Advanced Educational Concepts

North Georgia Workshop Registration

Friday, September 29, 2023

About Us

Advanced Educational Concepts is dedicated to the highest level of professional development for High School and Middle School teachers. We specialize in highly focused workshops for teachers of writing, teachers of Advanced Placement© courses , and for schools wishing to implement Vertical Curriculum Design Teams. Our consultants leading these Fall workshops for AP© teachers have vast experience in the development of and/or grading of their respective course.

NORTH GEORGIA WORKSHOP INFORMATION

The North Georgia Workshop will be held on September 29, 2023 between 8:30 and 3:00 at the address below.  Detailed workshop descriptions can be found below. The Registration fee of $165.00 covers classroom-ready materials, a light breakfast, snack breaks, and a catered lunch.

If you have any questions please contact us at advancededconcepts@gmail.com

WHERE:
Forsyth Central High School
131 Almon C. Hill Dr
Cumming, GA 30040

WHEN:
Friday, September 29
8:30 am to 3:00 pm

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

AP Human Geography

The AP Human Geography one day workshop will focus on interactive best practices to engage students.  The morning session will address how to integrate the Course Skills with content and ideas for including fieldwork in the course.  In the afternoon session participants will work through free response questions, including how to break down the FRQ verbs for students.

AP World History

This workshop for AP World History will primarily focus on creating lessons that simultaneously cover required content and build skills required for the AP World History Exam. The emphasis will be on lessons that utilize primary and secondary sources.

Participants will walk away with strategies and materials for creating lessons aligned with the new course as well as instruction for preparing their students for the SAQs, LEQ and DBQ

Our workshop leaders have vast experience with the AP Exam and will keep participants up to date with the latest information about how to write and grade essays, explanations of the rubric items, as well as teaching students to go beyond “gaming” the rubric to writing quality historical essays.

AP US History

This workshop is for AP US History teachers wishing to increase their skills in teaching the writing portion of the AP Exam. It will focus on using primary and secondary sources in the classroom.

Our workshop leaders have vast experience with the AP Exam and will keep participants up to date with the latest information about how to write and grade essays, explanations of the rubric items, as well as teaching students to go beyond “gaming” the rubric to writing quality historical essays.

Consultants’ Professional Bios

Louisa Moffitt
Louisa MoffittAP United States History

Louisa Moffitt has been teaching AP US History at Marist School for the past thirty‐three years. She has been a Reader and Table Leader for the AP US History Exam and served as the Assistant Chief Reader for that test. Louisa is currently a question leader for the AP U.S. History Alternate exam. She has also worked as a College Board consultant and has taught AP US summer institutes for the past twenty-three years. Her work for College Board and ETS include item writing for the SAT II, the NAEP Exam, the PRAXIS Exam, and she has served as a member of the Test Development Committee for the AP US History Exam.

Jonathan Henderson
Jonathan HendersonAP World History

Jonathan Henderson is a member of the College Board’s Curriculum and Instruction Team for the current AP World History exam redesign and wrote portions of the Workshop Handbook distributed to participants at College Board World History Summer Institutes and Workshops. He has trained hundreds of AP World History teachers in College Board Institutes and for the Georgia Department of Education. Jonathan studied history at the graduate level at Cambridge University, taught in Central Asia as a US State Department Fellow, and in 2007 was a Fulbright Scholar to China. He has been teaching AP World History since 2002 and been a reader for the exam since 2008, where he has served as a Table Leader, Sample Selector, and Question Leader at the reading. He has edited and written material for several of the major AP World History textbooks, and coauthored Fast Track to a Five: Preparing for the AP World History Examination. In 2008 Jonathan served on a College Board committee in New York to review and edit the Curriculum Framework for the course rewrite. He is a contributor to the forthcoming The Sea in World History.

Jennifer Garner
Jennifer GarnerAP Human Geography

Jennifer Garner has been an AP Human Geography teacher since 2004. She has participated in the AP Exam Reading for 17 years in various capacities including Exam Leader, Question Leader and Table Leader.  She has written exam items for the AP Exam and headed the team which updated the iScore5 Exam Review App multiple choice items to reflect the new exam requirements in 2019.   During the past 2 years, she has worked with various publishing companies to update AP Human Geography textbooks and resources to match the new CED.   Mrs. Garner’s experience in leading professional development is extensive including being an AP Consultant, leading Georgia DOE Workshops in AP Human Geography each year since 2008, running workshops in writing skills based assessments and presenting at the Forsyth County EdSummitt. Mrs. Garner is also active with the National Council for Geographic Education, presenting twice at their national conference and hosting multiple geography themed webinars.

Registration

Refunds/Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made by participant up to 7 days prior to the workshop will result in a full refund. Cancellations made within 7 days of the workshop will not be refunded. Cancellations made by Advanced Educational Concepts will result in a full refund to participant.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT OUR WORKSHOPS FOR AP© TEACHERS

Some of our workshops are for teachers of Advanced Placement© high school courses. Please know they are not offered as introductions to Advanced Placement© courses nor are they replacements for College Board Professional Development. We strongly encourage teachers to attend College Board Summer Institutes or one-day workshops as their first step in AP© training. We do not duplicate College Board workshop agendas but supplement them by providing highly focused professional development experiences that might not otherwise be available. Our presenters will assume you have already attended a College Board training and that you have a basic knowledge of the fundamentals of the course. If you have not done so, please follow this link and register for a College Board Institute.

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