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OCS Advanced Placement PLC

OCS Advanced Placement PLC. September 4, 2014 Northside High School Room 208. What is the Goal of the Advanced Placement Program at your school?. Please refer to your Edmodo site and submit your thoughts. What are “The BIG Four” when looking to Increase Student Success in Advanced Courses?.

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OCS Advanced Placement PLC

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  1. OCS Advanced Placement PLC September 4, 2014 Northside High School Room 208

  2. What is the Goal of the Advanced Placement Program at your school? • Please refer to your Edmodo site and submit your thoughts

  3. What are “The BIG Four” when looking to Increase Student Success in Advanced Courses? • Expectations throughout K-12 • Increased Rigor and Support • Advanced Course work needs to become more imbedded within everyone’s thought • All students should be held to high expectations • **Students Should be Involved in a productive struggle**

  4. II. Professional Development • Begin the discussion between schools about Vertical teaming • Plan for vertical teaming with the ELA/Math/Sci/SS teachers who teach AP with those that do not at various grade levels. • Using Data to Drive the Design of your Advanced Placement Program • Professional Development on “How to Answer” the following for teachers in Grades 6-11: • DBQ (document based Question) • LBQ (literacy based Question) • RBQ (research based Question)

  5. Training for all AP Teachers on a rotating schedule • Literacy Training for teams of teachers especially middle and high school teachers

  6. III. Vertical Experiences • Set the stage early • Begin in the Elementary schools and utilized those professionals that can assist with differentiation • Use higher Order Questioning • Increase Engagement in subject matter • Alignment of Curriculum • Begin using Walk throughs for k-12 (allows for connections to be seen) • Implement Lesson studies at the school (between teachers)

  7. IV. Communication and Collaboration • Horizontal and Vertical Teaming (District and School) • Multiple Stakeholders • Create PLC to discuss strategies (school or district) • Have an Advanced Studies Learning Night • Have subject area chairs meet from grades 6-12 in feeder schools.

  8. How Can We Build an Effective AP Program at Our School? • -What are our goals for Advanced Placement? Why? • -What Strategies can we use to accomplish these goals? • -How can/do we create buy in from everyone at the school? • -What data can be monitored to determine effectiveness? • -Who will monitor this data? • -Who can help reflect on the effectiveness of your program?

  9. Teacher Characteristics and Practices and the effect they have on student AP Exam Performance. • What should the Characteristics of an Instructor in an Advanced Placement Class be? • 2. What should the learning environment look like (school context)? • 3. What does the teacher have control over in their AP program and what does the teacher not have control of ? • 4. What does the content coverage look like in the Advanced Placement Classroom look like? • 5. What test specific Instructional Practices would you expect to observe in an AP classroom?

  10. Next Steps….. *October 2, 2014- Core Teaching Strategies, Review of Personal Diagnostic Report*October 28, 2014- Targeted Strategies*November 18,2014- How to build a timeline for your school to follow*December 9, 2014-What can we do to assist all of our students be more successful in AP? What would a secondary Pre-AP program look like? What would a District AP Council look like? What issues do AP courses face here in OCS?

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