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Stony Brook University: July 6-10
Stony Brook Southampton: August 3-7

Registration is Now Closed

flowerJust 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.

flowersTuition
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
fieldsTo 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.