Kokoska

Navigating the AP® Calculus Exam: A Content Presentation

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Navigating the AP® Calculus Exam: A Content Presentation

How do you motivate, present and justify AP® Calculus Exam concepts and how are student responses scored? Former Chief Reader, Stephen Kokoska, discusses L’Hospital’s Rule, background, technology, and examples, and how Free Response Questions involving L’Hospital’s Rule are scored. This webinar replay will benefit AP Calculus teachers of all experience levels as you help students prepare for the AP Calculus Exam.

Kokoska

Stephen Kokoska

Professor of Mathematics, Bloomsburg University
Former Chief Reader, AP® Calculus

How do you motivate, present and justify AP® Calculus Exam concepts and how are student responses scored? Former Chief Reader, Stephen Kokoska, discusses L’Hospital’s Rule, background, technology, and examples, and how Free Response Questions involving L’Hospital’s Rule are scored. This webinar replay will benefit AP Calculus teachers of all experience levels as you help students prepare for the AP Calculus Exam.

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Common questions involving L'Hospital's Rule to help you prepare students for the AP Calculus exam
  • How to identify and avoid common student errors
  • How L'Hospital's Rule RFQs are scored on the AP Calculus exam
  • The use of technology in visualizing and solving problems involving L'Hospital's Rule
Anusha-Shankar

National Geographic Explorers in the Classroom

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National Geographic Explorers in the Classroom

Dr. Shankar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Biology in the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is a Featured Explorer in the new reading program Panorama: Reading Through the Lens of Science. She has studied animals around the world in locations such as Arizona and the Ecuadorian Andes. In this webinar replay, you will learn about the lives of Explorers as you join Dr. Shankar in exploring how animals from hummingbirds to arctic ground squirrels manage their energetic needs in some of the planet’s most difficult conditions.  

Anusha-Shankar

Dr. Anusha Shankar

National Geographic Explorer

Dr. Shankar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Biology in the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is a Featured Explorer in the new reading program Panorama: Reading Through the Lens of Science. She has studied animals around the world in locations such as Arizona and the Ecuadorian Andes. In this webinar replay, you will learn about the lives of Explorers as you join Dr. Shankar in exploring how animals from hummingbirds to arctic ground squirrels manage their energetic needs in some of the planet’s most difficult conditions.  

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • The important work that Explorers like Dr. Shankar do around the world
  • Tips to encourage curiosity in your students
  • How to use compelling science content to teach reading in the classroom
  • How Panorama: Reading Through the Lens of Science can engage students and immerse them in exploration through the lives of National Geographic Explorers
Deborah_Short

Growing Vocabulary to Improve Content-Area Reading and Writing

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Growing Vocabulary to Improve Content-Area Reading and Writing

This webinar explores ways to build students’ vocabulary knowledge so they can improve their reading and writing skills in the content areas. The first part of the talk will target vocabulary development with activities to introduce new words and activities to help students practice these words and make them their own. The second part will focus on vocabulary application with examples of content-area reading and writing tasks that engage students with new words and word-learning strategies.

Deborah Short, Ph.D

Division Director, Center for Applied Linguistics

This webinar explores ways to build students’ vocabulary knowledge so they can improve their reading and writing skills in the content areas. The first part of the talk will target vocabulary development with activities to introduce new words and activities to help students practice these words and make them their own. The second part will focus on vocabulary application with examples of content-area reading and writing tasks that engage students with new words and word-learning strategies.

In this webinar replay, you will learn how to:

  • Improve student vocabulary through reading and writing
  • Help students make vocabulary their own
  • Learn content-area reading and writing activities to increase vocabulary
Geometry

Geometry: Tips, Tools and Models

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Geometry: Tips, Tools and Models

Geometry is everywhere, in the natural and manufactured world. Students engage with patterns, designs, and shapes. They are able to discover and recognize angles, curves, and lines in their everyday lives in the classroom and beyond. Many of the properties and relationships we teach in the geometry strand K-12 can be modeled or demonstrated using everyday, inexpensive materials. Laurie shares and demonstrates her favorite tips, tools, and models for helping all students see the beauty of geometry! Learn some positive practices that you can use with your students to build understanding. 

Geometry

Dr. Laurie Boswell

Award-winning math teacher, trainer and Big Ideas Math® author

Geometry is everywhere, in the natural and manufactured world. Students engage with patterns, designs, and shapes. They are able to discover and recognize angles, curves, and lines in their everyday lives in the classroom and beyond. 

