Drew University

Advanced Placement® Summer Institute

Advanced Placement Summer Institute 2012

Monday, July 30-Friday, August 3, 2012

Registration will open in the spring of 2012.

Drew University is pleased to offer training to teachers of Advanced Placement Program® courses in several academic disciplines. The 2012 Drew University AP® Summer Institutes for Teachers will be held from July 30th – August 3rd. Classes meet Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., and Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., on the Drew University campus in Madison, NJ. Drew is located on almost 200 wooded acres in the foothills of northern New Jersey, 30 miles from New York City and five minutes from Morristown, the military capital of the Revolutionary War.

The Drew University Summer Institute has been endorsed by the College Board and all workshops are led by experienced AP® instructors.

For more information about the 2012 AP® Summer Institute, please email lifelong@drew.edu or call 973.408.3185.

Tuition and Fees 2012

Tuition and fees for each course are $845. After June 29th, registrants must pay an additional $50 late fee. Calculators and laptop computers, which may be required for some courses, are not included in the tuition.

2012 Courses

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  • AP® English Literature and Composition
  • AP® US History
  • AP® World History
  • AP® Calculus
  • AP® Statistics
  • AP® English Language and Composition
  • AP® Psychology
  • AP® US Government and Politics

Brochure/Registration Form

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be received in writing (via fax, email or USPS) prior to end of business on July 16, 2012, or the applicant will be held responsible for tuition and fees. No refunds will be issued after July 18, 2012. The University reserves the right to cancel any course due to insufficient enrollment or for any other reason.

Refreshments and Lunch

Tuition includes morning coffee and lunch in the campus dining hall.

Pre-Course Information

Information for registered participants, including directions, campus map and check-in locations, parking details and welcome letters from instructors, is available on the Pre-Course Information web page, and will be updated throughout the months of June and July.

Housing

Ramada Inn & Conference Center
130 Route 10West
East Hanover, New Jersey 07936
973-386-5622 or http://www.ramada.com/hotels/new-jersey/east-hanover/ramada-conference-center-east-hanover-parsippany/hotel-overview

The Ramada Inn & Conference Center, which is a 10 minute drive from the Drew University Campus, is offering a special rate of $69 per night plus 15% tax for either double or single occupancy to participants of the Advanced Placement® Summer Institutes. This rate includes a complementary hot breakfast buffet and transportation to and from Drew’s campus at appointed times, once daily Monday through Friday.

Reservations must be made directly with the Ramada Inn by July 12, 2012. The special institute rate cannot be guaranteed after this date and/or after the reserved block of rooms have been filled. You are responsible for making your own roommate arrangements.

For other lodging suggestions, please visit http://www.campustravel.com/university/drew/

AP Fellows Program

Secondary school teachers in schools of under-served students may apply to receive fellowships for attendance to AP® Summer Institutes. Teachers must come from a school that has 50% or more under-represented minority students or has 50% or more students from low income families (approximately $31,000 annual income). More information regarding the AP® Fellows Program can be found on The College Board’s Website.

Sample Course Descriptions / Instructor Bios

AP® Calculus AB for Teachers

This course will address issues of importance to both new and experienced AP® Calculus teachers: the current content of the College Board’s Course Description, the AP® exam itself and current scoring guidelines and effective teaching strategies. Participants should bring the graphing calculator used in their classes. We will illustrate most solutions using the TI83-84 and also examine various computer software useful in the teaching of calculus. We will address these technology changes and discuss how to effectively help your students learn calculus and prepare for the Calculus AB exam. Participants are invited to bring their favorite books, articles, cartoons, anecdotes, test questions, and teaching ideas that work.

Instructor Bill Compton has been teaching AP® Calculus AB/BC for the past 27 years and AP® Computer Science AB for the past 20 years at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tenn. He has been a reader or table leader at the AP® Calculus Reading for 17  years and has been a College Board Endorsed Consultant in the Southern Region for the past eleven years presenting one-day, student review, teaching and learning, and week-long summer workshops. During 2005–2007, he conducted the College Board’s online “New AP® Teachers Open-Workshop in AP® Calculus,” presenting a 6 hour introduction for new teachers to AP® Calculus. He can be contacted at comptob@montgomerybell.edu and his home page is http://home.montgomerybell.edu/~comptob/mba/.

 

AP® World History

The Advanced Placement World History Workshop prepares teachers to master the content and techniques necessary for their students to be successful in the course and on the College Board examination. Teachers will become intimately familiar with the new APWH Curriculum Framework and will be fully prepared to teach the course effectively under the new guidelines and write a syllabus that will pass the course audit. Participants will receive College Board Program Updates and numerous important resources available for APWH. Moreover, participants will use scoring rubrics from the official grading of the exam essays to analyze sample essay questions; they will also examine AP-level multiple-choice questions that meet the requirements of the redesigned examination. The instructor will also demonstrate model lessons and activities designed to help students master the new historical thinking skills of the course.

