3019 AP® US Government and Politics for New & Experienced Teachers The course will focus on the development of content for each of the six units included in the course outline, as well as the use of essential questions, course objectives, learning activities, teaching strategies, and the interplay of multiple resources. Emphasis will be placed on preparing students for the AP® examination. An analysis of past AP® examinations will be included as well as a review of the standards established for grading the annual exams. A major portion of the course is devoted to the development of units for an AP® Government and Politics course by participants including the resources necessary for the implementation of such a course. Additional instruction will be provided on lesson preparation, block teaching strategies, and the use of internet based assignments. The course will provide assistance for those instructors who teach the AP ®US Government and Politics course for one high school semester as well as for an entire year. Noah Lipman, is a retired trial attorney who has taught at the law school, college and high school level. In addition to his law degree he also has a master’s degree in History and numerous graduate credits in both education and economics. For the last 12 years he has been a professor at Monmouth University in the history department, where his courses have been cross listed with the political science and business departments. He is also the CO-AP® Coordinator at Long Branch High School, a Title I urban school district in New Jersey, where he teaches AP® American Government and Politics; AP® US History; and AP® Macro Economics. He created and maintains a dual credit program with Monmouth University for the students in his AP courses. He has served as a Reader for the annual scoring of the AP® Government and Politics exam for the last eight years. In 2010 he was honored by College Board as one of their national teachers of the year. In 2012 he was named as a finalist at Monmouth University for the Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Hero award. In 2015 he was awarded the Sloan Award for advances in teaching economics by the New York metropolitan area based Council for Economic Education. He is a previous member of the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s education advisory committee. He currently serves as a consultant for College

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The course will focus on the development of content for each of the six units included in the course outline, as well as the use of essential questions, course objectives, learning activities, teaching strategies, and the interplay of multiple resources. Emphasis will be placed on preparing students for the AP® examination. An analysis of past AP® examinations will be included as well as a review of the standards established for grading the annual exams. A major portion of the course is devoted to the development of units for an AP® Government and Politics course by participants including the resources necessary for the implementation of such a course. Additional instruction will be provided on lesson preparation, block teaching strategies, and the use of internet based assignments. The course will provide assistance for those instructors who teach the AP ®US Government and Politics course for one high school semester as well as for an entire year.

Noah Lipman, is a retired trial attorney who has taught at the law school, college and high school level. In addition to his law degree he also has a master’s degree in History and numerous graduate credits in both education and economics. For the last 12 years he has been a professor at Monmouth University in the history department, where his courses have been cross listed with the political science and business departments. He is also the CO-AP® Coordinator at Long Branch High School, a Title I urban school district in New Jersey, where he teaches AP® American Government and Politics; AP® US History; and AP® Macro Economics. He created and maintains a dual credit program with Monmouth University for the students in his AP courses. He has served as a Reader for the annual scoring of the AP® Government and Politics exam for the last eight years. In 2010 he was honored by College Board as one of their national teachers of the year. In 2012 he was named as a finalist at Monmouth University for the Martin Luther King Jr. Unsung Hero award. In 2015 he was awarded the Sloan Award for advances in teaching economics by the New York metropolitan area based Council for Economic Education. He is a previous member of the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s education advisory committee. He currently serves as a consultant for College

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Board leading Advanced Placement workshops and summer institutes in both APUS History and AP American Government and Politics throughout the United States.