Atwood on AP®: Essential Skills for Improving AP English
This is a podcast that focuses on interviewing successful AP® teachers, who have a passion and vision to improve their students’ writing, reading, and analytical thinking skills. If this is done effectively, improved scores will surely follow.
Episodes
This episode, Mike sits down with Mary Jo Zell, former ELA department chair at Keller High School and co-author of Ideas in Argument -
Building Skills and Understanding for the AP® English Language Course, to talk about best practices in AP® Lang including:
- The use of graphic organizers to improve student writing and close reading skills
- Textbook writing
- The benefits of APSI training for new AP teachers
- Strategies for all th...
Mike talks with Jennifer Camara-Pomfret, longtime AP English teacher, instructor for Mass Insight, and Department Chair at Seekonk High School. Topics include strategies in writing the Argument and Synthesis essays, making sure students “fill their cups” with knowledge including current events, history, and literature.
Jen also emphasizes the need to “stay on the pole” or stick your thesis statement and respond logically ...
In this episode, host Mike Atwood sits down with Jessica Stokes, an experienced AP teacher from Research Triangle High School in Durham, North Carolina. With over 12 years of experience across four grade levels of high school English, including Advanced Placement courses and Creative Writing, Jessi brings a wealth of knowledge to the discussion.
Mike and Jessi delve into a variety of topics, including personalized, digital, and proj...
AP Language and Literature teacher and host, Mike Atwood interviews AP® guru, John Williamson about the best practices and essential skills required for effective AP instruction. Throughout the conversation, John points to how teachers need to focus on teaching students the art of weaving in “Can’t Touch This!” abstract ideas into their FRQs in order to elevate lines or reasoning, creating sophistication. The two discuss the essent...
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