Many of the properties and relationships we teach in the geometry strand K-12 can be modeled or demonstrated using everyday, inexpensive materials. Laurie shares and demonstrates her favorite tips, tools, and models for helping all students see the beauty of geometry! Learn some positive practices that you can use with your students to build understanding. 

In this webinar replay you will learn: 

  • How to increase awareness of geometry in our everyday lives
  • Approaches for making and collecting models
  • Templates for tools and models to use in your classroom
Hoisington

Emerging Career Trends — The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Emerging Career Trends — The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Tap into the latest information to assist in guiding your students into careers that are meaningful, high paying, and have massive opportunity. What college majors and technical programs have the highest opportunities and the highest unemployment in the next decade? We must provide solid guidance to our students right now. Robots, with intelligence, are advancing into beneficial, life-saving, machines for assisting us in our everyday lives. The challenge is determining how we, as educators, can best train the next generation of students for a future that is still evolving?

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Corinne Hoisington

Professor of Information Systems Technology
Central Virginia Community College, Lynchburg, Virginia

Tap into the latest information to assist in guiding your students into careers that are meaningful, high paying, and have massive opportunity. What college majors and technical programs have the highest opportunities and the highest unemployment in the next decade? We must provide solid guidance to our students right now. Robots, with intelligence, are advancing into beneficial, life-saving, machines for assisting us in our everyday lives. The challenge is determining how we, as educators, can best train the next generation of students for a future that is still evolving?

In this webinar replay, you will learn:

  • Which technology careers will be in high demand for our students after they graduate high school and what they will need to get those jobs
  • How teachers can incorporate technology skills in high school to prepare students to be adaptable and prepare for their future careers
  • How Pathways digital initiative from National Geographic Learning can enhance students’ preparation for careers and college at all levels of readiness
Les_Dlabay

Career Development and Workforce/College Readiness for High School Students

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Career Development and Workforce/College Readiness for High School Students

Sign up for this webinar replay with author Les Dlabay where he’ll share teaching tips, projects and program ideas to incorporate Workforce and College readiness into any Career and Technical Education program. Sign up today to: Create a career plan utilizing personal assessment actions. Discover strategies for resumes, cover letters and interviews. 

Les Dlabay

Professor of Economics and Business, Emeritus
Co-author of Principles of Business

Sign up for this webinar replay with author Les Dlabay where he’ll share teaching tips, projects and program ideas to incorporate Workforce and College readiness into any Career and Technical Education program.

Sign up today to:

  • Create a career plan utilizing personal assessment actions
  • Discover strategies for resumes, cover letters and interviews
  • Identify transferable career competencies for critical thinking, communication, creativity, teamwork and interpersonal skills
  • Explore social media techniques for obtaining employment, career enhancement, professional development, leadership, and project management
  • Prepare for case interviews and other screening methods
Kennedy

A Tale of Three Cities: American Grand Strategy in WWII

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A Tale of Three Cities: American Grand Strategy in WWII

Who won World War II? That’s an apparently simple question with a decidedly complicated answer. In this webinar replay, Dr. David Kennedy will address this question by exploring America’s grand strategy in World War II. Learn about crucial U.S. decisions and how they shaped American’s role in the war as well as the progress and outcomes of the global conflict.

Kennedy

Dr. David Kennedy

Author and Professor of History Emeritus
Stanford University

Who won World War II? That’s an apparently simple question with a decidedly complicated answer. In this webinar replay, Dr. David Kennedy will address this question by exploring America’s grand strategy in World War II.

Learn about crucial U.S. decisions and how they shaped American’s role in the war as well as the progress and outcomes of the global conflict.

In this webinar replay, you will:

  • Understand the relation of the Pacific and European theatres, the importance of air power in the configuration of America’s armed forces and the timing and consequences of D-Day
  • Contemplate America’s relationships with its Grand Alliance partners, Britain and the Soviet Union
  • Learn about how to access The American Pageant, 17th AP® Edition, for your students through a print path, a print + digital path with MindTap™, and through National Geographic Learning’s new Pathways subscription model
Dana_Kopelman

The Updates to Advanced Placement: The Launch of AP® Classroom

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The Updates to Advanced Placement: The Launch of AP® Classroom

On-demand webinar with Dana Kopelman, Executive Director of AP® Instructional Products at the College Board. Learn the structure and content of the new AP resources launching in the 2019-2020 academic year. Effectively understand the difference between formative and summative assessment. 

Dana Kopelman

Executive Director, AP® Instructional Products
The College Board

Review the conversation to:

  • Learn the structure and content of the new AP resources launching in the 2019-2020 academic year
  • Effectively understand the difference between formative and summative assessment
  • Identify the use cases for the new formative assessments and the recommended approach to instructional implementation