ISIAH CABALIsiah Cabal has taught throughout Central Florida for the past 26 years and is currently in his seventh year teaching AP World History at Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, FL. He started teaching AP World History the first year it was offered in 2002. He has participated in the AP World History Reading since 2004 as a Reader (2004-2009) and Table Leader (2009-2017). He has been a Question Leader since 2017. In addition to attending the AP Reading, he served as a member of the AP Histories Standards Setting Committee, AP World History Test Development Committee (2019-2022), and as the AP World History Test Development High School Co-Chair (2022-2024) where he worked alongside high school and college faculty and the College Board to revise test items for future APWH exams.
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Isiah can be reached at: [email protected]
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This four-day World History workshop will explore the seven skills necessary to successfully prepare students for the AP exam. We will dive into pace, balancing skill development with content awareness, multiple choice decoding, note taking (mundane but highly appreciated by previous participants), essay writing and application of historical reasoning skills, essay evaluating, and review ideas. Laced throughout the workshop will be sundry lesson plans to aid in teaching these skills.
AGENDA
Before the first day of class
Materials
Agenda
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4
This four-day World History workshop will explore the seven skills necessary to successfully prepare students for the AP exam. We will dive into pace, balancing skill development with content awareness, multiple choice decoding, note taking (mundane but highly appreciated by previous participants), essay writing and application of historical reasoning skills, essay evaluating, and review ideas. Laced throughout the workshop will be sundry lesson plans to aid in teaching these skills.
AGENDA
Before the first day of class
- Please answer the three questions on the Google Classroom Stream. I will use the feedback from your responses to create a curriculum that will ensure that this institute makes the best use of our time.
- Gather the following resources:
- AP textbook(s) currently in use in your classroom (if you already are teaching)
- Your school’s 2024-2025 school calendar
- Familiarize yourself with the Course and Exam Description (CED).
- Have your administrator at school help you go through the course audit process. You will need this to be completed so that you can create an AP Classroom account.
- AP textbook(s) currently in use in your classroom (if you already are teaching)
Materials
- A laptop, iPad, or Chromebook with internet access
- Different colores highlighters
Agenda
Day 1:
- Welcome and introductions
- APSI protocols and logistics
- First day activities
- Setting up AP Classroom
- Part I: An introduction to the course
- Part II: A deep dive into the CED
- Part III: Historical thinking skills and reasoning processes
- Skill 1: Developments and processes
- Skill 5: Making connections
- Part IV: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Access
- Q&A
Day 2:
- Q&A and review of daily goals
- Skill 4: Contextualization
- Skill 2: Sourcing and situation
- Skill 3: Claims and evidence in sources
- Skill 6: Argumentation
- Scoring the SAQ
- Q&A: SAQ wrap-up
- Lesson planning
- Q&A
Day 3:
- Q&A and review of daily goals
- The LEQ: contextualization and thesis points
- Scoring the LEQ
- Debriefing the LEQ
- The DBQ: strategies to teach the DBQ
- Scoring the DBQ
- Collaborative learning: lesson planning
- Q&A
Day 4
- Q&A and review of daily goals
- Lesson plan presentation
- Part VI: AP Course Audit
- Part VII: Pacing
- Discussion: Pacing
- Part VIII: Data-driven instruction
- Building an AP-style test and grading policies
- Final Q&A
- Evaluations