NCAPP AP Best Practices Series

The North Carolina Advanced Placement Partnership (NCAPP) is excited to offer FREE AP Best Practices Series sessions to North Carolina’s AP teachers in public schools. NC AP teachers can attend online sessions specific to their AP course to discuss strategies designed to strengthen AP instruction and improve student learning through AP tool integration and support.

NCAPP Purpose

The mission of the Partnership between College Board and the state of North Carolina is to prepare, inspire, and connect students to post-secondary success and opportunity, with a particular focus on minority students and students who are underrepresented in post-secondary education. The purpose of the Partnership is, therefore, to assist in improving college readiness of secondary students and to assist secondary schools to ensure that students have access to high-quality, rigorous academics with a focus on access to Advanced Placement (AP) courses. See the NC Advanced Placement Partnership website at www.ncappartnership.org for additional information.

What to Expect from the AP Best Practices Series:

• 90-minute AP course specific and focused sessions designed by NC AP teachers who want to collaborate and connect with other NC AP teachers
• Registrants:
  • Must be NC public school teachers; NCAPP professional development is not available to private or charter schools.
  • Will receive an email confirmation with session information after completing the registration form.
  • Will receive an email prior to the Session(s) with appropriate Zoom links.
• Participants will receive a certificate of participation based on survey participation at the end of each session by April 30, 2022.

Note: The AP Best Practices Series is designed for current AP teachers. If you are a prospective AP teacher, please look for details in the coming months about the AP Summer Institutes (APSI), which are usually scheduled June - August.

AP World Language & Culture Sessions Overview

Session 1:  Best Practices for Teaching the Course Frameworks and Thematic Units

Session 2:  Best Practices for Building Students’ Interpretive Skills

Session 3:  Best Practices for Building Students’ Interpersonal and Presentational Skills

Session 4:  Office Hours for One-on-One Support with the Modes of Communication Skills

Please see the AP Best Practices Series document for more details and to register for the session(s) available for:

• AP Chinese Language & Culture @ 4:00 - 5:30 pm on February 2 - March 28
• AP French Language & Culture @ 5:00 - 6:30 pm on February 2 - March 29
• AP German Language & Culture @ 5:00 - 6:30 pm on February 2 - March 22
• AP Spanish Language & Culture @ 5:00 - 6:30 pm on January 26 - March 23

AP Spanish Literature & Culture Sessions Overview

Session 1:  Teaching Units 1 and 2 to Assess and Accelerate Learning

Session 2:  Teaching Units 3 through 5 with Focused Instruction and Assessments

Session 3:  Teaching the Remaining Units in the CED with Focused Instruction and Assessments

Session 4:  Office Hours for One-on-One Support with the CED's Final Units

Please see the AP Best Practices Series document for more details and to register for the session(s) available for AP Spanish Literature & Culture @ 5:00 - 6:30 pm on January 26 - March 23.

Questions about the AP Best Practices Series? Email Michelle Lourcey at mlourcey@collegeboard.org.

NFLRC 2022 OLP Webinar Series

Engaging Online Language Learners through SEL

The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is offering its FREE Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) webinar series on Thursdays from 7:00 - 8:30 pm ET on January 27 - February 24, 2022.

The 2022 OLP series will highlight how online language instructors can use the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Framework to engage students in the virtual classroom and enhance the experience and satisfaction of learning a language online. Topics will include highlighting learner self awareness, promoting self management and self motivation, expanding social awareness through online extracurricular activities, teaching responsible decision making through storytelling, and building positive relationship skills in a supportive way.

Successful completion of this series will earn an optional digital badge conferred by the NFLRC. More information on digital badge requirements will be available soon. Badge earners may be eligible to earn a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards maintaining their professional qualifications.

Registration is FREE, but required. The last day to register for access to the live webinar series is February 24, 2022.

Webinar dates and topics:

• January 27 - Integrating SEL in Online Language Classrooms & Promoting Self-Awareness with Students
• February 3 - SEL and Engagement in Virtual Classrooms & Building Compassion and Curiosity in Online Learning
• February 10 - SEL in the World Language Classroom: Developing Responsible Decision-Making through Storytelling & Beyond Basic Storytelling
• February 17 - Fostering Community in an Online Learning Environment & Raising Social Awareness through Cultural Connections
• February 24 - Sharing ASL Tools for World Language Teachers to Leverage & Positive Interactions in the Online Language Classroom to Improve Relationship Skills

Please see the 2022 OLP Series: Engaging Online Language Learners through SEL webpage for additional details and registration. This series project advisor, Ellen Hart, and facilitator, Sarah Boutin, are educators with NC Virtual who are part of the NFLRC Community.