• Course: Biology
  • Dates: July 16-19
  • Instructor: Patrcia Mote, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, GA, email - ptmote@aol.com

    • Pat Mote taught biology at the high school level for over thirty years serving as department chair for many of these years. She was also an adjunct instructor at the college level for 18 of these years. She holds degrees in Microbiology, Genetics, and Science Education from the University of Georgia. For over twenty years she taught AP Biology and conducted one-day workshops and summer institutes at various schools and universities in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Virginia, Washington, DC, Texas, and California.

    She has been involved with the AP Reading to score the free response questions from the AP Biology Exam since 1992, serving as reader, table leader, and question leader. She has written multiple-choice questions for the current AP Exam and is now developing questions for the new format of the AP Biology Exam in 2013.

    During her career as a high school teacher she was named her high school Teacher of the Year several times and also Teacher of the Year for her school district. In 1995, she was the Georgia Biology Teacher of the Year and a Tandy Technology Scholar. In 2003, she received the Siemens Award in Biology for her work with minority students in the AP program at her school.

    She has written and edited various teacher guides for anatomy and physiology textbooks and for AP Biology textbooks. She has recently had items published in The College Board’s Materials for Professional Workshops. She serves as an editor for articles for The American Biology Teacher and helped edit the current edition of the AP Biology Lab Manual for Students published by The College Board. She has edited numerous editions of Human Anatomy and Physiology textbooks. Other publications include articles for several microbiology journals from research conducted at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and two instructor’s guides for AP Biology. And she has been teaching the summer molecular biology program “Bio @ TECH” for the past 11 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

    Pat resides in Atlanta and is currently a Human Anatomy and Physiology instructor at Georgia Perimeter College.

  • Course Description:
    Whether a teacher is just beginning to teach an AP Biology course or has taught the course for years, there will be something for everyone at the Woodward Academy Advanced Placement Summer Institute in 2012.

    This comprehensive course will provide information and experiences on how to teach both the classroom and laboratory components of an AP Biology course. Activities to support an understanding of the revised structure and design of the AP Biology Framework will be a major part of this summer institute. There will be instruction on how to prepare an Audit based on the new curriculum framework. Teachers will be introduced to the new laboratory investigations that will be in the revised AP Biology Student Laboratory Manual. In addition, activities and strategies to support inquiry-based learning will be presented along with how to incorporate these inquiry activities into the coursework. Participants will learn how to organize the course in order to have time to present the material to the students as well as to conduct the laboratory investigations.

    The nature of the AP Biology Exam and the importance of the grading process will be presented. A review and discussion of the standards for the four free response questions from the 2012 Exam will also be included. Teachers will learn methods to better prepare their students for writing the answers to the free response portion of the AP Exam. The new format for the 2013 AP Biology Exam will be presented.
  • Included:
    • Materials & Textbooks
    • Labs (other than AP Labs)
    • Technology Assignment Options
    • Lunch & Snacks
  • Emphasis:
    • The AP Program
    • The AP Biology Redesign
    • The AP Biology Labs – Inquiry-based
    • The AP Biology Redesigned Exam
    • Free Response Grading
    • Incentive-based Learning Strategies
    • Sharing Strategies to Help Students Grow Academically
    • Sharing of AP Biology Material Teaching Strategies and Activities
    • Review for the AP Biology exam
    • Transitioning to the New Curriculum framework