AP US Government and Politics
Experience Interactive and Rewarding Professional Development
Learn AP instructional best practices and strategies that lead to student success in the classroom.
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Course At A Glance
Format:
Live-Online & Asynchronous
New & Experienced Combined
Length:
4 days, Monday - Thursday
Dates:
2024 TBD
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Program Hours:
32 Contact Hours
Price:
$550 Standard Registration Fee
$600 Late Registration Fee
College Board APSI Materials
College Board APSI materials are included in your registration fee. To provide greater accessibility, we will be offering the College Board materials electronically. The cost of electronic and hard copy materials are the same.
Workshop Overview
The AP U.S. Government and Politics APSI offers both new and experienced teachers strategies and resources to plan and lead an effective and engaging semester-long or year-long course.
AP U.S. Government & Politics serves as an ‘owners manual’ for effective civic participation by students, both by teaching them the structures of government and introducing them to the core ideologies of contemporary American politics. This APSI will be grounded in the Course and Exam Description. Teachers will build lessons, activities, and assessments focused on student mastery of AP exam skills while also building those lessons around current and relevant examples to bolster student engagement. Each day, teachers in the institute will work closely with one of the four Free Response Question types, understanding how the required disciplinary skills work in tandem with the five units: Foundations of Democracy, Branches of Gov’t, Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, Political Ideologies, and Political Participation. Teachers will identify ways to incorporate the ten Foundational Documents and 15 required Supreme Court cases into engaging lessons that also prepare students for the AP Exam. In addition, teachers will gain familiarity with the resources on the AP Classroom website including the test bank, personal progress checks, daily lesson videos, and pacing guide. The presenter will also provide personally-generated resources and sample lesson plans for all five units.
What You Will Learn
• Exploring the New Curriculum Framework
• Discussion of the New Rubrics
• Teaching the Free Response Questions
• Developing Writing Skills
• Development of Disciplinary Practice and Reasoning Skills
• Use of Primary Sources
• Interactive Classroom Activities
• Demonstrating How to Retool Legacy Lessons
• Participant Sharing of Best Practice
How You Will Benefit
- Align your instruction with the goals of the AP course.
- Identify the skills and knowledge that the exam will assess and identify the tasks and materials for which students might need more preparation.
- Draft a syllabus that meets the curricular requirements for the course.
- Make equitable access a guiding principle in designing instruction.
How Online Workshops Will Work
No one wants to sit and watch a 32-hour long webinar, so we are working closely with our consultants to develop a modified course schedule that allows you greater flexibility, but still gives you the knowledge and skills you need.
Live-online instruction will be conducted through Zoom while asynchronous learning assignments will be managed through Canvas, the University’s learning management system (LMS).
Once you register, we will provide you with more details on how to access the platforms as well as your materials.
To register, please visit our registration portal.
Meet the Instructor
Christopher Lundgren
Christopher Lundgren is the Social Science Dept. Chair, AP U.S. Government & Politics, and Economics teacher at KIPP Nashville Collegiate High School. A classroom teacher for 16 years, including six with APGov, Christopher has taught five different AP courses as well as history-focused resource classes for students who need additional support. He taught for eight years at elite private schools and is now in his eighth year at Collegiate, a Title I charter school whose mission is to create a path to college for Nashville’s students of color.
Christopher has served the College Board as an APGov Mentor and Consultant and as an exam reader since 2018. In 2020, he was part of a two-person team that wrote daily APGov lesson plans for the KIPP Foundation’s AP for All initiative; the plans are used by KIPP teachers throughout the country. The following year, he revised those lessons to reflect best practices for culturally-responsive teaching of the APGov curriculum. In addition, Christopher trained KIPP APGov teachers from across the country in effective virtual instruction during online learning and serves as an instructional coach at Collegiate, helping social science teachers improve classroom management and their students’ academic achievement. He has written assessment materials for several social science courses including APGov for Albert.io, a test-practice website.
In addition to academic instruction, Christopher is the Youth in Government advisor and Girls' Soccer coach for KIPP Collegiate, an instructor of Shotokan Karate, and serves on the board of the Tennessee Environmental Council. He holds a B.A. in Biology from the University of Chicago and master’s degrees in religion and history from Yale and the University of Virginia, respectively. When not teaching or writing, Christopher spends time with his wife and three school-aged children and enjoys drinking espresso in order to keep up with them.
How to Register
To register, please visit our registration portal. Attendees will need to register using their College Board login credentials.
If paying by check or purchase order, CPE staff will follow up with an invoice. Please reference invoice number on check.
If you have questions or need assistance registering, please contact [email protected] or 423-425-4344.
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