Advanced Placement Program* Summer Institute

Pre-AP Geography, June 15-19, 2009               

Course Description

This course will focus on helping teachers prepare to successfully teach a high school class in Pre-AP World Geography. Employing a blend of content presentation, effective teaching strategies, and technology, the Institute will provide an overview of the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped our understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. In addition, writing skills and habits of mind that students need to be successful in an AP class will be addressed.  Teachers are asked to bring an atlas.

*Completely updated for 2009, including new units on Turkey, Food and Agriculture, Global Floral Industry, Worldwide Milk Production, Immigration, Urbanization and Population.

Lead Consultant

Susan Hollier teaches Advanced Placement Human Geography and World Geography at The Woodlands High School in The Woodlands, Texas. She consults for The College Board in Advanced Placement Human Geography and Pre-Advanced Placement World Geography and is a National Training Leader for SoapsTone, as well as serving as a Reader for the Advanced Placement Human Geography Qualifying Test.

She served on the TEA Lighthouse AP/TEKS Document Writing Team for Social Studies. Susan is a 2002 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from the National Council of Geographic Education and is listed in Who’s Who in American Teachers.

Her classes have received national recognition for winning the National NewsBowl Current Events Competition and placing in the National Geography Olympiad. She is the Houston World Affairs Council’s 2004 International Educator of the Year, a recipient of The Coca-Cola Scholars’ Joseph B. Whitehead 2006 Educator of Distinction Award and the 2007 Nobel National Society of High School Scholars’ Educator of Distinction Award. Ms. Hollier holds a BS degree from Louisiana State University.

 

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