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Robert Collard
Robert is passionate about the AP Spanish courses and has been teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture for 17 years. He has been involved for 10 years at the AP Reading as an AP reader, Scoring Leader, and training sample selector. He has presented at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association conferences as well as at the Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies in Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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Robert Collard, born in Grand Junction, CO, and after living in Michigan and Florida, now lives in the Nashville, TN area. Robert has been working in education for 24 years. At the middle school level, Robert has worked as a Spanish teacher, ESL coordinator, and as a Gifted pullout program coordinator. At the high school level, he has taught levels 1 through AP Spanish Language and Culture as well as AP Spanish Literature and Culture. He has 7 years of experience at the college level as an adjunct professor teaching levels 1010 through 3020 at Middle Tennessee State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish, studied abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France and Querétaro, Mexico, and earned an MAT with a concentration in Spanish. He has served for a total of 15 years as the World Language Department Chair at two high schools, one at which he was named Teacher of the Year, in Williamson County, Tennessee. Robert has also served his district helping to develop proficiency-based World Language curricula that aligns to AP World Language and has held district-level professional development on the topic.
Robert is passionate about the AP Spanish courses and has been teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture for 17 years. He has been involved for 10 years at the AP Reading as an AP reader, Scoring Leader, and training sample selector. He has presented at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association conferences as well as at the Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Robert also served as the Tennessee State Director for La Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica and has sponsored active chapters for the last 17 years. He has also been involved in the Tennessee High School Speech and Drama League and worked as a Speech and Debate coach at his current high school.
Robert enjoys traveling back to Querétaro, Mexico to visit his wife’s family, mountain biking, and learning stringed instruments
Robert can be contacted at [email protected]
Robert is passionate about the AP Spanish courses and has been teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture for 17 years. He has been involved for 10 years at the AP Reading as an AP reader, Scoring Leader, and training sample selector. He has presented at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association conferences as well as at the Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Robert also served as the Tennessee State Director for La Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica and has sponsored active chapters for the last 17 years. He has also been involved in the Tennessee High School Speech and Drama League and worked as a Speech and Debate coach at his current high school.
Robert enjoys traveling back to Querétaro, Mexico to visit his wife’s family, mountain biking, and learning stringed instruments
Robert can be contacted at [email protected]
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will provide sample materials and classroom activities relating to the 2022 exam. Participants will be asked to actively participate and share best practices with the entire group each day. Be ready to share!
Topics will include the following:
Day 1: Getting Started with the AP Spanish Language and Culture Course and Exam.
• Introductions: Warm-up activity. Overview and agenda.
Understanding the course base: Inclusion of the National Standards and the 5 C’s; Communication, Comparisons, Communities, Cultures and Connections
Understanding the modes of communication and how to build proficiency across modes.
College Board’s Course and Exam Description (CED) – addressed throughout the week as well.
• Course Planning and Pacing Guides
• Textbooks and test prep books
• AP Central and the AP Community. Join the AP Spanish Language and Culture AP Community
• Facebook groups
• Course Audit
The AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam Format:
Section I: Multiple Choice-Interpretive Communication and Section 2: Free Response-Interpersonal and Presentation Communication. Which areas are most problematic for your students? What strategies do you have / can put in place to help students be successful?
Working with thematic units. Using the AP Themes to develop instructional units of study that integrate the modes of communication.
• What are the contexts that will be developed in this thematic unit?
• How will I integrate other themes?
• Lesson planning, scope and sequencing
• Essential Questions.
• Sample unit walkthrough
• How many thematic units per quarter/semester will I cover?
Equity and Access, Diversity and Inclusion – addressed throughout the week as well
· Looking at how your district, school, classroom addresses E&A, D&I
• Reflection, Q&A
Day 2: Developing and integrating the modes of communication; a focus on interpretive and interpersonal written communication.
Warm up activity.
• Questions regarding homework assignment, share some ideas.
Developing written and print interpretive communication, strategies for success. To include charts, graphs, articles, literature.
