Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives

Tulane University in New Orleans will host its third Advanced Placement Summer Institute this June 24-27, 2013. These courses will provide a challenging and exciting opportunity for AP teachers to learn new strategies to improve their students’ AP performance.

This summer, make the most of your professional development and join us in New Orleans as we continue our tradition of AP course instruction at Tulane University. Courses offered  will be beneficial to experienced and new teachers alike. This is an official College Board-approved APSI.

If you have any questions, please email apsi@tulane.edu or call Alex Hand at 504 274-3680.

DATES AND LOCATION

The Advanced Placement Summer Institute will take place June 24-27, 2013. Course hours are 8:00am – 4:00pm. All courses will be near Tulane University’s beautiful Uptown campus at:

Lusher Charter School

5624 Freret Street

New Orleans, LA 70115

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration is now open! Click here to register for a specific course online before your session fills up.

For all courses, click below to pay online:

ATTN: Alexander Hand

Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives

Tulane University

200 Broadway Street, Suite 108

New Orleans, Louisiana 70118

Payment Orders should be sent to the same address. Checks must be received by June 7th. Details regarding location, syllabus, and schedule will be sent mid-May.

Payment must be received to complete registration and guarantee your reservation.

Each workshop will cost $600, except AP Administration ($300). Course fees include course-related materials, parking fees, breakfast and lunch.

LODGING

Tulane University has secured a group rate with Best Western Plus St. Charles Inn, located at 3636 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. The following group rates are applicable for the APSI group:

• Single-Quad: $129.00 per night
• Single-Quad St. Charles View: $159.00 per night

All reservations under this rate must be made by May 9, 2013. For more information, or to make a reservation please call 1 (800) 489-9908 and request the group APSI Group. Check out the rooms here

Shuttle Service between the AP Summer Institute site and hotel will be provided daily at no extra charge.

If you have any questions please email apsi@tulane.edu or call Alex Hand at 504 274-3680.

AP BIOLOGY

This AP Biology workshop will explore all aspects of the new program including the Curriculum Framework (the four “Big Ideas”, the seven “Science Practices”, “Learning Objectives”, etc.), how to set up your course, how to run inquiry-based labs, and how to prepare students for the new examination. Participants will get hands-on experience with the new inquiry-based labs. We will also discuss ways to modify your existing lab program to fit the new AP Science Practice Standards. Participants will be instructed in the new national exam design, particularly in contrast with the former exam. Other topics include the new audit and reviewing resource materials for this course.

Participants should bring this coming year’s school calendar for planning purposes, as well as handouts of one of their best Biology activities (favorite lab demonstration, etc.) to share with other participants.

Teacher Bio:

Erol Altug Erol Altug has both a B.A. in Biology, Secondary Education and a M.Div. Following two years of part-time teaching at Trinity College, Erol worked for twenty years at the elite Robert College of Istanbul (RC, the oldest American school abroad, is a highly academic co-educational prep school for Turkish youth), where he introduced and coordinated the first Advanced Placement program in Turkey. In 2001, he and his family moved to The Stony Brook School on Long Island, NY (a private, co-educational prep school), where he serves as science department chairman. Erol is actively involved with the Advanced Placement program nationally and internationally. During the grading of the AP Biology exam, he has served as a Reader, Table Leader, and as a Question Leader. He is a consultant for The College Board and has presented at one-day teacher workshops, multi-day events, and Advanced Placement Summer Institutes both in the USA and in Canada.

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AP CHEMISTRY

This four day workshop, designed for new AP Chemistry teachers or those who have taught AP Chemistry for 1-3 years, will review the basic concepts in a general college chemistry course with the intent of exploring the proper manner to present and to evaluate them. Special emphasis will be placed on classroom management and laboratory planning to fill the needs of the current AP curriculum and the upcoming course re-design in 2013-2014. Participants will perform and evaluate labs and activities of various styles such as micro-scale, calculator-based, data collection with probeware, as well as traditional macro scale experiments. Significant time will be spent on developing an understanding of the actual test and methods for ensuring students’ success.

