About the AP Project Based Learning Series
The AP Project Based Learning Series is a one-year professional learning program that begins with an AP Summer Institute followed by online support sessions throughout the school year. It’s designed for AP teachers with any level of experience with project based learning (PBL).
The program is currently available for the following AP courses:
- Environmental Science
- Human Geography
- Statistics
- U.S. Government and Politics
- World History: Modern
Workshops are designed and delivered in collaboration with PBLWorks, the premier organization in project based learning (PBL) teaching methodology.
What You’ll Learn
The AP PBL Series will prepare you to implement an engaging, student-centered project-based instructional approach in your classroom. The projects in the series drive student learning of the content and skills outlined in the AP course framework.
During the AP Summer Institute, you’ll learn about high-quality PBL design elements and teaching practices to help you plan and implement a project-driven approach within your AP course.
You’ll continue building on your understanding of PBL through project implementation and support sessions throughout the school year.
You’ll learn how to:
Identify how AP content and skills are developed within and across the course projects.
Apply high-quality PBL design elements and teaching practices.
Simulate and model PBL practices using examples from the course projects.
Adapt the projects and prepare to implement them with your students.
CEUs
Like other research-based workshops that are shown to improve student performance, the AP PBL Series requires ongoing professional learning throughout the school year. Accordingly, you’ll receive more continuing education units (CEUs) than participants who attend a standard AP Summer Institute.
Cost and What’s Included
The $799 online or $1299 in-person registration fee includes:
4 days of online or in-person professional learning during the AP Summer Institute (30 hours), including access to project implementation guides and instructional materials.
Up to 5 online, 90-minute sustained support sessions during the school year (timed with the expected completion dates of each project). You’ll be able to choose from several dates and times for each of these sessions.
Each project’s implementation guide includes a table with the AP content knowledge and skills to be developed in the project. The guide also includes AP Classroom resources, such as AP Daily videos, topic questions, and free-response questions, along with suggestions on how to use them within each project cycle.
Available Funding
College Board offers grants for qualifying teachers new to an AP subject to attend an AP Summer Institute.