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HSED 515 - Strategies for Teaching High School Advanced Placement in Content Areas

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: Acceptance into Mass Insight Education Summer Institute
This course is designed provide high school teachers of Advanced Placement courses with the most current content and innovative teaching strategies in their discipline. The course will examine current AP frameworks, instructional design and assessment. Current content in the discipline will be the cornerstone for the course. Participants will engage in hands-on unit planning, evaluation of syllabi and textbooks, labs, analysis and reflection of other activities specific to their content area. The course includes in-and out-of-class assignments. In addition, pre- and post-workshop assignments may also be required. Examples of course assessment include but are not limited to: presentations; instructional unit plans; and/or other assessments specific to your content area. Course sections will be offered for teachers of each of the following AP courses: Biology, Calculus, Capstone, Chemistry, Computer Science, English Language & Composition, English Literature & Composition, European History, Environmental Science, Human Geography, Physics, Spanish, Statistics and U.S. History. Pre-AP training sections may also be offered in: Biology, Chemistry, English Language Arts, Mathematics and Physics. HSED 515 is a five-day intensive course offered through a partnership of Mass Insight Education AP Summer Institute and Bridgewater State University. For more information about this course and associated fees, please contact the College of Graduate Studies. Repeatable in different content areas and levels (new or experienced AP teacher): may earn a maximum of 12 credits. Offered summer session. Note: Students may NOT receive additional credit for repeating the same MIE Summer Institute content area course level in subsequent MIE Institutes.