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[quote=Anonymous]Lots of good points here, and I would add the following:

-You can find global AP scores by Googling that phrase and “Trevor Packer” who compiles them year. These scores will show some interesting patterns, especially over a decade or more, and can be useful to compare with school scores.

-I have taught AP Lit for 17 years and have consistently achieved some of the top scores in my school, my state, and I guess also the country. I can tell you that scoring well on the exam has gotten much easier over the years. Partly this is because of positive changes like using a more practical rubric, partly it’s smaller, more subtle tweaks. It’s not ever openly acknowledged but it’s very obvious to a veteran teacher—students, even top students, do not have the reading and writing skills they once did. Yet they consistently score much higher than they once did. Again, you can see this trend in the global scores. As much as I would like to say this is a result of improved teaching, it’s pretty obvious it’s not. I see what my students write all year, I score them honestly, and I know what they would have gotten on the exam 10 years ago.

-AP Classroom is a limited tool. I can teach the skills much better than the videos can, and in a much more engaging way. That’s not arrogance, that’s just what any decent in-person teacher can do, because most kids do not learn well from videos and online, as we know from the pandemic. I am concerned that some newer teachers rely on it way too heavily. Some of the videos I have watched are just pretty bad, to be honest.

—The best resource for students and teachers alike are the old test questions and scored student samples available on AP Central.

—It really helps if the teacher is both a good classroom instructor AND has deep knowledge in their field. I have a Masters degree in English, and continuing credits in education, not the other way around. Not to be a jerk, but the education classes I took were not rigorous and would not have prepared me to teach AP. Years of high level literary reading and demanding literary analysis assignments in undergrad and grad were what did that…

Sorry to write so much, but I think some of this might be helpful for parents to know.

And as I always say, we won’t get consistently top quality educators until we demand more, respect them more and pay them more. It’s how every other field works and education is no exception :)[/quote]

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