Event Archives
Recorded Archives of Live Events
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- AP Art History: Beyond the European Tradition
- AP Biology: Cladograms
- AP Calculus: Differential Equations
- AP Macroeconomics: Growth
- AP Environmental Science: Modeling
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General
- Administering AP® World Language Exams
This workshop is valuable for coordinators of AP French Language, AP German Language, and AP Spanish Language.
Getting Started with an AP Course
- Getting Started with AP Art History
- Getting Started with AP English
- Getting Started with AP Mathematics
This workshop is valuable for teachers of AP Calculus, AP Computer Science, and AP Physics. - Getting Started with AP World Languages
This workshop is valuable for teachers of AP Chinese Language and Culture, AP French Language, AP German Language, AP Japanese Language and Culture, and AP Spanish Language.
Using the FRQs in the AP Classroom
- AP English Language: Using the FRQs in the Classroom
- AP Calculus: Using the FRQs in the Classroom
- AP Spanish Language: Using the FRQs in the Classroom
AP Art History: Beyond the European Tradition
About the event
Please join us for the recorded archive of the live, online event with presenter Michael Bieze. This AP Art History workshop presents a variety of ways for teachers to meaningfully include art beyond the European tradition in their classes. The AP Art History course content requires teachers to include exploration of many cultures to enrich students' understanding of the discipline of art history. It is suggested in the AP Art History Course Description that approximately 20% of course content be devoted to art beyond the European tradition, and one of the two extended essay questions on the AP Art History Exam requires students to cite examples of art from beyond the European tradition. Moreover, a full analysis of art history requires students to be familiar with art from around the globe. How to do this with limited classroom time is the challenge. This session provides teachers with both conceptual and practical ways to achieve this goal.
About the presenter
Michael Bieze has been an AP Reader, Table Leader, Question Leader, and member of the AP Art History Exam Development Committee. His own writing examines progressive era African American aesthetics, particularly the role of Booker T. Washington. He is the author of Booker T. Washington and the Art of Self-Representation (Peter Lang, 2008). Dr. Bieze teaches art history and studio art at Marist School in Atlanta, where he is chair of the Fine Arts department.
| Event Fee (including materials) | $35 for staff at College Board member institutions $45 for those at nonmember institutions |
| Register Online (credit card) | Go to the registration page for this event
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| Register by Fax (check, purchase order, or credit card) | Download and print the Online Events and Workshops Registration Form (.pdf/38K) |
| Additional Information | Technical and log-in directions will be sent via email within two weeks of your registration. |
AP Biology: Cladograms
About the event
During this recorded archive of a live online workshop, participants learn the history of the use of cladograms to graphically illustrate phylogenetic relationships of organisms at all levels-from subspecies to domains. A large part of the discussion focuses on the construction of cladograms, using various parameters such as morphological and anatomical characteristics, proteins, and protein expression as well as genomic information including nuclear, mitochondrial, and chloroplast DNA and RNA. We also explore the utility of cladograms in the determination of phylogenetic relationships, and their inherent limitations. Participants gain the basic knowledge necessary to construct and critically evaluate cladograms, and an open discussion at the end of the session is dedicated to brainstorming effective strategies for using this knowledge into the classroom.
About the presenter
Dr. Ron Balsamo is an associate professor of biology at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He has taught general biology for majors for the last 15 years and is currently a member of the AP Biology Development Committee. He has also taught nonmajors biology, histology, botany, cell and molecular biology, and morphology and evolution of vascular plants at the undergraduate level, as well as plant ecophysiology, plant response to extreme environments and physiological adaptations to arid environments at the graduate level. Since 1998, Balsamo has concentrated his efforts on understanding basic biomechanical properties of plants that relate to survival of drought and desiccation, and the impact that mechanical properties have on food selection in tortoises. Currently, Balsamo has support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the impact of cell wall cellulose microfibril arrangements on survival during drought and desiccation in South African forage grasses.
| Event Fee (including materials) | $35 for staff at College Board member institutions $45 for those at nonmember institutions |
| Register Online (credit card) | Go to the registration page for this event
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| Register by Fax (check, purchase order, or credit card) | Download and print the Online Events and Workshops Registration Form (.pdf/38K) |
| Additional Information | Technical and log-in directions will be sent via email within two weeks of your registration. |
AP Calculus: Differential Equations
About the event
Please join us for the recorded archive of the live, online event with presenter Dan Lotesto. Differential equations are an important topic in AP Calculus. The last several AP Exams have included differential equations as free-response questions. In this recorded workshop we explore them from several perspectives. Participants learn and share methods of introducing the topic, helping students recognize differential equations in context, translate problems into differential equations and solve problems using slope fields, Euler's Method, and by the method of separation of variables.
