AP Seminar APSI Course Agenda
Consultant Aaron Fuller
DAY 1: Understanding AP Seminar
- The AP Capstone Program and the AP Seminar Course
- AP Seminar curriculum framework
- Deciding on course themes and topics
- The End-of-Course Exam Part A (EOC A)
- What is an argument?
- Analyzing arguments
DAY 2: Performance Task 1: Team Project and Presentation
- Building community
- Encouraging student questions
- Developing research questions
- Evaluating the credibility of sources
- Finding texts and sources
- Evaluating multiple perspectives
- Performance Task 1: The Individual Research Report (IRR)
- Performance Task 1: The Team Multimedia Presentation (TMP)
DAY 3: Performance Task 2 and Beyond
- Performance Task 2: The Individual Written Argument (IWA)
- Scheduling the Performance Tasks
- Developing your argument
- College Board plagiarism policy and artificial intelligence acceptable use
- Performance Task 2: The Individual Multimedia Presentation (IMP)
- The End-of-Course Exam Part B (EOC B)
- Designing your course: individual work time with consultation as requested
DAY 4: Planning your course
- Planning your course:
- Building your skills sequence
- Selecting and sequencing texts and sources
- Unit development
- Designing your course: individual work time with consultation as requested
- Gallery walk: perusing colleagues’ initial course plans
- Syllabus Development: simplifying AP Seminar’s Curricular Requirements
- AP Seminar support, resources, and next steps
