AP World History

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can everyone who has kids in AP World History share what unit they are on?

Unit 3 - Land based empires.

Ok same for us. Is your teacher actually teaching?

[Anonymous]

Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

How do you know this?

Are you in class with her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

How do you know this?

Are you in class with her?

One of them posts videos of their “lessons”. If you listened to them, you’d unlearn even the things you used to know. The second posts nothing, other than ‘Do this, do that, you have a test on date X’. There are no lessons, no study guides no material. The third does post their slides. There are generally about 5 slides per 30 page chapter, and it’s missing significant portions of what’s in the textbook, the material that they get tested on.

So, she’s watching YouTube videos, we’re buying resources, and she’s self teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

This is eerily similar to my kid’s experience. Are you able to name the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

+1 I am incredibly frustrated with this because we had heard such great things about this teacher and I’m not seeing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

Does he also take forever to grade anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

This is eerily similar to my kid’s experience. Are you able to name the school?

It’s one in Western FFX. I’m told that when he taught Freshman World History, he actually taught, and was quite good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

Does he also take forever to grade anything?

MCQs seem to be graded promptly. The combined Units 1&2 summative was graded right away, as was the little quiz on Unit 3 (which DD got a 95 on, so of course it doesn’t count towards anything). Still have no idea about the Units 1&2 SAQ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

Does he also take forever to grade anything?

MCQs seem to be graded promptly. The combined Units 1&2 summative was graded right away, as was the little quiz on Unit 3 (which DD got a 95 on, so of course it doesn’t count towards anything). Still have no idea about the Units 1&2 SAQ.

Ok. We are definitely in the same class. The retake is in a week and we still don’t know these kids’ scores. MCQ was automatically graded on the College Board site.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe no content is taught. It’s absolutely mind boggling and incomprehensible. I compare over to another school - they get power points and lectures. They read one section at a time, and take a reading quiz (multiple choice) the next period. They test on one unit at a time. In preparation for the first unit, they were given a study guide and multiple SAQs. They also practiced SAQs in class. They also watch Heimler videos in class at times.

Why does our teacher not teach any content? Kids aren’t taking notes during class. They are not digesting any of the info. The kids are scoring 2s and 3s on the reading quizzes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year.

So, what does the teacher do?

DD says he talks about random things. Like about his kids and their HS experience, grand kids, how his weekend was, general life lessons, etc. The only relevant things he talks about are test taking strategies. There is no teaching of content. They are expected to read the book, take notes, and figure out what’s important, themselves.

Does he also take forever to grade anything?

MCQs seem to be graded promptly. The combined Units 1&2 summative was graded right away, as was the little quiz on Unit 3 (which DD got a 95 on, so of course it doesn’t count towards anything). Still have no idea about the Units 1&2 SAQ.

Ok. We are definitely in the same class. The retake is in a week and we still don’t know these kids’ scores. MCQ was automatically graded on the College Board site.

DD is not retaking, regardless of how terrible her SAQ score is. There is enough to do with learning new content. She said that in class, the kids with high MCQ scores were tasked with teaching the kids with low MCQ scores why their answers were wrong. It’s utterly ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe no content is taught. It’s absolutely mind boggling and incomprehensible. I compare over to another school - they get power points and lectures. They read one section at a time, and take a reading quiz (multiple choice) the next period. They test on one unit at a time. In preparation for the first unit, they were given a study guide and multiple SAQs. They also practiced SAQs in class. They also watch Heimler videos in class at times.

Why does our teacher not teach any content? Kids aren’t taking notes during class. They are not digesting any of the info. The kids are scoring 2s and 3s on the reading quizzes.

They’re just note taking at home and since no one goes over them, retention is poor. DD watches Heimler and other videos and we’re getting other online resources to make sure that she understands the material.

Frustrating as it is, it is what it is, and we have to figure out a way to get her through this without entirely torching her GPA.