Psychology: Advanced Topics - PSYC.1226

About the Workshop

The workshop is designed to facilitate lively, interactive sessions where experienced AP® Psychology teachers have time to share questions, strategies, concerns, and techniques. We will attempt to achieve five primary objectives at the institute:

  • Review the basics of the Advanced Placement® program, including information about the content of the psychology exam and how it’s developed and scored.
  • Explore various ways to successfully structure an Advanced Placement® Psychology course that meets the requirements of the AP® Audit.
  • Discuss required course content and effective demonstrations and activities for teaching that content.
  • Develop strategies to promote critical thinking and effective assessment.
  • Examine print, computer, and organizational resources to support AP® Psychology teachers.

Register for the 2019 Psychology:  Advanced Topics workshop online.

About the Instructor 

  • Charlie Blair-Broeker

    Charlie Blair-Broeker

    Charlie Blair-Broeker taught psychology at Cedar Falls High School (Iowa) from 1978 until his retirement in 2014 and now serves as an adjunct instructor at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa. He has been a Question Leader, Rubric Writer, Table Leader, or Reader for Advanced Placement® Psychology Examinations since the test was first administered in 1992, and has completed a three-year term on the AP® Psychology Test Development Committee. He has been involved in a number of American Psychological Association initiatives, serving as a member of the Task Force that authored the National Standards for High School Psychology, as chair of the Executive Board of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS), and as co-editor of the fourth volume of the APA Activities Handbook for the Teaching of Psychology. He is the co-author of Thinking About Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behavior (Worth Publishers). For three years, Charlie co-directed Teaching the Science of Psychology, a summer institute for high school psychology teachers supported by the National Science Foundation and the Northern Kentucky University Foundation. Charlie has led dozens of teacher workshops across the United States and Canada.