Welcome AP Psych Teachers

Please do the true/false 20 question quiz as we wait for everyone to get situated.

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Please make a STUDENT canvas account.

All materials used this week will be on a shared Google Drive, bookmarks, and/or Canvas.

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Introductions

Name

Experience

School

Book

Special situations.

Hobbies

Interests

Scott Reed

• 26 years teaching AP Psychology
• AP Reader since 2005
• Former TOPSS Chair
• NCSS presenter multiple years
• Loves the term “psychologically literate”

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Planned Daily Schedule

• 8:00 to 10:00 Psychology
• 10:00 to 10:15 Break
• 10:15 to 11:45 Psychology
• 11:45 to 12:15 Lunch
• 12:15 to 2:00 Psychlogy
• 2:00 to 2:15 Break
• 2:15 to 3:30 Psychology
• 3:30 to 4:00 Wrap up/ Homework

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pacing calculatorpsycho

Agenda

Day 1- What is AP Psychology (CED 2024)? Essential topics for teachers. Grading and writing AAQs.

Release: AP Psychology Resources

Day 2- Release: Google Drive What is Unit 0? Scientific practices materials. Unit 1. How to grade and write EBQ.

Day 3- Release: Bookmarks Molly Gum Guest speaker. Units 2 and 3. Practice test and calendar

Day 4- Reviewing for the exam. What do you do after the exam? Scott- Psych Starters and Taking Psychology home. Individual conferences.

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Hi-Low Game

Percentage of high school psychology teachers who:

Only teach psychology?

26%

Are the only psychology teacher on campus?

53%

Felt unprepared when asked to teach psych?

73%

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My biases- many ways to be successful

None of us have the same situation:

• The content is generally enough for engagement
• Mostly stay away from arts/craft (175 students)
• Psychology is psychology
• No reading quizzes or notes
• Allowing assessment retakes is a great policy- I do not do it.
• Every period- demonstration, notes, video, discussions, formative assessment
• Stay out of the way of students who have the skills to be successful, scaffold those who need it.

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We are Psych Teachers

ADVOCATE

• Advocate for psychology, teaching, advanced placement.
• Psychology is a science and a class almost every college graduate would take (93% at ASU)
• Nearly 1 million high school students take a psychology class each year.
• Go to trainings if you can- Arizona Teachers of Psychology Workshop (free), NCSS, APA, College Board (you are here), TOPSS webinars and summer trainings.
• There are a lot of opportunities for psychology teachers.
• Infographic

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Issues:

Open Enrollment

Summer Reading

Recruiting

Retainment

Scaffolding

Psychology is a good gateway

Homework Policies

Extra Credit

Growth Mindset

Questions for CED 2024

• Will I still teach history and perspectives?
• Scientific Practices as a separate unit?
• Will I use the same order as the CED?
• How will scientific practices be inclusive?
• When will I start teaching AAQs and EBQs? How often will I use them and how to assess?
• Will I teach in the same order as CED 2024? When will I formative and summative assess?
• What will I teach that is not in the CED (names, parts of neuron, perspectives…)
• Preparation for digital exam.

You see my bias towards Perspectives

Resources

TOPSS

NCSS

Facebook

Local Teachers (AZ Psych List serve)

STP- Division 2

Twitter @highschoolpsych (Steve Jones)

What are your favorites?

Evolution of AP Psychology

9 Units are Condensed into 5 Units

New Unit Structure

• Unit 1: Biological Bases of Behavior (brain, sleep, drugs, sensation)
• Unit 2: Cognition (Perception, Memory and Cognition, Intelligence)
• Unit 3: Development and Learning
• Unit 4: Social Psychology and Personality (Motivation and Emotion)
• Unit 5: Mental and Physical Health (Health and Positive Psychology)

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The organization of topics mimics the 5 Pillars from the Intro Psych Initiative: (https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/undergrad/introductory-psychology-initiative)

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APA- Intro to Psychology Initiative

Instructional Planning Reports

2021 Link

2025 Link

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Science Practices Overview

AP Psychology

CED�p. 14

Updated AP Psychology Exam Specifications

Assessment of both course content and course skills

CED�p. 148

These actually should each be 15-25%

Planning for 2024-2025

Pacing is essential to success!!

Pacing Calculator (Melissa Rogers)

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14 units vs 9 units vs 5 units

Key Questions:

What textbook will you be using?

How do you plan to incorporate AP Classroom? Progress checks?

Sensation and Perception?

Science foundations at the beginning, review at the end.

Block Schedule

How often are you wanting to do summative assessments?

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Planning a day

Divide the period into 10 minute segments

Typical day A Typical day B

Written response to prompt Kahoot

Share in families (groups) Lecture on new topic

Share as a class Worksheet as a family

Lecture on new topic Go over answers as a class

Video Video

Response to video Exit note

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Other activities- Current events, classroom demonstration,

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Planning a unit

Day one- Make up tests and essays, grade the frq if there was one, light introduction of new material.

Personally I do all make-up work in class.

Day 5- A “meat and potatoes” quiz. I get these back the next day, so if you miss I record it as a no grade (not a zero), but allow students to take it as feedback.

Day 9 (day before chapter test)- FRQ 25 minutes, review activity like quizlet live or watching crash course. I do NOT do an FRQ for each unit.

Day 10- Unit Assessment timed like the AP test. I use 0.7 X # of questions (ie, 0.7 X 40 questions = 28 minutes)

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Reed’s Rules of 3 and Rule of 80

Rule of 3

Concepts should be covered at least 3 different times in class during the unit.

Day 1- Define, give some examples

Day 2- Practice, applications (warm-up, self quiz, go over an assignment)

Day 3- Formative Assessment (quiz, kahoot, worksheet, student examples)

Rule of 80

I cover 80% of what is on the unit exams, the book covers 80% of the exam.

So most of what is on the exam is in both my presentations and in the textbook.

Not reading the textbook will make it hard to get above 80%

Rule of 80 Part 2

Above 80% on last exam you are on your own to study. Study guide optional.

Below 80% on last exam and you need to turn in a study guide or get a zero.

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Basic Statistics for AP Psychology (before CED 2024)

Multiple choice 100 points Free response 50 points

Two free response questions at 25 points each

Each point of a 7 point rubric= 25/7 or about 3.4 pts

The average score on a FRQ is 2 - 3.5

Reed’s general heuristic for multiple choice

>80 is a 5

70-80 is a 4

60-70 is a 3

50-60 is a 2

Remember ⅓ of the points come from the FRQ, and some tests the cut offs are lower or higher.

Scoring for CED 2024

Multiple choice 80 points Free response 40 points

Two free response questions at 20 points each

Each point of a 7 point rubric= 20/7 or about 2.9 pts

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There are 75 Multiple choice questions worth 80 point

Each Multiple Choice Question 80/75 or about 1.07

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Since this is the first year of scoring, there is no calibration of what would give each score. Remember there are two national versions, an international version, and other alternative exams.

Teach like a Coach

How I grade an AP Psychology FRQ

Students give FEEDBACK to a classmate on their essay, or I have students grade their own. They put the point next to the number and highlight the key phrase that scored.

I give 10 points for grading and then add the score. So on a 7 point rubric, a score of 4 would get a 14 out of 17. I consider that fair.

Students will understand how the essays are graded MUCH better if they learn to grade. You can go over fine points of the rubric while having the students’ attention.

It takes about 20 minutes of class time that I feel is well spent. It saves you at least an hour a class of grading that could be spent on planning or something more important.

Is CHUG SODAS still a strategy?