Pre-AP High School Geography
AP12011
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World Geography Focus

This course will focus on helping teachers prepare to successfully teach a high school class in Pre-AP World Geography. Using a combination of content presentation, effective teaching strategies and technology, the course will provide an overview of the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped our understanding, use and alteration of Earth’s surface. In addition, writing skills and habits of mind that students need to be successful in an AP class will be addressed.

Topics will include the following:

• Teaching your students to develop case studies using main ideas in the geography curriculum for classroom presentations.
• Learn how to pull the geographic concepts together in all realms
• Focus topics will be population, culture, and physical geography.
• EOC/STARR State assessment

Participants should bring the following:

• Classroom textbook
• 4GB flash drive
• Sticky notes
• 30 copies of your favorite lesson/unit to share with participants (this could be electronic)

The “Pre-AP Vertical Teams Guide” will be provided to you by UT Arlington University.

Lead Consultant: Linda Hammon

Linda Hammon taught 9th-grade Pre-AP Geography, AP Human Geography and AP Art History at Canyon High School in New Braunfels, Texas. She had been teaching geography for more than 27 years and had taught Pre-AP World Geography for the past 15. She is currently teaching AP Human Geography at Canyon High School in New Braunfels and is an Adjunct Lecturer, teaching Cultural Geography at Texas State University in San Marcos. She worked closely with the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education as co-editor of its newsletter for six years and was a member of the steering committee and a teacher consultant for more than eleven years. Ms. Hammon has been a College Board consultant for twelve years and a reader for the APHG exam for six. She has received numerous honors including the National Council for Geographic Education Distinguished Teaching award, two National Council for Geographic Education/CRAM awards for exemplary classroom teaching, the Comal Independent School District Secondary Teacher of the Year award, Austin ISD High School Teacher of the Year award, the Southwest Texas State University Geography Department Distinguished Alumni award and the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education’s Distinguished Service award. For the last 5 years she has been recognized as one of Comal ISD’s most influential teachers by a Canyon High School graduating senior. Ms Hammon holds a BS in geography and art and a Med in curriculum and instruction and applied geography.

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