Cross-Curricular Workshops

AP Course Skills and Practices Workshop  

This three-hour online or in-person workshop provides an overview of the intersection of skills that cross the 38 AP courses and exams and addresses the skills that are critical for college and career success. This workshop helps all high school teachers (both AP and non-AP) understand how to build skill development within and across the curriculum. It addresses baseline skills and provides participants with an understanding of how the skills increase in complexity and strategies to address those more complex skills.  

Specific topics include:  

• Teaching for understanding and transfer 
• Applying critical reasoning and thinking processes  
• Importance of practice and formative assessments
• Using AP resources to enhance instruction  

Developing Evidence-Based Written Arguments  

In this three-hour online or in-person workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how to develop evidence-based written arguments and how related reasoning processes are embedded in their own and other AP courses.  

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

•  Illustrate how to assess developing evidence-based written arguments and the reasoning process  
• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them
• Model instructional strategies that can be used to teach developing writing evidence-based arguments  

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be reinformed across AP courses.  

Developing Quantitative (Scientific and Mathematical) Arguments  

In this three-hour online or in-person workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how to develop quantitative arguments and how related reasoning processes are embedded in their own and other AP courses.  

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

• Illustrate how to assess developing quantitative arguments and the reasoning process  

• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them  

• Model instructional strategies that can be used to teach developing quantitative arguments  

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be reinformed across AP courses.  

Analyzing and Interpreting Quantitative Data  

In this three-hour online or in-person workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how to analyze and interpret quantitative data and how related reasoning processes are embedded in their own and other AP courses.  

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

• Illustrate how to analyze and interpret quantitative arguments and the reasoning process  

• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them  

• Model instructional strategies that can be used to teach analyzing and interpreting quantitative data  

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be reinformed across AP courses.    

Designing Investigation and Experiments  

In this three-hour online or in-person workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how to design investigation and experiments and how related reasoning processes are embedded in their own and other AP courses.  

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:   

• Illustrate how to design investigation and experiments and the reasoning process  

• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them  

• Model instructional strategies that can be used to teach how to design investigation and experiments  

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be reinformed across AP courses.  

Analyzing Context and Situations  

In this three-hour online or in-person workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how to analyze context and situations and how related reasoning processes are embedded in their own and other AP courses.  

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

• Illustrate how to analyze context and situations and the reasoning process  

• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them 

• Model instructional strategies that can be used to teach how to analyze context and situations  

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be reinformed across AP courses.  

Cross-Curricular Workshops Table