Courses
Art HISTORY
This institute will address issues related to beginning, teaching and maintaining a successful AP* Art History course. It will embrace art historical content and methodology as well as exploring strategies designed to allow for student involvement and learning. It will be designed to meet the needs of New to Experienced AP Art History teachers.
With the AP Art History Redesign scheduled to take effect in 2016, we will spend at least 20% of our week exploring the new course content, the new AP Test, and working with numerous strategies and resources that will help us to prepare to teach the redesigned curriculum. We will focus particularly on strategies that will help our students to be successful.
AGENDA
- Introductions: Who we are—what we hope to gain from the institute
- AP Courses in general and AP Art History in particular
- The 2014 AP Art History Exam—analysis, continuing issues, new directions
- Structures for Effective Learning: Strategies to help teens become successful students
- Effective Teaching: Engaging Students--Varieties of Teaching Strategies
- Essay Writing challenges and strategies—The AP Art History Reading/Scoring
- Pacing—The syllabus
- Resources: Help and support for teachers and students
- College Board Materials: 20th Century Feminism; Thematic and Cross-Cultural Approaches
- AP Central—Teachers’ Guide
- Bibliography
- Technology: For us… but, more importantly, for our students
- Using technology in our lectures and designing assignments for ‘21st Century Learners'
- Choosing a text/texts: Exploration of what is available and which will work best for each of us
- Incorporating works from Beyond the European Tradition—especially in light of the new 'Canon.'
- Museum/Fieldtrip Possibilities
- Preparing for the Exam—Strategies for Review
Instructor:
Alison Napier
Alison Cowand Napier was born in Norfolk, Virginia. After completing her work at Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1990, she entered Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Washington and Lee University in June 1994. After working in Atlanta as a paralegal at Perimeter credit, LLC. for two years, she returned to Norfolk, Virginia in 1996. At that time, she enrolled in Old Dominion University, receiving a second Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with a minor in Secondary Education in May 1999. She worked as a Spanish teacher at Booker T. Washington High School from 1999 to 2001 and at Norfolk Collegiate School from 2001 to 2002. In 2001, she entered Old Dominion University as a graduate student. In 2002, she began working at Floyd E. Kellam High School, Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she is still currently employed teaching studio art and art history. She received a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics with an emphasis in Teaching English as a Second Language in 2004. At that time, she began teaching evening classes in English as a Second Language at Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 2009, she received an annual appointment as a reader for the national Advanced Placement Art History exams given by the College Board, Princeton, New Jersey. She entered Old Dominion University a third time in 2009, seeking a Master of Arts Degree in Humanities. In 2010, she left her position at Tidewater Community College to begin teaching Advanced Placement Art History online for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Virtual Virginia Program, a position she still holds in addition to her work at Kellam High School. In 2013, she was hired as an AP Art History Consultant by the College Board. In May 2014, she completed her master’s thesis Las Vegas: Utopia of Escape for Everyman, and graduated with honors from Old Dominion University with a Master of Arts in Humanities with an emphasis in Visual Studies. Currently, she is chairing the AP Art History curriculum redesign committees for both Virginia Beach City Public Schools and the Virginia Department of Education’s Virtual Virginia courses. She is a member of Sigma Delta Pi National Spanish Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor Society, the National Education Association, and the Virginia Beach Education Association.