About the presenter
Dan Lotesto has been teaching AP Calculus since 1987 at Riverside High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has been a College Board consultant since 1993, having served as a workshop presenter throughout the Midwest Region. Mr. Lotesto has been served as a Reader, Table Leader and Question Leader at the AP Readings. He is currently Chair-elect of the MAA special interest group, Teaching Advanced High School Mathematics (SIGMAA TAHSM) and has just begun a three-year tenure as Chair of the SAT Mathematics development Committee.
| Event Fee (including materials) | $35 for staff at College Board member institutions $45 for those at nonmember institutions |
| Register Online (credit card) | Go to the registration page for this event.
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| Register by Fax (check, purchase order, or credit card) | Download and print the Online Events and Workshops Registration Form (.pdf/38K) |
| Additional Information | Technical and log-in directions will be sent via email within two weeks of your registration. |
AP Macroeconomics: Growth
About the event
Please join us for the recorded archive of the live, online event with presenter Clark Ross. During this session, Dr. Ross defines economic growth and discusses the derivation of the long run and short run aggregate supply curves. In recent years the AP Development Committee for AP Economics has signaled that students should have a stronger understanding of economic growth. Ross contrasts economic growth with an increase in real gross domestic product and discusses ways to promote economic growth. Additionally, he reviews several past free-response questions which relate to the topic of economic growth.
About the presenter
Clark Ross is the vice-president for academic affairs, dean of faculty, and F.W. Johnson Professor of Economics at Davidson College in North Carolina. Dr. Ross is a College Board consultant, presenting both AP Economics workshops and Summer Institutes. He served as the Chief Reader for the AP Economics Exam from 1998–2004.
| Event Fee (including materials) | $35 for staff at College Board member institutions $45 for those at nonmember institutions |
| Register Online (credit card) | Go to the registration page for this event
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| Register by Fax (check, purchase order, or credit card) | Download and print the Online Events and Workshops Registration Form (.pdf/38K) |
| Additional Information | Technical and log-in directions will be sent via email within two weeks of your registration. |
AP Environmental Science: Modeling
About the event
Please join us for the recorded archive of the live, interactive online event with presenter Mike Taber. Using environmental data is important in the promotion of inquiry, particularly in student-centered, problem-based, site-based learning environments. Skills in spatial and temporal data analysis, coupled with learning how to run environmental models, are critical for conducting environmental inquiry. Participants in this session share firsthand experiences resulting from independent pre-event activities including learning environmental data acquisition, new data analysis tools (including GIS), and modeling for prediction. During the event, discussions focus on the important aspects of learning that stems from analysis of different forms of environmental data.
About the presenter
Mike Taber has been a science educator for more than twenty years. He has taught science at the sixth grade, middle school, and high school levels. Dr. Taber is currently professor of education at Colorado College. Mike is in his sixth year of a National Science Foundation grant, called AccessData. The grant brings together scientists, educators, data analysis tool experts, and curriculum developers to develop methods for collaboration, resulting in professional development modules targeting educators. Mike's professional goal is to contribute to the understanding of how the use of scientific data can promote the learning of inquiry, particularly for preservice teachers.
| Event Fee (including materials) | $35 for staff at College Board member institutions $45 for those at nonmember institutions |
| Register Online (credit card) | Go to the registration page for this event
|
| Register by Fax (check, purchase order, or credit card) | Download and print the Online Events and Workshops Registration Form (.pdf/38K) |
| Additional Information | Technical and log-in directions will be sent via email within two weeks of your registration. |