Tyler Advanced Placement Summer Institute

http://www.uttyler.edu/ap

The Tyler Advanced Placement Institute is a collaborative effort endorsed by the College Board between the University of Texas at Tyler, Ingenuity Center and Tyler Independent School District to provide K-12 teachers throughout the Southwestern region certification in the instruction of Advanced Placement and Pre-Advanced Placement courses.

Along with certification, instructors, counselors and administrators are also provided the ability to aid students in achieving college success, stimulating peer interaction, receive endorsed practices from College Board consultants and earn continuing education units.

Each course is instructed by College Board endorsed consultants as defined by the College Board:

• Have attended a College Board consultant training event,
• Be affiliated with (or recently retired from) an accredited secondary or higher education institution,
• Have active classroom or administrative experience within the last three years (filed consultants excepted; other allowances are possible under extraordinary circumstances),
• Teach in a discipline in which s/he has an undergraduate major or its equivalent or a demonstrated competence in an area to the discipline,
• Show evidence of continuing to remain current in the relevant subject area,
• Be currently teaching an AP course (high school faculty) or have recent experience teaching a comparable college course (college faculty),
• Show evidence of supporting successful student growth in the AP course and effective participation on the AP Exam (high school faculty), and
• Participate in an AP Reading or attend appropriate training for the Reading within the first three years of endorsement.