College Board Resources

This Slide Deck was shared with teachers during the summer for professional learning.  The Slide Deck shows how to navigate to AP Central and AP Classroom and how to use the resources.  Topics covered include:

College Board Recommendations and Enrollment Policies

AP Course Audit

Syllabus

Instructional Resources

• AP Classroom

• AP Daily

• Teaching AP for the First Time?

AP Classroom

• Unit Guides

• Daily Videos

• Topic Questions

• Progress Checks

• Question Bank

• Resources and Assignments

• Reports

Professional Learning Opportunities

Assessments

Recruitment

College Board recommends using Topic Questions  throughout the course.  Topic questions are formative assessment questions that are assigned to check student understanding of course topics.  The following information can be found on AP Central - Overview of AP Classroom Resources.

Assign topic questions any time: 

• Before you teach a topic, to assess prior knowledge 

• While you’re teaching a topic, to get immediate feedback on student understanding 

• After you teach a topic, to get data on what students know and are able to do 

Topic questions can be used as: 

• Warm-up questions 

• Homework exercises 

• Exit ticket questions 

• Quick assessments after watching AP Daily videos 

• Another way to help you identify and target student misunderstandings

Formative topic questions provide feedback to students on the areas where they need to focus and are designed to meet students where they are in the material. Topic questions are best used for spot-checking student understandings while teaching the topics identified in the course framework. They can be used in class or as homework based on teacher preference. The questions can reveal misunderstandings and help teachers target content and skills to emphasize in lessons and help students understand why an answer is correct or incorrect.

The topic questions also contain scaffolded Create performance task prompts. These can be paired with existing programming projects to provide students with incremental practice responding to the written response prompts. 

Use performance data provided from topic questions to determine which topic videos might be most beneficial for students to watch for remediation.