Teacher Bio:

Mark Case is a 33 year-veteran, chemistry teacher from Emmaus High School in the East Penn School District in Emmaus, PA. Mark also is an experienced consultant in both Chemistry and Educational Technology. He served as a member of the College Board’s AP Vertical Team in Science Committee, which has developed a guidebook for improving science education. Mark also is involved in writing items for the SAT II and ACT chemistry exams. He is a Dreyfus Master Teacher and has shared team leadership of the WWNFF CHEM6 Chemistry team, with whom he presented over fourteen, one-week TORCH institutes for chemistry teachers throughout the country. Mark has also served as a computer applications instructor for the Summer Chemistry Institutes at Princeton University, and he created the WWNFF chemistry webpage. He has presented numerous technology workshops, including TI calculator and CBL/LabPro, Graphical Analysis, Concept Mapping, Internet, and Multimedia workshops for science teachers. Mark has presented several topics at ACS meetings, Chem Ed conferences, national NSTA meetings, and the Phillips-Exeter Math, Science and Technology conferences. His several notable awards include the 1994 Tandy Technology Scholars Award, being a multi-year, state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching, and selected as a 2006 Master Teacher by the DaVinci Science Center.

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AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION

Training will focus on the meaning of rhetoric and offer many take-home lessons for teachers to use with their students.  Rhetorical analysis lessons will give teachers strategies for teaching the rhetorical analysis essay, including how to decode the prompt and write commentary.  Persuasive lessons will focus on using the appeals, addressing the prompt, and using appropriate evidence.  Synthesis lessons will offer techniques for writing the synthesis essay and learning to incorporate students’ own arguments in their essays. The aim of the lessons is to offer strategies which are proven to turn “4” essays into at least “6’s” and to turn scores on the AP exam of 2 into scores of 3 and 4. Participants will also receive several lessons which address the multiple choice section of the exam.  These lessons are based on released passages and stress the skills of annotating and finding patterns in the text.   Participants will also receive a researched argument unit focusing on the meaning of the self which culminates in students writing a synthesis/persuasive essay.

Teacher Bio:

Sandra Coker taught high school English and social studies for twenty-seven years, most recently she taught AP English Language at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. She is a veteran AP teacher and College Board consultant for AP English Language professional development. Ms. Coker is also a faculty consultant for The College Board and the Educational Testing Service as a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader for the AP English Language Exam. In addition, she is a consultant and mentor for Louis Educational Concepts, and she conducts professional development and student sessions for several organizations.  Ms. Coker is co-author of Analysis, Argument, and Synthesis and Writing the Synthesis Essay.  She also served as a member of the committee to write and compile the Texas Education Agency’s Lighthouse Initiative for English Language Arts Classrooms, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and the Advanced Placement Program. She has recently completed leading a team in writing professional development for high school English III end of course exams for STAR Quality Resources.

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AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

Participants will examine the course requirements and expectations for Advanced Placement English Literature & Composition, including simulated readings of student responses to the 2013 essay prompts and a careful exploration of multiple choice questions from previous exams.  Workshop materials will offer pragmatic resources for participants to adapt and use with their students to develop academic skills for success: critical thinking, close reading, and writing literary analysis and argument.  Participants will also engage in passage analysis, timed writing, sharing best practices with colleagues, and exploring ways to implement Common Core State Standards with AP English Literature.

Teacher Bio:

Michael (Jerome) Evans currently teaches AP English Literature & Composition at La Cueva High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He has served as a Reader for both AP English Literature & Composition and AP English Language & Composition.  A College Board AP Consultant since 2004, he has presented workshops for the Phoenix Desert Summer Institute, sessions at AP National Conferences, as well as 1 and 2-Day AP Workshops in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma.  He became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2011.

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AP US HISTORY

This workshop will provide teachers with curricular materials and classroom-tested strategies to teach an advanced level history course and to prepare students for success on the AP United States History exam. Participants will be provided with sample syllabi that address content and pacing concerns, sample lessons and activities to engage students in the historical process.  Particular emphasis will be given to activities that train students to read, write and think like historians.

Teacher Bio:

Penny Rosas , an educator for over 25 years, has been a College Board consultant and exam reader for the past eight years. Receiving her undergraduate degree from Pan American University and her M.Ed. from University of Texas—Pan American, both of Edinburg, Texas, Penny has taught junior high school through college history classes and finally found her true calling with high school juniors. Teaching high school students and working with educators are her passions. Celebrating 32 years of marriage, enjoying her grandson, reaping the benefits of an empty nest, Penny loves reading on her brand new Kindle Fire.

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