• Strategies for working with charts and graphs. Activities/assessments
• Using authentic literature in the AP Spanish Language and Culture Classroom; reading comprehension strategies. o Scaffolding poetry and prose. o Authentic literature; accessible to all students.
• Adapting and scaffolding the literature for AP Language and at the lower levels.
Developing Audio, visual, and Audio-Visual communication,
• strategies for success. To include, radio broadcasts, podcasts, short clips, cortometrajes; films, art.
• How do I integrate and use art in film in my AP Language course?
• Activities/assessments
• Using graphs, charts, and maps.
• Using graphic organizers.
• Using video in the classroom to enhance thematic units. o What films are appropriate at this level?
• How to help students prepare for the MCQs
• Participants share best practices for interpretive communication.
The email: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
• Developing interpersonal writing skills, activities, assessments, scoring criteria
• Strategies for success.
• Building proficiency and scaffolding interpersonal writing
• Using and integrating connector words
• Organizational strategies
• Participants share best practices for written interpersonal communication.
Time for collaborative unit design: Lesson planning; a work in progress.
• Preparing a thematic Unit, working in small groups to present on the final day; each group will work with a different theme. outline of a sample unit
Reflection, Q&A
Day 3: Developing and integrating the modes of communication; a focus on written presentational communication and spoken interpersonal communication.
· Warm up activity
The essay: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
Developing presentational writing skills, activities, assessments, scoring criteria, activities/assessments
• Strategies for success.
• Building proficiency
• Using and integrating connector words
• Organizational strategies & citing sources
• Writing the hook and thesis, scaffolding presentational writing, using Scoring Criteria
• Participants share best practices for written presentational communication.
The conversation: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
Developing interpersonal speaking skills. activities, assessments, scoring criteria
• Building proficiency and scaffolding interpersonal speaking, examining Scoring Criteria
• Strategies for success.
• Building proficiency
• Using and integrating connector words
• Organizational strategies and scaffolding interpersonal speaking
• Participants share best practices for spoken interpersonal communication.
Time for collaborative unit design
Day 4: Developing and integrating the modes of communication; a focus on spoken presentational communication.
• Warm up activity.
• Questions regarding homework assignment, share some ideas
The cultural comparison: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
Developing presentational speaking skills; strategies for success, building proficiency. Activities/assessments
• Strategies for success.
• How do we make comparisons?
• Organizational strategies, scaffolding presentational speaking, Scoring Criteria.
Understanding the cultural component and integrating culture into all levels of instruction.
• How do you transform culture and teach intercultural competence?
• Focus on products, practices, and perspectives.
• Participants share best practices for spoken presentational communication.
AP Classroom
· AP Question bank
· Performance Dashboard
· Unit materials
· Personal Progress Checks
· Course Framework
Instructional Planning Reports
· Using data to adjust instruction
Presentations of Thematic Units
Evaluations & certificates
Despedidas
The course will provide sample materials and classroom activities relating to the 2022 exam. Participants will be asked to actively participate and share best practices with the entire group each day. Be ready to share!
Topics will include the following:
- Planning, teaching, and assessing the AP Spanish Language and Culture course
- Developing student proficiency in and the integration of the three modes of communication;
- Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational.
- Teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture across themes.
- Teaching and developing culture in the AP Spanish Language and Culture course.
- Using authentic resources for thematic unit design
- Developing vocabulary
- Integrating authentic texts and literature in the AP Spanish Language and Culture course.
- Applying the scoring criteria to student samples.
- An idea or activity used last year in your course that you found to be particularly effective whether
- you are experienced or new to teaching the course. Electronic copies, please.
- A laptop computer or an iPad.
Day 1: Getting Started with the AP Spanish Language and Culture Course and Exam.
• Introductions: Warm-up activity. Overview and agenda.
Understanding the course base: Inclusion of the National Standards and the 5 C’s; Communication, Comparisons, Communities, Cultures and Connections
Understanding the modes of communication and how to build proficiency across modes.
College Board’s Course and Exam Description (CED) – addressed throughout the week as well.
