This workshop is geared to both experienced and new AP* U.S. History teachers.  The course emphasizes methodology, the delivery of content, course design, and lesson implementation.  Participants in this class will be able to design new or revise syllabi for AP* U.S. History courses.  Key goals of particular attention in this workshop include: sharing strategies, pedagogy, educational philosophies, and frameworks associated with successful American History courses. AP* teachers establish familiarity with the wide range of multifaceted resources available to them and gain awareness of systematic avenues for improving student reasoning and writing skills. Objective and essay questions from past exams will be reviewed and testing strategies discussed with special focus on primary sources and the DBQ. 

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Instructor

Kathleen Mullin

College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

Kathleen Mullin received a B.A. and M.A. from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.  Mullin currently teaches at the College of DuPage and previously taught at DePaul University in Chicago.  Mullin has taught AP* U.S. History, Bilingual and ESL U.S. History, and World History.  Mullin, who travels extensively around the world, received the prestigious Excellence in Education Award – Township High School in 2003 and 1987.