This relationship began with the College Board Advanced Placement Institute for Teachers. These high school teachers spend one week developing effective strategies for teaching College Board Advanced Placement courses. Teachers may choose from beginning or advanced workshops depending on need. And workshops include such areas as Calculus, French, U.S. History, Statistics, Studio Art, and Psychology to name a few. The job of teaching the high ability student at times proves ominous indeed.
Teachers actively search out resources that help in understanding, technique, and method.
Larry Treadwell, AP European History teacher at Ely High School, Pompano Beach, Florida, serves as example. In the early eighties he began preparing to teach the course in a high school which had never offered it before. His source of help proved to be the WKU AP Summer Institute. Mr. Treadwell was one of the over 3000 teachers who have been strengthened through the institute. But his story differs somewhat.