Advanced Placement Summer Institutes

World History

Advanced Placement* World History
High School Teacher Workshop
July 9 to July 13, 2012
Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana

Instructor: Dr. Jon Porter
Ph.D., University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, England
M.Phil., St Andrews University, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
A.B., Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana

* College Board & Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of the College Board. Used with permission

Workshop Focus

This course is open to new and experienced AP World History teachers. Participants will have a chance to discuss the themes, habits of mind and periodization of the Advanced Placement* World History course. We will also integrate content with ways to organize and teach World History as well as methods for best teaching the analytical and writing skills necessary for test mastery: the document based question (DBQ), based on primary sources, free response essay writing (the comparative and change over time essays), and test taking skills. We will also review and score past AP* World History exams. Participants should bring textbooks and document readers, a sample syllabus (if previously taught), lists of favorite web sites for teaching, and examples of best lessons.

Workshop Content and Schedule

Monday
Morning

  1. Introductions
  2. AP* World History: Definition and Master Narratives.
    • Read before class: Ross E. Dunn, Howard Spodek, essays in Teacher's Guide, 29-34, 65-70.
  3. The Exam

Afternoon

  1. Sample Lesson Plans I
  2. Discussion of Texts and supplements, syllabus
  3. Conceptual framework for teaching World History and AP* World History.
    • Read before class: James Kruppner-Martinez, "Teaching World History: Why We Should Start?" The History Teacher 29:1 (1995): 85-92
    • Jerry H. Bentley, "The Quest for World-Class Standards in World History," The History Teacher 28:3 (1995): 449-456.

Tuesday
Morning

  1. Ways of Organizing World History.
    • Read before class: Jerry H. Bentley, "Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History," The American Historical Review 101:3 (1996): 749-770
    • Patrick Manning, "The Problems of Interaction in World History," The American Historical Review 101:3 (1996): 771-782.
  2. Sample Lesson Plans II

Afternoon

  1. Foundations.
    • Read before class: David Christian, "Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Road in World History," Journal of World History 11:1 (2000): 1-26.
  2. Periodization I: 1000-1450.
    • Read before class: S.M. Ghazanfar, "The Economic Thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St. Thomas Aquinas: Some Comparative Parallels and Links," History of Political Economy 32:4 (2000): 857-888.
  3. The AP* World History Examination, Part I, Multiple Choice.

Wednesday
Morning

  1. Periodization II: 1450-1750.
    • Read before class: Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez, "Cycles of Silver: Global Economic Unity through the Mid-Eighteenth Century," Journal of World History 13:2 (2002): 391-427.
  2. Sample Lesson Plan III

Afternoon

  1. The AP* World History Examination, Part II, DBQ with rubric and sample student essays from previous examinations
  2. AP* Central (Computer Lab)

Thursday
Morning

  1. Periodization III:1750-1914.
    • Read before class: Jack A. Goldstone, "Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the 'Rise of the West' and the Industrial Revolution," Journal of World History 13:2 (2002): 323-388
  2. The AP* World History Examination, Part III, Change over Time with rubric and sample student essays from previous examinations

Afternoon

  1. Sample Lesson Plans IV
  2. The AP* World History Examination, Part IV, Comparative with rubric and sample student essays from previous examinations

Friday
Morning

  1. Periodization IV: 1914 &endash; The Present.
    • Read before class: Ladan Boroumand and Roya Boroumand, "Terror, Islam, and Democracy," Journal of Democracy 13:2 (2002): 5-20
  2. Teaching Document Analysis and Essays
  3. Reviewing and Study Guides
  4. Final Thoughts