Episode #12 - Tony interviews Andy about collaboration & their first year teaching APWH together.  Scroll Down for Show Notes & Links

Episode #12 - Tony interviews Andy about collaboration & their first year teaching APWH together. Both have previous experience teaching APWH at different schools, hence take a peek behind the curtain and listen to the approaches discussed. Topics of discussion include: expectations of a new school, AP Comparative Government, the uniqueness of 1200-1450 & building reading stamina in the beginning of the year, “setting the stage” in regards to working together via our personalities & establishing a trusting relationship via “the middle path,” creating a mock trial on the ottoman empire, the fall off in HW in the Spring, all APWH units & timeframes, & reviewing for the APWH Exam.
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00:00 Intro

02:28 Introduction Andy

04:38 Expectations of our school

07:04 Our specific situation and the danger of speaking with “certantites”

08:55 Andy’s experience with teaching different AP Social Studies classes

11:46 Breaking down AP Comparative Government and Politics

15:35 How our personalities mix with working together

20:14 Past criticism of AP US History as a “trivial pursuit contest” pre 2017

21:56 Our first meeting in the previous June

24:55 The two, two, two rule27:34 1200-1450 CE Reflection

31:16 The uniqueness of 1200-1450 and trying to build student reading stamina in the beginning of the year

38:42 Andy reflects on changing from Strayer to OER at a previous school

  • Students motivation with notes can change and grading notes/outlines

42:06 The importance of “setting the stage” in regards to working together for the first units and establishing a trusting relationship via “the middle path”

  • Our summative assessments for unit zero and 1200-1450 CE
  • The benefit of collecting student LEQ outlines and writing essays by hand
  • Song Dynasty Board Game discussion

48:43 Using primary sources with unit zero

  • Blue City, Jodhpur, India – Caste traditions & desert adaptation.

55:00 1450-1750 Reflection

01:00:36 The Mock Trial on the Ottoman Empire

01:16:34 1750-1900 Reflection

  • The two for one technique

01:19:37 The Revolutions Documentary- Message us via our website if you are interested in acquiring this lesson

  • Different interpretations of Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of a revolution
    • Incubation stage, Symptomatic stage, Crisis stage, & Convalescence stage is the same as Old Order, Moderate stage, Radical Stage, & Tyrant/Thermidor Stage

01:24:50 The Fall off in Homework

01:26:40 Spiraling the themes and “topics that straddle the units” - The foundational work will pay off to connect themes in different units/timeframes

01:27:55 - More challenging scores on rubrics in Semester 2

Our AP grading scale curves

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01:31:15 1900 to present reflection

01:37:14 Reviewing for the exam

01:40:48 - Mind Map/Sketch Notes Review Project

01:42:13 End with a Positive Story

01:44:11 Outro