It is exciting to facilitate a four-day workshop that focuses solely on Comparative Government. One-day workshops tend to combine US and Comparative and CompGov teachers never get equal time. Here's our chance!

A sampling of workshop goals:

1. Teachers who are new to CompGov will get a chance to build a syllabus & select a textbook.
2. Teachers who are experienced in CompGov will have a chance to refine their curriculum and learn some new tricks.
3. Identify essential themes for the countries & EU.
4. Discover how to fit in 6 countries worth of content into your term or semester.
5. Receive lessons that you can plug-in directly into your curriculum.
6. Develop new materials, projects, and presentations for your class next year.
7. Locate resources on the web to supplement your instruction.
8. Use technology to help your students learn collaboratively.
9. Help students to focus on comparison when they are tempted to memorize country-specific facts.
10. Develop student free-response writing skills while minimizing your grading workload.
11. Develop review material for the AP* Exam.
12. Collaborate with other CompGov teachers.

John Unruh-Friesen has taught AP* Government & Politics since 1997
and has been at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, MN since 2001.
John is a College Board* consultant for both AP* United States Government
and AP* Comparative Government. He has served as a national exam
reader and maintains apgov.org.