Conroe ISD
COVID-19
Digital Learning Instructional Overview
High School
AP/DC
Below is a great link to help students prepare for their AP Exams. It provides steps students should be taking prior to exam day.
https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/students/taking-ap-exams/getting-ready-for-exam-day
AP 2020 Exams: Exam Walk through
College Board has created a 4-minute video to help students with at home testing
https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/students/taking-ap-exams/exam-day-experience
https://apcoronavirusupdates.collegeboard.org/
The College Board posted new updates and information regarding AP Exam dates, information about the specific questions that will be assessed, the 45 minute time allotment, resources to access for studying and preparing for the upcoming testing dates.
Please take some time with your student who will be testing to go over all the information.
There is also a link to a form, located on the bottom of that page, for students to fill out if they don’t have Internet or a Device on which to take the test. College Board and Conroe ISD will make sure all students have what they need in order to take the test on the assigned day and assigned time.
Make sure you note the time of the exams and note the timezone (for CISD it will be Central Standard Time).
AP Classes and Review / YouTube Live
*Below is a daily schedule of live classes and review for all AP courses that students may participate in and watch.
*Please note the times listed are Eastern Standard so for us that means one hour earlier.
CISD will resume dual credit courses through Lone Star College on Monday, March 23rd. Class assignments and deadlines will be adjusted for online learning; CISD teachers will communicate these changes to students. At this time Lone Star College does not anticipate extending their spring semester, which ends with final assessments for college courses on May 4th. After this date, dual credit students will continue their high school coursework.
Registration for fall dual credit courses will resume once CISD and Lone Star College reopen their campuses to students. Deadlines for registration will be adjusted to reflect this closure. TSI testing to qualify students for dual credit will resume at a future date, and a schedule of testing dates and locations will be made available TBA.
Information for dual credit summer school courses will be made available once decisions are made by the school district and the college about registration dates and procedures.
For more questions, please contact your high school counselor or consult Lone Star College's website http://www.lonestar.edu/dualcredit.htm
AP Updates for Schools
Impacted by Coronavirus
March 20, 2020
As schools and communities navigate the unprecedented challenges posed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the health and safety of educators and students are the AP Program’s top priorities. Here’s how we’re supporting schools:
· We’re providing free remote learning resources.
· We’re investing in the development of a new at-home testing option.
Through our members across the country, we understand the new time constraints on everyone in the education community. These solutions are meant to be as simple and lightweight as possible for both students and teachers — without creating additional burdens for school leaders during this time.
· Traditional face-to-face exam administrations will not take place.
· Some students may want to take the exam sooner rather than later, while the content is still fresh. Other students may want more time to practice. For each AP subject, there will be 2 different testing dates.
The full exam schedule, specific free-response question types that will be on each AP Exam, and additional testing details will be available by April 3. We'll also unlock any relevant free-response questions in AP Classroom for digital use so students can access all practice questions of the type that will appear on the exam.
About This Year’s AP Exams
Students remain eager to take AP Exams and to have a chance to earn credit and placement. We surveyed 18,000 AP students and 91% indicated they want to complete this important step, urging us not to cancel this opportunity they have been working toward.
We’ll continue to support students with free resources through exam day. And while we encourage students to wait until closer to the test date to decide, any student already registered for an exam can choose to cancel at no charge.
The AP Program will invest heavily over the next month in the following ways:
· For the 2019–20 exam administration only, students can take a 45-minute online exam at home. Educator-led development committees are currently selecting the exam questions that will be administered.
· Colleges support this solution and are committed to ensuring that AP students receive the credit they have worked this year to earn. For decades, colleges have accepted a shortened AP Exam for college credit when groups of students have experienced emergencies.
Test security is a concern.
· The exam questions are designed and administered in ways that prevent cheating; we use a range of digital security tools and techniques, including plagiarism detection software, to protect the integrity of the exams.
· Scoring at-home work for an AP Exam is not new to the AP Program. For years the AP Program has received and scored at-home student work as part of the exams for the AP Computer Science Principles and AP Capstone courses.
Instructional Support
Beginning on Wednesday, March 25, students and teachers can attend free, live AP review courses, delivered by AP teachers from across the country. These mobile-friendly classes are:
Designed to be used alongside work that may be given by schools.
Will be recorded and available on-demand so teachers and students can access them any time.
Not dependent on current AP teachers continuing instruction. We know many AP teachers now face challenges that would make that impossible.
Will focus on reviewing the skills and concepts from the first 75% of the course. There will also be some supplementary lessons covering the final 25% of the course.