Cross-Curricular Workshops

AP Course Skills and Practices Workshop  

This three-hour workshop provides an overview of the intersection of skills that cross all AP courses and exams. This workshop helps both AP and non-AP teachers understand the skills that are critical for college and career success. The workshop provides participants with an understanding of how the skills increase in complexity within and across courses and grades. 

Specific topics include:  

• Teaching for understanding and transfer 
• Understanding AP skills and practices  
• Practice and feedback
• Using AP resources to build skill development  

This workshop may be expanded to a 6-hour workshop that includes opportunities for teachers and teams to plan ways to build skill development within and across the curriculum. In this extended format, teams will be able to collaborate in the development of a scope and sequence that illustrates how the skills can be scaffolded and spiraled within and across courses.  

Any of the skills workshops below may be a stand-alone 3-hour workshop or can be bundled with the AP Course Skills and Practices workshop to provide teachers with opportunities to learn instructional strategies to address skill development across courses and grades.

Developing Evidence-Based Written Arguments  

In this workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how students develop evidence-based written arguments. 

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

•  Understand how to assess evidence-based written arguments and the reasoning process  
• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them
• Discover how AP Exam rubrics can be used to reinforce and develop argumentation skills

Learn instructional strategies that can be used to help students develop evidence-based written arguments.

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be introduced in courses that build toward AP within a discipline and reinforced across AP courses across disciplines. 

Developing Quantitative (Scientific and Mathematical) Arguments  

In this workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how students develop quantitative mathematical and scientific arguments and how related reasoning processes are embedded in their own and other AP courses.   

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

• Understand how to assess quantitative arguments   
• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them  
• Discover how AP Exam rubrics can be used to reinforce and develop quantitative arguments
• Learn instructional strategies to help students develop quantitative arguments  

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be introduced in courses that build toward AP within a discipline and reinforced across AP courses across disciplines.

Analyzing and Interpreting Quantitative Data  

In this workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how students analyze and interpret quantitative data.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

• Understand how to assess students’ abilities to analyze and interpret quantitative arguments  
• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them  
• Discover how AP Exam rubrics can be used to reinforce and develop students’ abilities to analyze and interpret quantitative data
• Learn instructional strategies to help students develop their ability to analyze and interpret quantitative data  

You will have time to collaborate with colleagues from other AP courses to explore how these skills and understandings can be introduced in courses that build toward AP within a discipline and reinforced across AP courses across disciplines.    

Designing Investigation and Experiments  

In this workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how students design investigations and experiments and how related reasoning processes are embedded in their own and other AP courses.   

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:   

• Understand how to assess students’ abilities to design investigations and experiments 
• Discover how AP Exam rubrics can be used to reinforce and develop students’ abilities to design investigations and experiments  
• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them  
• Learn instructional strategies 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 introduced in courses that build toward AP within a discipline and reinforced across AP courses across disciplines.  

Analyzing Context and Situations  

In this workshop, teachers gain a better understanding of how students analyze context and situations. 

In this interactive workshop, you’ll:  

• Understand how to build students’ abilities to analyze context and situations  
• Discover how AP Exam rubrics can be used to reinforce and develop students’ abilities to analyze context and situations
• Relate common student misunderstandings and how to help correct them 
• Learn instructional strategies to help develop students’ abilities 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 introduced in courses that build toward AP within a discipline and reinforced across AP courses across disciplines. 

Cross-Curricular Workshops Table