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1701 North State Street Jackson, MS 39210-0001 (800)352-1050 (601)974-1000
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One hundred-sixty teachers of Advanced Placement courses will learn how to implement successful Advanced Placement courses and strengthen existing courses July 11-16 during the Advanced Placement Institute at Millsaps College.
Millsaps College, home of the first College Board-sponsored AP Institute in Mississippi, has conducted AP institutes for more than 25 years and trained hundreds of teachers from Mississippi and surrounding states.
The 2010 AP institute will offer workshops in biology, calculus AB, chemistry, economics, English language and composition, English literature and composition, human geography, world history and United States history.
Teachers from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Tennessee have registered for the institute. Ten consultants who are from Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida and are certified by the College Board will provide training.
Teachers enrolled in the English workshops will tour the Eudora Welty House. They will hear Millsaps Professor Suzanne Marrs, a nationally recognized Welty scholar and Welty Foundation scholar-in-residence, speak.
David C. Davis, interim vice president of academic affairs and dean of thee college, said the Millsaps AP Institute trains not only teachers but is a boost to the state's educational system. "The institute has trained hundreds of high school teachers to offer AP courses, and has significantly strengthened the curricula in dozens of school districts," he said. "As a result, thousands of high school students have been challenged to perform at their highest levels and have entered college far more prepared to excel than they would have otherwise."
Millsaps began offering the AP Summer Teacher Institute in 1983 and is among three colleges and universities in the state that provide AP teacher workshops, said Wanda Manor, program coordinator at Millsaps.
The state Department of Education requires teachers of AP courses attend a College Board-endorsed AP training workshop, she said. The Millsaps AP Summer Teacher Institute is co-sponsored by The College Board Southern Regional Office.
For more information, phone 601-974-1130; e-mail Wanda Manor at manorw@millsaps.edu or Nola Gibson, director of continuing education at Millsaps, at gibsonk@millsaps.edu; or visit http://www.millsaps.edu/academics/continuing_education_advanced_placement_institute.php.
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