This in-person course is designed to maximize the learner experience, providing relevant AP content and pedagogy through meaningful engagement—all focused on best practices for preparing your AP students for success. This class is designed both for new AP Environmental teachers with 3 or fewer years experience and for more experienced teachers as well.  The intensive four-day course will provide a deep dive into the entire AP Environmental Science (APES) curriculum and examine different paths through the required course content.  Each day, important concepts will be discussed and related specifically to APES free-response questions, and participants will perform hands-on laboratories associated with these concepts. The major goal is to expose participants to both content and labs and activities important to teaching a successful APES course. In addition, new AP resources will be discussed. Participants will be expected to spend some time on homework for this Institute, which could include working up lab data, reading lab activities, and, for all teachers, preparing a course syllabus or outline that correlates to the APES course description.  Participants are encouraged to share electronic materials/favorite web sites as some class time will be reserved for this purpose. Participants should have their school calendar for the coming year and a scientific calculator of some type available. Participants will be expected to have read and answered the 2022 Free Response Questions before the Institute begins.

Participants will be emailed a set of documents by the instructor to facilitate the class. Some of the pages from these documents should be printed out ahead of time to facilitate having a hard copy to work with. Participants will need a copy of their school calendar for the coming year, a scientific calculator of some type, a laptop computer or iPad with internet access and a spreadsheet program (Google sheets or excel), and pens or pencils. A significant amount of time will be spent discussing and analyzing the new Course and Exam Description. Time will be included in the Institute for participants to begin planning or to revise syllabi for the following year. Participants will be expected to have read and answered the 2019 Free Response Questions before the Institute begins. The instructor will incorporate time for participants to share “best practices” and discussions about the CED and various approaches to teaching the class. It expected that the College Board will mail each participant the new Course and Exam Description (CED) notebook and a set of the 2019 FRQ’s with scoring standards and student samples.

Anne Soos retired from The Hun School of Princeton in June 2018. While at Hun, she taught AP Environmental Science, Honors Chemistry and AP Chemistry. She has taught APES since the program was introduced in 1998 and has taught biology and AP Biology. Before joining the Hun faculty, she was Head of the Upper School at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton, NJ, and had served as Science Department Chair. Anne’s retirement in 2018 marked the end of a 50-year teaching career. She has been an AP reader for biology and, until her retirement, was a reader for environmental science. As an AP Consultant, Anne has presented several one-day AP workshops and, in addition to Lewes, has led both in-person and online AP summer institutes at Rensselaerville, NY; Goucher College, Towson, MD;  La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA; Henry Jackson High School in Everett WA, and Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ. Anne has edited several APES texts and review books for various publishers.  In her spare time, besides gardening, Anne is an AARP Tax Aide, and a board member of the Princeton Adult School and the Princeton Environmental and Site Plan Commissions.  Her class on “Global Change”, for the Princeton Senior Center Evergreen Forum, was first presented in the Spring of 2021, and will be repeated in 2022.  Anne is a member of the panel for the class “Science in the News”, also at Evergreen.