:: 2012 AP* Summer Institutes at UT Austin

AP Spanish Literature Combined
AP12031
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The AP Spanish Literature and Culture course is an activity oriented course that will prepare participants for the new curriculum that begins in upcoming 2012-2013 school year and help them develop strategies for building a successful self-sustaining program. Participants will receive numerous ideas, handouts, strategies, and materials that will engage, develop, and motivate students to succeed. Our workshop will focus on understanding the new curriculum framework and preparing to teach the new reading list. We will also look at strategies for teaching the works that will prepare students for the new AP exam. This will include recommended strategies and activities to work with literary terms, contextualization of the literary works, and the development of thematic lessons and units with a particular focus on appropriate formative and summative assessments. In addition, we will also discuss the importance of vertical teaming and the integration of technology into the literature classroom. Finally, participants will begin to prepare for the course audit and have opportunities to share their best practices that work with students!

Participants are encouraged to read the curriculum framework before the course and to bring any lessons, materials, or websites that they wish to share!

Lead Consultant: Cameron Stephen

Cameron Stephen teaches at Cy-Fair High School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District located in Cypress, Texas. He has taught there for all 12 years of his career and has served as department chairman since 2009. He is a product of the AP Spanish program at Kearns High School in Salt Lake City, Utah where he took the AP Spanish Language exam in 1993. His passion for teaching was born while serving a mission for his church to the Dominican Republic from 1994 to 1996. Upon returning home, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Utah in 2000. He completed a Master of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Houston in 2009. He has taught Pre-AP Spanish and AP Spanish Language since his first day in the classroom. He was responsible for re-starting the Native Speakers program at this school in 2001 and started the AP Spanish Literature program in 2002. When Mr. Stephen started at Cy-Fair, only 3 students participated in the AP Spanish Language exam. Now, his school regularly has more than 70 students that participate in AP Spanish Language and 10-15 that participate in AP Spanish Literature on a yearly basis. Mr. Stephen has served as a reader for the AP Spanish Literature exam since 2005 and has been a Table Leader since 2009. He has presented several workshops and sessions at the Texas Foreign Language Association conferences and has been a College Board Consultant since 2011, conducting workshops and summer institutes.

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