The
College BoardŐs Advanced Placement Program¨
AP¨
German TeachersŐ Conference
T.
C. Williams High School
3330
King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302
Dear Colleague:
On Saturday, January 26, 2008, the AP German Development
Committee will present a conference on AP German Language. The conference,
which is free of charge, will take place between 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
in the Rotunda at T. C. Williams High
School, 3330 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22302.
You and your colleagues are cordially invited to attend
the Development CommitteeŐs program, which will feature presentations on
teaching AP German Language. Participants will have the opportunity to engage
in a question-and-answer session and to exchange information with the high
school and college faculty who are responsible for designing the AP German
Language course and exam and with the Chief Reader, who supervises the
evaluation of studentsŐ essays and speech samples. A copy of the agenda is enclosed.
You may wish to post it on your departmentŐs bulletin board.
To register for the conference, please complete the
enclosed form and return it to Michele Miller by e-mail (mmiller@ets.org), fax (609-683-2800), or mail
(MS 18-N, ETS, Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08541) by January 18, 2008. By registering in advance, you will ensure that
those planning the conference provide a sufficient number of publications and
handouts. We also encourage you to include any questions you would like to have
answered at the conference. You will not get a confirmation of
receipt of your registration form, but your registration assures you of a place
at the conference.
We sincerely hope that you and your colleagues will be
able to participate in this program and take advantage of the opportunity to
meet and exchange ideas with the AP German Development Committee. We look
forward to seeing you in January.
Margaret Hampton, Chair
AP German Development Committee
AP German Development Committee for 2007–2008:
Margaret
Hampton, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, Chair
Mary
Ashcraft, University of Nevada at Las
Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Kerstin
Helbing, Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo
Alto, CA
Adam
M. Levine, T. C. Williams High School, Alexandria,
VA
Juan
Carlos Morales, Miami Palmetto Senior High
School, Miami, FL
Jamie
Rankin, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ
Anja
Restenberger, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Chief Reader for AP German is Wiebke Strehl of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
The Chief Reader Designate is Johanna Watzinger-Tharp of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Consultants from Educational Testing Service, Princeton,
NJ, are Ulrike Johnson and Dorothy
David.
REGISTRATION FORM
The
College BoardŐs Advanced Placement Program¨
AP¨
German TeachersŐ Conference
Saturday, January
26, 2008
9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Return
by January 18, 2008,
to Michele Miller by e-mail (mmiller@ets.org), mail (MS 18-N, ETS,
Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08541), or fax (609-683-2800) so that provisions
can be made for seating, refreshments, and materials.
(Please
Print)
NAME _______________________________________________________________________________
TITLE ________________________________________________________________________________
INSTITUTION
________________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS ____________________________________________________________________________
PHONE
NUMBER __________________________E-MAIL ___________________________________
I
presently teach an AP German course:
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I
am considering teaching an AP German course: ____
This registration form may be used to register more than
one person. Please list below the
names and addresses of any others who plan to attend.
How
many others plan to attend?
____
Names _______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
Please use the space below to submit any questions you would like discussed at the conference.
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The
College BoardŐs Advanced Placement Program¨
AP¨
German TeachersŐ Conference
TIME
9:00 a.m.–12:30
p.m.
8:30–9:00
a.m. * Coffee/breakfast
9:00–9:15
a.m. * Developing
the AP German Examination
9:15–10:00
a.m. * 2007
Exam Results; Grading of the Exam
10:00–11:30
a.m. * Development
of the AP Course, Teaching
Strategies,
and Classroom Exercises
11:30
a.m.–12:00 p.m. * Program
News
12:00–12:30
p.m. * Questions
and Answers; Best Practices
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