• Course Planning and Pacing Guides
• Textbooks and test prep books
• AP Central and the AP Community. Join the AP Spanish Language and Culture AP Community
• Facebook groups
• Course Audit
The AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam Format:
Section I: Multiple Choice-Interpretive Communication and Section 2: Free Response-Interpersonal and Presentation Communication. Which areas are most problematic for your students? What strategies do you have / can put in place to help students be successful?
Working with thematic units. Using the AP Themes to develop instructional units of study that integrate the modes of communication.
• What are the contexts that will be developed in this thematic unit?
• How will I integrate other themes?
• Lesson planning, scope and sequencing
• Essential Questions.
• Sample unit walkthrough
• How many thematic units per quarter/semester will I cover?
Equity and Access, Diversity and Inclusion – addressed throughout the week as well
· Looking at how your district, school, classroom addresses E&A, D&I
• Reflection, Q&A
Day 2: Developing and integrating the modes of communication; a focus on interpretive and interpersonal written communication.
Warm up activity.
• Questions regarding homework assignment, share some ideas.
Developing written and print interpretive communication, strategies for success. To include charts, graphs, articles, literature.
• Strategies for working with charts and graphs. Activities/assessments
• Using authentic literature in the AP Spanish Language and Culture Classroom; reading comprehension strategies. o Scaffolding poetry and prose. o Authentic literature; accessible to all students.
• Adapting and scaffolding the literature for AP Language and at the lower levels.
Developing Audio, visual, and Audio-Visual communication,
• strategies for success. To include, radio broadcasts, podcasts, short clips, cortometrajes; films, art.
• How do I integrate and use art in film in my AP Language course?
• Activities/assessments
• Using graphs, charts, and maps.
• Using graphic organizers.
• Using video in the classroom to enhance thematic units. o What films are appropriate at this level?
• How to help students prepare for the MCQs
• Participants share best practices for interpretive communication.
The email: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
• Developing interpersonal writing skills, activities, assessments, scoring criteria
• Strategies for success.
• Building proficiency and scaffolding interpersonal writing
• Using and integrating connector words
• Organizational strategies
• Participants share best practices for written interpersonal communication.
Time for collaborative unit design: Lesson planning; a work in progress.
• Preparing a thematic Unit, working in small groups to present on the final day; each group will work with a different theme. outline of a sample unit
Reflection, Q&A
Day 3: Developing and integrating the modes of communication; a focus on written presentational communication and spoken interpersonal communication.
· Warm up activity
The essay: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
Developing presentational writing skills, activities, assessments, scoring criteria, activities/assessments
• Strategies for success.
• Building proficiency
• Using and integrating connector words
• Organizational strategies & citing sources
• Writing the hook and thesis, scaffolding presentational writing, using Scoring Criteria
• Participants share best practices for written presentational communication.
The conversation: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
Developing interpersonal speaking skills. activities, assessments, scoring criteria
• Building proficiency and scaffolding interpersonal speaking, examining Scoring Criteria
• Strategies for success.
• Building proficiency
• Using and integrating connector words
• Organizational strategies and scaffolding interpersonal speaking
• Participants share best practices for spoken interpersonal communication.
Time for collaborative unit design
Day 4: Developing and integrating the modes of communication; a focus on spoken presentational communication.
• Warm up activity.
• Questions regarding homework assignment, share some ideas
The cultural comparison: Review and score student samples from most current AP Spanish Language and Culture exams.
Developing presentational speaking skills; strategies for success, building proficiency. Activities/assessments
• Strategies for success.
• How do we make comparisons?
• Organizational strategies, scaffolding presentational speaking, Scoring Criteria.
Understanding the cultural component and integrating culture into all levels of instruction.
• How do you transform culture and teach intercultural competence?
• Focus on products, practices, and perspectives.
• Participants share best practices for spoken presentational communication.
AP Classroom
· AP Question bank
· Performance Dashboard
· Unit materials
· Personal Progress Checks
· Course Framework
Instructional Planning Reports
· Using data to adjust instruction
Presentations of Thematic Units
Evaluations & certificates
Despedidas