Instructor Monica Bond-Lamberty is an experienced Advanced Placement World History teacher and a former member of the AP World History Test Development Committee (TDC). She is a College Board consultant and has taken part in the annual scoring of the AP World History examination since the first year of the exam. Monica taught for 9 years in Madison, WI and is currently teaching in Montgomery County, MD. She has lived (both with her family and on her own) in the Dominican Republic, Poland, Peru, Guatemala, Japan, and Nicaragua and has traveled a fair amount in Europe, Latin America, Asia and North Africa. She received her BA in history from Williams College in Massachusetts and her MAT from Brown University in Rhode Island. Monica has won teaching prizes from the World History Association and had those lessons published. She is also nationally board certified in social studies. You can reach Monica at mbondlamberty@gmail.com

 

AP® Statistics

This course will be devoted to investigating the current AP Statistics curriculum and how to teach an AP statistics class.  Whether you are new to the course or have taught it before, this workshop will offer you the opportunity to create a new course of study or fine tune your approach. All topics in the AP Statistics Teacher’s Guide will be addressed with considerable attention to ways to prepare your students for the AP exam.  We will look at how to incorporate the graphing calculator as a tool to improve our analysis of a problem.  Daily hands on activities will be introduced that can be taken back into your classroom as well as various methods for teaching a single concept.  Participants should bring to the institute 20 copies of their favorite lesson/activity.  Participants are invited to send questions or concerns directly to Jeanne Lorenson at lorensonj@aol.com.

Instructor Jeanne Lorenson recently retired after being the AP Statistics teacher and mathematics department chair at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland.  She completed six years as a table leader for AP Statistics exam and has been a reader since the first exam in 1997.  She is a consultant for the College Board and has previously taught various week-long AP Statistics workshops most recently in Ashville NC and Lewes Delaware. In addition to AP Mentoring Workshops, she was working with student teachers at GWU.  She was a presenter at the ASA meeting in Baltimore, speaking on the role of statistics in the high school and has edited both the second and third edition of the Yates, Moore and Starnes Practice of Statistics.  Previously, she worked for Montgomery County Public School in Maryland, where she was a resource teacher. While in that position, she taught AP Statistics; was a one of the writers for the county AP Statistics curriculum and the semester exams and was a trainer for the teachers in that system.

AP® English Language and Composition for Teachers

This class will discuss, evaluate, and investigate the AP® Language and Composition Essay and multiple choice questions from past AP® Exams. Participants will create their own classes and curricula to prepare students for these examinations. Practices and strategies for each part of the exam will be explored and examined. The class will emphasize, but not be limited to, the recent examinations and their changes, and will also focus on a study of rhetoric and writing. The class will also investigate and practice holistic scoring and develop appropriate assessment vehicles for language and rhetoric. Participants will be expected to be active members of the class and to make presentations to the class. At the end of the class, participants will be required to submit a course of study or a syllabus as a final project.

Instructor Denise Hayden has been teaching at Floral Park Memorial High School since 1988. She has taught all levels of English grades 7 through 12 as well as electives in public speaking, dramatics, and journalism. She has been teaching AP® English Language and Composition since 1997. She currently teaches AP® English Language and Composition in a linked program with AP® United States History. She and her colleague Nicholas Simone presented this interdisciplinary program at the AP® National Conference 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two articles written by her about interdisciplinary approaches to teaching AP® and a comparison between the synthesis prompt and the document based question can be found at AP® Central. In 1992 she was named the Teacher of the Year from Floral Park Memorial High School by the Sewanhaka Central High School District. In 2002 she was named an Educator of Excellence by the New York State English Council.

AP® English Literature and Composition for Teachers

This course is designed for both new and experienced teachers of AP® English literature. It will examine various aspects of the course from selecting texts to lesson plans, internet activities and handling the paper load. There will be practice in applying the AP® rubric to actual student essays from past years, managing multiple choice and debriefing on the ‘10 exam. Participants will practice passage analysis. timed writing and multiple choice as well as share teaching strategies that have worked in the AP® English literature classroom. Participants will be asked to bring copies of lessons and read Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying prior to attending the summer institute.

Instructor Mary Filak is a veteran of 30 years in the English classroom, including eleven teaching AP® English literature and AP® English language at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J. In addition to high school teaching, she has taught composition at colleges in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. She has been a reader and table leader of the AP® English literature exam for the last twelve years and is an endorsed consultant for the College Board, presenting workshops in English Literature & Composition. She currently teaches adult education courses at the University of South Caroline, Beaufort.

