Stony Brook University: July 6-10
Stony Brook Southampton: August 3-7
Registration is Now Closed
Just one week of your summer at Stony Brook can prepare you to teach Advanced Placement Program courses in Biology, Calculus AB, English Literature & Composition, Environmental Science or U.S. Government & Politics. These workshops are taught by experienced teachers in cooperation with Stony Brook University’s Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education and The College Board.
When and Where
Workshops will take place on the campus of Stony Brook University during
the week of July 6-10, 2009, and on the campus of Stony Brook Southampton during the week of August 3-7, 2009. They will meet Monday through Thursday,
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and on Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Tuition
Tuition for each workshop is $650, ($675 if registering for the Biology
or Environmental Science Workshops) which includes workshop materials. Textbooks, if any, are included. We do not accept purchase orders as payment.
In-Service Credit
Stony Brook University does not grant credit for these workshops.
Persons wishing to earn in-service credit are advised to secure prior
approval from their school district.
Registration
To ensure your enrollment, the form and tuition payment must be received
by June 19, 2009. Because registration is limited to 30 students per
workshop, students will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations must be received by July 1, 2009, or the applicant will
be held responsible for tuition, and housing fees if applicable. The
University reserves the right to cancel in June any workshop because
of insufficient enrollment or for any other reason.
Housing
If you require on-campus housing, please
indicate this on your workshop registration form. Additional housing registration forms will be available on this website in April.
Parking
All registrants will receive information regarding parking locations upon
registration.
Campus Location
Stony Brook is located about 60 miles east of Manhattan on the wooded
North Shore of Long Island, and Stony Brook Southampton is located 85 miles east of Manhattan right on the Shinnecock Bay.
Contact Information
If you have any questions regarding these workshops, please contact
Dina Brennan:
E-mail: dfbrennan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Phone: (631) 632-6880
Fax: (631) 632-9898
Course Offerings
Biology (offered at Stony Brook University)
Three key concerns for all AP Program Biology teachers are: implementing
the required laboratory component, evaluating students,
and covering the entire curriculum. This workshop will address each
of these concerns with special emphasis on the laboratory component.
Each workshop member will work in a team to prepare a comprehensive
curriculum and schedule. This schedule will be for the
2008-2009 school year and will be based on each participant’s school
calendar and textbook. Attention will be given to grading and developing
standards for the free response section of the AP Program
exam. Along with a lab partner, each participant will prepare and
carry out most of the AP Program laboratory exercises.
About the Instructor
Richard Kurtz teaches AP Program Biology and science research at
South Side High School. He has been a faculty consultant for evaluating
the AP Program exam in biology. He has conducted teacher workshops
on “hands-on” science activities for students. Mr. Kurtz has been
awarded a number of science fellowships to conduct basic research in
biology. Author and contributor to a number of articles on science
teaching and insect biology, he has a B.S. and M.S. from the University
of Waterloo in Canada.
Calculus AB (offered at Stony Brook University)
This workshop will explore major topics in the Calculus AB curriculum
with particular attention to differential equations and slopefields.
Slopefields, formerly a BC topic, is now part of the AP Program Calculus
AB syllabus and was first included in the 2004 AB exam. Details of
recent exams will be presented along with the grading procedures used.
Participants will create their own lesson plans and AP Program-type
questions. It is essential that all participants bring a graphing calculator
that they are familiar with, especially if they have used it in class. The TI-89 will be used to demonstrate common techniques. TI-89’s will be available
to the participants during the workshop.
About the Instructor
Dr. Maxine Lifshitz is chair of the Math Department at Friends
Academy in Locust Valley, New York. Dr. Lifshitz is the author of
AP Calculus AB/BC, recently published by Amsco. She has taught AP
Program Calculus in its different forms for more than 30 years and
has conducted summer institutes in the teaching of calculus at Stony
Brook University for the past ten years. As Math Consultant to The
College Board, Dr. Lifshitz has given many workshops in teaching AP
Program Calculus AB and BC. She has also presented at CHAT,
Limacon in Nassau County, and at both regional and national ‘T3
(Teachers Teaching with Technology), and NCTM conferences.
English Literature & Composition (offered at Stony Brook University)
An overview of the basic structure and content of an Advanced
Placement Program English Literature and Composition course.
Particular attention is paid to strategies for teaching poetry and
fiction, teaching non-canonical works, practice in grading student
responses from previous AP Program exams and designing AP
Program exam questions. Workshop members are required to
give a presentation to the group and to prepare a course description
that will become part of a portfolio project. Participants will
be asked to read an assigned text before the course begins.
