- Course: World History
- Dates: July 19-22
- Instructor: Bill Strickland, East Grand Rapids High School, East Grand Rapids, MI, email - bstrickl@egrps.org - Participant Letter
Bill has taught English for 20 years, 5 in California and 15 in East Grand Rapids, MI.
He has taught AP World History since the course began in 2001. A graduate of Amherst College, he earned his teaching certificate and M.Ed. from San Francisco State Univ.
He was a member of the committee that wrote the World History and Geography standards for Michigan high schools.
He is an editor for World History Connected, a contributing author of “Teaching World History in the 21st Century, 2nd Ed.,” and the author of several textbook ancillaries.
He has served as a Reader, Table Leader, and Sample Selector of the AP World History exams since 2004.
He has also presented at the AP Annual (National) Conference, as well as numerous AP Workshops and Summer Institutes.
He currently serves on the Curriculum Development and Assessment Committee (CDAC) which is in charge of Redesigned AP World History course beginning in 2011-2012.
- Included:
- Materials (Textbooks, Assessment Resources)
- Lunch & Snacks
- Emphasis:
- “Philosophy” of World History (aka “How to teach a course you never took yourself!”)
- Creating a syllabus and submitting it for the AP Audit
- How to teach essay writing. Detailed guides for the DBQ, CCOT, and Comparative Essays.
- Sharing classroom activities that will provide students with higher order thinking skills and that will move from teacher-centered to a student-centered class
- Review activities that help students organize 10,000 years of knowledge.
- Preview of the upcoming “2012 and Beyond” Redesigned AP World History Course