GUSSIE WYNDHAMKathryn "Gussie" Wyndham was one of the first 50 teachers to be trained by the College Board to be an AP World History consultant.
She has served as an AP reader for twenty years and is stil looking forward to the 2025 Reading in Kansas City. She has served as a presenter throughout the western United States, internationally (Colombia, Thailand, Canada) and has served as a speaker at the AP* Annual Conference. She holds a BA and a Masters degree in Secondary Social Studies and has been the recipient of various awards and recognitions including a Fulbright Scholarship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a William Coe Scholarship and an East Asian Institute Scholarship. On a personal note, Gussie loves to travel. (all 7 continents with 72 countries so far) |
Gussie can be reached at: [email protected]
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interactions with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selected factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skill. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. Focused primarily on the past thousand years of global experience, the course builds on the understanding of cultural, Instutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, forms the organizing principle for dealing with the consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of World History.
AGENDA
Section 1: Welcome/Introductions/Logistics
Units Activity 1200-Present
Break down of the Course
-Course Framework
-6 skills & 3 processes
-content -Time period/ 9 Units
-6 themes -Regions/ Geography
-Audit -plan/teach/Assess
-Personal Progess Checks (PPC)
-Plan/Pacing
-Break Down of the test
-Multiple Choice. (55 Questions)
Section 2: Free Response Section of the Exam
-Short Answer Questions/Expectations (SAQ)
-Long Essay Question (LEQ) -Continuities and Changes Over Time
-Comparative Essay -Document Based Question (DBQ)
-Sample Student Responses/Score
-Sharing ways to incorporate student sample responses
Section 3: Effective Strategies to improve Critical Thinking/Reading Skills/ Note taking
-Textbook Reading Guideline-Reading methods -PERSIA, HIPPO, SOAPS, READAP -Determining What is important for student reading
-Strategies
-Writing workshop (grading with a rubric)
Section 4: Course Units and Lesson ideas
Unit 1 1200-1450
Unit 2 1200-1450
Unit 3 1450-1750
Unit 4 1450-1750
Unit 5 1750-1900
Unit 6 1750-1900
Unit 7 1900-Present
Unit 8 1900- Present
Unit 9 1900-Present
Section 5: Review Techniques for APWH Exam and Professional Growth
-Shower Curtain/Review Sessions/Full PracticeTesr/ Games ie. Taboo
-AP Central/College Board
-AP Annual and Regional Conferences
-AP Weekend Workshops
-Professional Organizations/Resources
The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interactions with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selected factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skill. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. Focused primarily on the past thousand years of global experience, the course builds on the understanding of cultural, Instutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, forms the organizing principle for dealing with the consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of World History.
AGENDA
Section 1: Welcome/Introductions/Logistics
Units Activity 1200-Present
Break down of the Course
-Course Framework
-6 skills & 3 processes
-content -Time period/ 9 Units
-6 themes -Regions/ Geography
-Audit -plan/teach/Assess
-Personal Progess Checks (PPC)
-Plan/Pacing
-Break Down of the test
-Multiple Choice. (55 Questions)
Section 2: Free Response Section of the Exam
-Short Answer Questions/Expectations (SAQ)
-Long Essay Question (LEQ) -Continuities and Changes Over Time
-Comparative Essay -Document Based Question (DBQ)
-Sample Student Responses/Score
-Sharing ways to incorporate student sample responses
Section 3: Effective Strategies to improve Critical Thinking/Reading Skills/ Note taking
-Textbook Reading Guideline-Reading methods -PERSIA, HIPPO, SOAPS, READAP -Determining What is important for student reading
-Strategies
-Writing workshop (grading with a rubric)
Section 4: Course Units and Lesson ideas
Unit 1 1200-1450
Unit 2 1200-1450
Unit 3 1450-1750
Unit 4 1450-1750
Unit 5 1750-1900
Unit 6 1750-1900
Unit 7 1900-Present
Unit 8 1900- Present
Unit 9 1900-Present
Section 5: Review Techniques for APWH Exam and Professional Growth
-Shower Curtain/Review Sessions/Full PracticeTesr/ Games ie. Taboo
-AP Central/College Board
-AP Annual and Regional Conferences
-AP Weekend Workshops
-Professional Organizations/Resources