AP® US Government and Politics for Teachers

This course is designed to prepare teachers to teach Advanced Placement United States Government and Politics.  This program will address the scope and sequence of the AP* U.S. Government and Politics course.  This will be based on the full cycle of an AP* course—from selection of students (and a full discussion of Equity and Access policies) through summer reading, from the AP* Audit and course to teaching units and PowerPoint presentations and projects, from constitutional foundations to the interactions which result in the formulation of political policy.  There will be readings, curriculum unit development, practice tests, and computer laboratory time for project development as well as a thorough review of questions from the most recent examination. Participants will see a variety of approaches and should be prepared for a strong interactive experience. The instructional approach includes some lecture, discussion of concepts, analysis of materials, and developments of sample units of study.

Instructor Anthony Dalasio has been a teacher and Humanities Department Chairman at Lackawanna Trail Junior-Senior High School for the past 23 years. Mr. Dalasio has been an Advanced Placement teacher for the past 15 years, teaching a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including US Government and Politics, US History, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Comparative Government. He has served as a Reader for the AP Exams in US Government and Politics, Economics, and Comparative Government, and he has presented workshops and institutes for the College Board in AP US Government and Politics for the past ten years. In addition to his Advanced Placement work, he has also been an adjunct faculty member at both the University of Scranton and at Keystone College, serving in both the History and Education departments.

An avid traveler, Mr. Dalasio taught for two years at Escuela Internacional Sampedrana in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and has also participated in the Fulbright Teacher Program in Japan. The highlight of his teaching career has been his participation in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, a full year teacher exchange in which Mr. Dalasio taught at a magnet school in Estonia. In his spare time, Mr. Dalasio is an avid golfer and Philadelphia sports fan, and he resides in Clarks Green, Pennsylvania with his wife, Mary Barbara, and his children, AJ and Maria.

 

AP® Psychology

This workshop will show participants how to create a viable AP Psychology course in their schools. It is intended for those people who may not be new to teaching but are new to teaching an advanced placement program. It will emphasize textbook selection, writing a syllabus that will pass the College Board audit, and assembling a year-long reading and assignment schedule. The workshop will examine how to manage the course and the classroom to maximize student involvement, how to put the course content in context, how to teach thematically, and how to construct challenging multiple choice questions as well as open-ended free response questions along with accurate and reliable rubrics to grade them.

Participants will leave the workshop with handouts on all of the active learning activities described during the week and many more and a wide range of other materials, including sample AP exams, lesson plans, free response questions, study skills suggestions, journal writing assignments, exam review books, and critical thinking exercises, all of which are guaranteed to help you create a classroom culture conducive to teaching and learning.

Instructor Tom Purcell taught in the Social Studies Department at Danbury High School, Danbury, CT for 42 years until June, 2009 when he retired.  He taught AP Psychology since its inception in 1992 as well as AP World History with most of his students receiving 5’s on both exams. He is currently an educational consultant for the College Board and gives AP workshops to new and experienced psychology teachers around the country.  He received his B.A. in Modern European History from Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. and minored in French and philosophy. He was awarded a Master of Arts in Teaching (European History) two years later from the Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1974, he earned a Certificate of Advanced Study from Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT in school psychology and later received his Ed.D. from the University of Sarasota (now Argosy University) in 1990.

AP® United States History for Teachers

This course focuses on helping teachers develop a comprehensive program of study for their individual classes. In addition to examining methods and materials, participants will learn how to best prepare students for the AP® examination in May. This will include an analysis of the free response questions, the document-based question, and hands-on work with grading rubrics. Teachers will have the opportunity to plan and prepare a one- or two-year curriculum. A variety of materials will be offered to enhance this process, including sample research assignments, classroom exercises, user friendly documents, and a review program to help students review for the test.

Instructor Tim Cullen has been working with high school students for over forty years. As department supervisor for Social Studies at Leonia High School in New Jersey, his classroom duties include Advanced Placement courses in Social Studies, Economics and Government-Politics. Tim served as a reader for the AP examination for twelve years. He presently teaches professional development seminars for the College Board and mentors teachers in his district. Active in curriculum development, Tim has helped pilot programs in a variety of fields including: history, economics, management, and student government.  He is presently developing a new curriculum in A.P. Government-Politics.

 A James Madison Scholar, and Associate Program Director for the Stratford Hall Seminar on Slavery, Tim was named a Distinguished Secondary Teacher by Princeton University, Outstanding Educator by The College of New Jersey, and Teacher of the Year by Foundation for Free Enterprise. Most recently, he received the University of Rochester Singer Prize.  Married to the former Claire Jacoby, the couple has two daughters, a son, and three grandchildren: Kevin, Luke, and Nola Claire.