their best on the Advanced Placement examination. The workshop leaders will assist participants in thoroughly familiarizing themselves with the Historical Thinking Skills, Thematic Learning Objectives and Concept Outline that form the backbone of the new curriculum framework. Participants will be immersed in a complete, new practice AP exam, and will be shown how and given the opportunity to develop their own practice exam questions to use with their students. Document-based and free response questions from previous AP exams will be used as both teaching and test preparation materials after being revised to conform to the new curriculum framework.

This workshop will be led by Jordan Biro Walters. Ms. Walters has been an Assistant Professor of History at The College of Wooster since 2016 and this will be her first year as one of our APSI instructors. She earned her B.A. and her M.A. at the California State University and her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in 2015.

CEU Credits

CEU credit may be obtained for the 30 hours of instructional time. This is done by the participant through their local professional development committee. (College credit is not available.)