About the Instructor
A teacher for 27 years, Edward Schmieder is English Department
Chair at the Sayville Schools Grades 6 – 12 in Sayville, NY and former
English Department Head and teacher of Advanced Placement
English Literature and Composition at Garden City High School in
Garden City, New York. He received his BA, MA and M Phil degrees
from New York University. He has been a College Board consultant
and workshop leader since 1992 and presented AP Program workshops
across the United States and abroad. From 1997 to 2001, he
was a member of the AP Program English Test Development
Committee. Mr. Schmieder currently teaches AP Program summer
institutes at SUNY Stony Brook and Manhattan College. He has
served as an AP Program English Literature examination reader
from 1993 to 2001 and as the Examination Leader for the AP
Program English Literature Alternate Exam. Mr. Schmieder was
also a member of the GED English Essay Test Development
Committee for the American Council on Education. During the 2003-04 school year, he served as the president of the Long Island Language
Arts Council (LILAC). As a consultant for Measurement Inc., he
evaluated high school curricula for the State Education Department
in 2005-06. Mr. Schmieder currently is a member of the SAT II
English Literature Test Development Committee.
Environmental Science (offered at Stony Brook Southampton)
Environmental science is a genuinely interdisciplinary subject, incorporating all the science disciplines as well as math, politics, sociology, ethics, and economics. This makes the AP Environmental Science (APES) curriculum both challenging and exciting to teach. This workshop is designed for beginning as well as experienced APES teachers and it is intended to assist participants in developing and teaching a successful APES course. In this session, participants will learn about the development and grading of the AP exam; discuss and evaluate teaching resources, including textbooks; and gain experience with several different kinds of lessons, labs, and other student-centered activities. Through reading primary and classic literature, designing experiments, engaging in inquiry-based activities, and collecting data in the field and laboratory, students will come to understand how the process of science works, and how decisions about environmental issues are made. Hands-on activities are used to engage students and help students develop analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving abilities, fundamental skills necessary for this course. Cemeteries, power plants, fields, forest, ponds, streams, coasts, and school campuses are all rich resources for inquiry-based projects. Workshop participants will be expected to draft a syllabus for a year-long AP Environmental Science course.
About the Instructor
Jim Serach is a science teacher at The Lawrenceville School where he holds the endowed Aldo Leopold Chair for Distinguished Teaching of Environmental Science and Ethics. Before that, Jim was a science teacher at Lawrence Academy (Groton, MA) for twenty years. He has been teaching Advanced Placement Environmental Science since 1997. Jim has taught biology, chemistry, and a number of electives including courses in microbiology, geology, tropical biology, marine science and limnology. He received a B.A. from SUNY Potsdam (1980) and a M.S. in Biology from the University of New Mexico (1985) with an emphasis on the physiological ecology of bats. He holds a New York State teaching certification in biology, chemistry, and general science from State University College in Buffalo, New York. Jim partially completed a Ph.D. program in biology at Boston University. Presently, Jim is involved with the A.P. Environmental Science curriculum as a workshop consultant, and he is currently serving on the A.P. Environmental Science Test Development Committee. He has served at the annual reading as a reader, a table leader and question leader. Jim has designed several tropical field study courses at Lawrence Academy and The Lawrenceville School.
U.S. Government & Politics (offered at Stony Brook University)
This workshop provides participants with an overview of the basic
structure and content necessary for an Advanced Placement Program
course in U.S. Government and Politics. The instructor will focus on
the development of a course outline and syllabus through the development
of course objectives. Emphasis will be placed on teaching strategies,
learning activities and exam preparation. An analysis of past AP
Program examinations will be included as well as the standards established
for the grading of the annual exams. A major portion of the
course is devoted to the development of a U.S. Government and Politics
course by each participant including the resources necessary for the
implementation of such a course.
About the Instructor
Barbara McAdorey is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University
where she has been involved with the development of, and currently
teaches in the History Department Graduate Teacher Certification
Program in Social Studies. Professor McAdorey also holds positions
at Suffolk County Community College and St. Joseph College in
Patchogue, N.Y. A former member of the test development committee
for the AP Program Government and Politics course, she is currently a
table leader at the annual exam reading in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. As a national consultant for the College Board in the following
AP Program Programs: U.S. Government, Comparative
Government, U.S. History and European History, she conducts AP
Program Summer Institutes in these academic areas throughout the
country. Professor McAdorey teaches AP Program workshops and conferences
both in the Middle States and the New England regions of the
College Board. She has also worked with the National Endowment for
the Humanities as a mentor teacher at Rutgers University, N.J., Hofstra
University, N.Y. and Bard College, N.Y.