Advanced Placement Summer Institute for Spanish Language

Consultant:

Amalia Barreiro Gensman is a native from Mexico City. She has 30 years teaching experience. She is Foreign Language Department Chair and Teacher at Eisenhower Senior High School in Lawton, Oklahoma. She has been a College Board Consultant for 6Years. Also, she has participated in the Advanced Placement Exam Reading for 6 years. Ms. Gensman is Former Vice-Chair of the State of Oklahoma Textbook Committee and is a current member of the State of Oklahoma Teacher Certification Examination Committee.

The AP Spanish Language Course

The course will provide teachers with information to help students be successful when taking the Advance Placement Examination. The course will address the different aspects of the new 2007 Exam and its components. To help teachers become familiar with the exam, there will be a simulated reading of the 2007 Exam and an explanation of the new grading rubrics. Teaching activities and suggestions will be presented and shared. Emphasis will be given to the written and reading portions of the exam. Samples course syllabus and Course Description will be review to help with the Audit Process. Ideas for the integration of Vertical Teaming will also be addressed. Participants will be asked to share successful classroom experiences and activities as well as favorite internet resources (you may need to bring enough copies for all participants to have) 

Summer Institute Syllabus:

1. The Role of the College Board in the Spanish Language Program

2. College Board Equity Access Policy

3. Rational for the Creation of the new 2007 Audit

4. Claims and Evidence of an AP Course

5.  Course Description

6.  The Starting Point, vertical teaming

7. Format for the New 2007 Exam

8. The Listening Portion of the Exam

9. Interpretive Communication, Developing Listening Skills

10. Sample Listening Activities

11. Authentic Sources for Listening

12. Listening With Imagination

13. The Reading Portion of the Exam:

14.  Pre-reading Strategies to Build Reading Comprehension

15.  Strategies for Active Reading

16. The Completion Portion of the Exam

17. Completion Activities and Grammar Implications.

18.  Grammar Points, (Helpful Suggestions)

19.  The Writing Portion of the Exam:

20.  Reading Sample Essays and Evaluation

21.  The Writing Process Informal and Formal Writing

22.  The Essay: A Practice of the Written Experience

23. Building Cultural  Understanding

24.  The Oral Portion of the Exam:

25.  Informal Conversations

26. Presentational Skills, Strategies to Develop Oral Skills

27. The Internet, a Helpful Tool

28. What Do You Do Your Classroom?

This syllabus is a tentative plan of study. There is not a set time allocated for each study point. Together the instructor and the class will make decisions on its implementation based on the interest and the needs of the majority of the participants.