This workshop will focus on the teaching of psychology as a science. The workshop will include an intensive review of the content of the AP Psychology examination; the released multiple choice and essay questions will be discussed in detail. Additional topics will include teaching strategies and resources, demonstrations for teaching psychology, important experiments and studies in psychology, test taking techniques for the AP Psychology exam, and using a rubric to write and score essay questions. Participants are urged to bring a few of their favorite lesson plans.

Day 1
Participant introductions
Topics desired by participants.
Review of syllabus & expectations
Instructor delivers a lesson for feedback & evaluation. (SDT)
Five challenge questions

Name the psychologist activity.

Equity and access to AP classes.
Overview of the Couse and Exam Description CB Binder. (why early registration)
Discussion of 96 major psychologists and 30 important experiments.
Discussion of AP Test and scoring
Class structure to maximize student success on AP Test
Evolution of AP Test (multiple choice & essay)
Practice scoring selective essays, rubrics & sample essays.
Detail examination of MC released exams and all essay questions

Information presented for a “best practice” lesson by each participant.
Develop lesson plans (start today goes all week) that address teaching topic with skills CB Binder
Confusing terms in the course.
Review of questions; discuss distractions, hints & hindrances.
Cooperative activity preparing exam questions for the classroom

Day 2
Using personal progress checks (CB Binder)
Participants will design a rubric for essay questions.
Graphic illustrations on essay preparation.

Discussion of daily teaching methodology with participant feedback
Demonstration lessons for research methods
Demonstration lessons for statistics.
Handouts on prominent terms.
Major texts, organizations and resources for the classroom
Demonstration lessons for developmental psychology.
Demonstration lessons for sensation and perception
Discuss of Genie tape /artwork

Review of student presentation.

Day 3
Video on Pavlov & Watson
Half of today’s agenda Demonstration lessons for learning, memory, cognition and social psychology.
Handouts related focused on Rescorla & Plomin’s research.
Demo lesson on aggression from activity handbook.
Methods for integrating Candid Camera clips for lessons.
Group feedback on issues, concerns & practice lessons.

Day 4/5
Content area handouts according to CB Binder.
Participant demos and input for best lesson per content area.
Demonstration lessons for biological influences on behavior, personality, clinical, emotion and motivation and health

Teaching into Psychology: Advice From the Experts (book by Robert Sternberg)

Final wrap-up:

Brief review of major messages for AP Psychology.
Networking with colleagues.
Open forum for questions, concerns, comments.

Alan Feldman is a teacher of AP Psychology, History, and Mathematics at Glen Rock High School in Glen Rock, NJ. Since 1993, Alan has taught dozens of one-day, weekly and month-long AP Psychology workshops for the College Board. He also has instructed or co-instructed psychology workshops at the University of Northern Kentucky, Fordham, Stanford, Texas A&M, Rutgers, and others. Formerly an adjunct professor of psychology at Middlesex County College, Alan currently is an adjunct professor at Bergen Community County College. He has been an AP reader continuously since the exam’s inception in 1992 and a table leader since 2003. He is author of over 50 articles on the teaching of psychology and wrote the AP Psychology teachers’ course perspective for AP Central. He is a former member of the AP psychology test development committee (2001-2005) as well as a recipient of the 1994 Moffet Teaching Award for high school psychology and the 2003 Princeton University Distinguished Secondary Teaching award. He has a graduate degree in psychology from Teachers’ College, Columbia University. His hobbies are table tennis, biking, reading and collecting psychology videotapes and DVDs.