This workshop is intended for inexperienced or first and second year teachers of AP* Statistics.  The workshop will cover all topics needed to start the course as well as the subject matter covered in the course.  In addition, preparing students for the exam, book selection, recruiting students, pace, and selling the course to your administrators.  All four main topics will be studied (descriptive statistics, experimental design, probability, and inference) as well as the exam, its preparation and its grading.  Bring a TI-83 or TI 84, a three ring notebook capable of holding 200 pages, and a big box complimentary texts and workshop training packets from the 2009 Reading.

Robert L. Taylor received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Florida State University in 1971.   He is a Fellow and Life Member of the American Statistical Association and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.  He has taught at the University of South Carolina and the University of Georgia where he served as Head of the Statistics Department from 1989-1998.   Dr. Taylor regularly teaches statistical education courses, has been at the AP* Statistics Readings 2000-2002, was a Table Leader for the 2004, 2005 and 2006 AP* Statistics Readings, was a Question Leader for the 2007 AP* Statistics Reading and was the Assistant Chief Reader for the 2008 AP* Statistics Reading, has presented one-day and five-day College Board* AP* Statistics workshops throughout the Southeast and is currently a member of the Test Development Committee.  He has co-presented the Beyond AP* Statistics workshops at the national statistics meetings in Atlanta (2001), New York (2002), San Francisco (2003) and Minneapolis (2005).   Most importantly for this proposal, Professor Taylor has taught the AP* Statistics for Teachers course seven different times at the University of Georgia and Clemson University.  He is currently Professor and Department Chair of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University.