Agenda – Psychology

Advanced Placement Institute- Daily Agenda Psycology

Pre-Session:

  • Participants receive an opening email, welcome letter, and survey- get excited!
  • Objectives for the week and tentative agenda
  • Digital Materials to make a copy of
  • Participant Folder
  • Textbooks for the week
  • Video clips and Websites
  • Daily Slides
  • Needs survey:
    • What do you want out of this workshop
    • Which goals are most important to you
    • Experienced or new to AP Psychology and teaching
    • AP classroom (audit) access
    • The schedule their school follows for them to teach the course
    • New curriculum familiarity

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Day 1: 

  • Introduction and icebreakers (45 minutes)
      • Name- get to know each other, but make it psych
      • School
      • Years of teaching
      • Years of teaching psychology/AP psychology
      • Weird fact
      • Two truths and some assumptions
      • Other activities you can do in your classroom to break the ice in a psychological way!
  • Materials, Agenda, and Objectives for the day
  • Shared resources Folder 
  • The Elephant in the room and why I am thrilled to introduce it!
  • AP Psychology by the numbers (15 minutes)
  • Course Overview (1.5 hour)
      • APA and IPI initiatives
      • What is the same and what is different in 2024/2025
      • Course Exam description
        • Overview of the basics
        • Examination of scope and sequence
        • Course at a glance and other elements
        • Read each of the skills and discuss what they mean
  • Read each unit guide and discuss how they relate to the skills and objectives of the course
        • What gets covered
        • Try a walk through
  • Creating a scope and sequence that works for you (1 hour)
      • Unit 0: to be or not to be?
      • Sample schedules and more
      • Note: we will continue to add to this over the next 4 days!
  • Exam Overview (1 hour)
      • Note: we will really dig into this over the next few days!
        • The multiple choice and some examples and coding
        • The AAQ overview
        • The EBQ overview
  • The AP Audit (1 hour)
      • everyone audits
      • Access and how to
      • Access to AP Classroom
  • Exit Ticket/Takeaways

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Day 2:

  • Go over exit ticket and takeaways
      • Note changes I am making based on this feedback
  • Materials, Agenda, and Objectives for the day
    • Shared resources Folder 
  • AP Classroom Overview (1 hour)
  • Secure documents
  • Resources
  • How to
  • Expanding Opportunities(20 minutes)
      • Discuss curriculum adjustments and instructional strategies that will help to recruit and retain underrepresented students (Tools in your resource page)
      • Recruitment, Placement in AP Classes, Fall Registration, AP Classes look like regular classes
  • Unit 0 Overview (30 minutes) 
      • Note guide
      • Vetting rubric
      • Scope and sequence
      • Content and skills
      • Difficult concepts
      • Activities and labs
      • Scaffolding towards the exam
      • Bell Ringers for skills
  • Unit 1 Deep Dive (1.5 hours)
      • CED overview
      • Note Guide
      • Scope and sequence
      • Content and skills
      • Difficult concepts
      • Activities and labs
      • Scaffolding towards the exam
  • AP classroom resources
  • The EBQ (2 hours)
      • Folder materials
      • Where to get sources
  • Differentiated time (45 minutes)
  • Takeaways and exit ticket

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Day 3: 

  • Go over exit ticket and takeaways
      • Note changes I am making based on this feedback
  • Materials, Agenda, and Objectives for the day
    • Shared resources Folder 
  • Unit 2 Deep Dive (1.5 hours)
      • CED overview
      • Note Guide
      • Scope and sequence
      • Content and skills
      • Difficult concepts
      • Activities and labs
  • Scaffolding towards the exam
      • AP classroom resources
  • The AAQ (1.5 hours) 
      • Question, rubrics, samples and ore
      • Where to get sources
  • Written test scaffolding (30 minutes)
  • Unit 3 Deep Dive (1.5 hours)
      • CED overview
      • Note guide
      • Scope and sequence
      • Content and skills
      • Difficult concepts
      • Activities and labs
      • Scaffolding towards the exam
      • AP classroom resources
  • Differentiated time (45 minutes)
  • Takeaways and exit ticket

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Day 4:

  • Go over exit ticket and takeaways
      • Note changes I am making based on this feedback
  • Materials, Agenda, and Objectives for the day
    • Shared resources Folder 
  • Unit 4 Deep Dive (1.5 hours)
      • CED overview
      • Scope and sequence
      • Content and skills
      • Difficult concepts
      • Activities and labs
      • Scaffolding towards the exam
      • AP classroom resources
  • Unit 5 Deep Dive (1.5 hours)
      • CED overview
      • Scope and sequence
      • Content and skills
      • Difficult concepts
      • Activities and labs
  • Scaffolding towards the exam
  • AP classroom resources
  • Assessments and Grading (20 minutes)
      • Assessments
      • Grading
  • AP Review (20 minutes)
  • Exam Data Unit/Exam Data Post AP Test  (15 minutes)
  • Post Exam (20 minutes)
  • External Supports/The AP Reading (15 minutes)
  • Differentiated time (45 minutes)
  • Takeaways and exit ticket