• Course: European History
  
• Dates: July 19-22
• Instructor: Sue Chaney Gilmore, Martin Luther King Magnet High School, Nashville, TN, email - Sue.Gilmore@mnps.org - Participant Letter

Twenty-four years of experience with AP European History has provided strategies for Sue Gilmore to share with other teachers as she does with her students. She has participated in the Readings for European History, presented frequently at workshops for College Board as well as other educational groups, and is a contributing author to The Holocaust and Other Genocides (Vanderbilt Press, 2002) and a forthcoming Amsco review book for AP World History. Her teaching awards include Metro Nashville Teacher of the Year and Middle Tennessee Teacher of the Year in 2008. She currently teaches AP English Literature and Composition, AP World History, and AP European History in Nashville.


• Included:
  
• Materials (Textbooks, Assessment Resources)
  
• Lunch & Snacks
• Emphasis:
• Setting up the syllabus for fall, 2010
• Using AP Central and the Performance Reports to guide the syllabus
• Examining strategies to deliver complex content in areas suggested by participants
• Constructing meaningful multiple choice questions and prompts
• Analyzing past tests
• Grading the pesky DBQ
• Checking out resources which can illustrate relevance of European history to students
• Exploring possibilities for alternative assessments