AP United States Government and Politics

College Board offers both face-to-face and online professional learning for new and experienced AP teachers as well as AP coordinators. Led by experienced instructors, AP professional learning provides educators with the support and training needed to successfully teach an AP course.

June–August

AP Summer Institutes are offered online and in-person, with 30+ hours of content-rich training on the course and exam, leveraging AP resources, and strengthening teaching and learning. Participant grants are available for qualifying teachers.

AP Project Based Learning Series

The AP Project Based Learning Series is a one-year program based on powerful research showing that project based learning can improve student performance on the AP Exams. Teachers engage in four days of online or in-person professional learning during an AP Summer Institute, followed by up to five online support sessions throughout the school year.

September–April

Online workshops include live and on-demand sessions led by experienced AP educators. Ideal for new teachers, you’ll learn about the AP course, exam, and AP Classroom resources. 

Fall and Spring

Join these small, online group sessions led by expert AP teachers. Sessions are available for specific AP subjects, and you can choose from three session topics during the school year.  

Working with Challenging Primary Sources

These free online resources offer strategies for teaching reading and writing focused on challenging primary sources. The modules were developed for AP U.S. History teachers, but the nonfiction reading and writing strategies they explore will be useful for teachers of a variety of AP subjects:

Teaching and Assessing AP U.S. Government and Politics gives you online access to sample free-response questions, examples of how to score student responses, videos of master educators modeling key instructional strategies, and resources to help implement these strategies in your classroom.

To access the training:

1. Sign in at myap.collegeboard.org.
2. Click the Go to AP Classroom link for AP U.S. Government and Politics.
3. Click on the Overview page under Course Resources, then select the More tab.
4. Click the Professional Learning link. The Teaching and Assessing course will open in a new browser tab.

Once you sign in to this online space and join the community for your AP course, you can:

• Share real-time strategies, ask questions, and collaborate with teachers worldwide.
• Search, add, and rate teacher resources with your peers in the resource library.
• Follow daily or weekly digests to keep up with your community, wherever you are. Select all discussions or just the topics and discussion threads you choose to follow. You can also reply to discussion posts through email.