AP* US History Date: June 28—July 1, 2010 Session: 91166 Time: 8:00 a.m.—4:30 p.m. Location: Amarillo College, Polk Street Campus 1314 S. Polk Street Fee: $450 for Curriculum & Instruction contracting districts; $1,000 for non-contracting districts AP* US History Course Description The United States History institute will include: • What works in the classroom ** • How to set up the AP course and get it all covered before exam • How to improve student scores • Hands-on activities with proven success records • Content-specific lectures • Lesson planning ideas • Advantages of vertical teaming • And, valuable resources Participants are encouraged to bring copies of “best practices” that they may share with the group. Marsha Gray Marsha Gray currently teaches AP United States History at Carroll Senior High School in Southlake, Texas. She has 29 years in education, including 12 in Advanced Placement. Ms. Gray has been an AP exam leader and table leader for the last 7 years and additionally serves as a consultant for Vertical Teaming for Social Studies. She is a graduate of North Texas State University (BA) and Southern Methodist University (MLA). She has been honored in Who’s Who Among American Teachers and was granted a summer of study in India as a Fulbright-Hays scholar. This AP Summer Institute has been endorsed by: *College Board, AP, Advanced Placement Program, AP Vertical Terms, Pre-AP, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the college Board. Used with permission. AP* English Language AP* English Literature Date: June 28—July 1, 2010 Date: June 28—July 1, 2010 Session: 91164 Session: 91165 Time: 8:00 a.m.—4:30 p.m. Time: 8:00 a.m.—4:30 p.m. Location: Amarillo College, Polk Street Campus Location: Amarillo College, Polk Street Campus 1314 S. Polk Street 1314 S. Polk Street Fee: $450 for Curriculum & Instruction contracting Fee: $450 for Curriculum & Instruction contracting districts; $1000 for non-contracting districts Districts; $1,000 for non-contracting districts AP* English Language AP* English Literature Course Description Course Description Presenter Phillip Miller will work with tone, dictation, syntax Participants will discuss and practice strategies for creating and and figurative language. Mr. Miller will share teaching maintaining a student-centered learning environment through strategies that will prepare student’s for the AP Language and close reading strategies and careful analysis of written text. Be- Composition Exam. He will have mini-lessons on style cause there will be a variety of experience levels in the class, analysis and rhetorical strategies. Most of the lessons can be we will utilize all methods we bring to share including the fol- lowing: adapted for the Pre-AP classroom as well. Participants will examine close-reading strategies and writing strategies. • How many and what genres we should include in the course Phillip R. Miller • How do we get students to better assess their own Phillip Miller has been teaching for 20 years, the last 10 with product Amarillo Independent School District. He has taught the last 9 • How to give written feedback and coach our students to years at Amarillo High School. Mr. Miller has Pre-AP do the same experience and he is currently teaching English Language • How to help students learn to read and think carefully and Composition to juniors. For the past 13 years he has and critically been a consultant for the College Board. He also has graded at AP Language Exam for 4 years and is a reader for the IB Joyce Herr Exams. Joyce Herr is currently teaching AP Literature and Language at Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Texas. She taught at Syracuse University College of Environmental Science and Forestry for For more information about the APSI, you can contact: 10 years, Onondaga Community College for 15 years, and has Susan Poteet, Education Specialist been at Amarillo College since 2001. Joyce received a master’s Secondary Language Arts/Writing degree in English at Syracuse University and a master’s degree Region 16 Education Service Center in Educational Social Policy from Empire State College. She has (806) 677-5182 or [email protected] 34 years experience with Advanced Placement and higher education. .