Government and Politics: Comparative (posc 1227)
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:
- Teachers who are new to CompGov will get a chance to build a syllabus & select a textbook.
- Teachers who are experienced in CompGov will have a chance to refine their curriculum and learn some new tricks.
- Identify essential themes for the countries & EU.
- Discover how to fit in 6 countries worth of content into your term or semester.
- Receive lessons that you can plug-in directly into your curriculum.
- Develop new materials, projects, and presentations for your class next year.
- Locate resources on the web to supplement your instruction.
- Use technology to help your students learn collaboratively.
- Help students to focus on comparison when they are tempted to memorize country-specific facts.
- Develop student free-response writing skills while minimizing your grading workload.
- Develop review material for the AP* Exam.
- Collaborate with other CompGov teachers.
Register for the 2013 Government and Politics: Comparative workshop online. -Register now with a credit card.
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.
