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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. There is no teaching in any of her AP classes this year. [/quote]

How do you know this?

Are you in class with her?[/quote]

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. [/b]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. [b]

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

At my son’s back to school evening the APUSH teacher explained that students got their first tests back and he is aware that most students are used to getting above 100% on tests because they get extra credit and are shocked that they got below 70 percent on the first test.

He said students come up to him and say, “but I watched extra YouTube videos, I listened in class, I reviewed my notes, I made 100 flash cards and got a C or D. [b]And he tells them what he told them the first day- This is a college level class where you are required to read the textbook. There is no substitution for actually reading every single one of the assigned pages.”
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So now I can see what he is talking about. There are only 5 slides because your kid is expected to independently read the 30 pages. [/quote]

This is precisely what the kids have been doing. They are reading and taking notes. But because there is no one going over the material (the 5 slides is in a different class), discussing it, contextualizing it, etc. in class, retention is poor. At least for my kid, her studying involves reading and taking notes, listening to at least two separate YouTube teachers who teach the class (their emphasis is slightly different, so she gets more out of it than listening to one), then using supplemental material I bought to go over overarching themes, SAQs, MCQs, etc. It's like that for all 3 of her AP courses this year. She would do just as well if she never attended a single class; in fact, she'd probably do better since she'd have a few extra hours to go over the material.

She is doing fine in terms of grades so far. In one of her classes, her teacher asked her to come to him after class, and asked her what material she was using to study because she got the highest grade he has ever given out on that particular unit test. She is just incredibly stressed because teaching yourself a whole day's worth of material after coming home is incredibly time consuming and exhausting.[/quote]

Thank you so much for speaking up. I feel everything about this post relates to us as well, even down to we don’t need to be in class and would have more time to do it/ My child is incredibly stressed and exhausted this year due to this one class.

Can I ask how long it takes your child to read one section from AMSCO and take notes, let alone 2?[/quote]

[b]AMSCO isn't an approved AP textbook.[/b] That is an extra supplement but students should be provided with an AP textbook that meets the college board standard. These are the ones for AP World:

Adler, Philip J. and Randall Pouwels. World Civilizations. 8th edition. Cengage Learning, 2018. 
Beck, Roger, B., Black, Linda, Krieger, Larry, S., Naylor, Phillip, C., and Dahia Ibo Shabaka. World History: Patterns of Interaction. McDougal Littell, 2005.       
Bentley, Jerry, Herbert Ziegler, and Heather Streets Salter. Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, AP® UPDATED Edition. 6th edition. McGraw-Hill Education, 2016. 
Bulliet, Richard W., Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel R. Headrick, Steven W. Hirsch, Lyman L. Johnson, and David Northup. The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. 7th edition. National Geographic/Cengage Learning, 2018. 
Duiker, William J., Jackson J. Spielvogel. World History. 9th edition. Cengage Learning, 2019. 
Dunn, Ross and Laura Mitchell. Panorama: A World History Volume 2. McGraw-Hill Education, 2018. 
Ellis, Elizabeth Gaynor and Anthony Esler. World History: The Modern Era. Prentice Hall, 2009. 
Getz, Trevor, Bennett Sherry, Bridgette Byrd O’Connor, Eman M. Elshaikh, et al. World History Project AP. OER Project, 2021. 
Hansen, Valerie and Kenneth R. Curtis. Voyages in World History. 3rd edition. National Geographic/Cengage Learning, 2016. 
Kordas, Ann, Ryan Lynch, Brooke Nelson, and Julie Tatlock. World History, Volume 2 from 1400. OpenStax, 2022.
Pollard, Elizabeth, Clifford Rosenberg, and Robert Tignor. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, AP Edition. 1st edition. W.W. Norton, 2015. 
Stearns, Peter N., Marc Jason Gilbert, Michael B. Adas, and Stuart B. Schwartz. World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Revised AP edition. 8th edition. Pearson, 2021. 
Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World. 5th edition. Bedford, Freeman & Worth.  
Strayer, Robert W. and Eric W. Nelson. Ways of the World with Sources, for the AP® Course. 4th edition. BFW Publishers/Bedford/St. Martin's, 2019. 
Von Sivers, Peter, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George B. Stow. Patterns of World History: Combined Volume. 2nd edition. Perfection Learning, 2014. 
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Roger B. Beck, Jerry Davila, Clare Haru Crowston, and John P. McKay. A History of World Societies, Combined Volume. 11th edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017. [/quote]

That's just great! Apparently the AP trained teacher is not even using the right textbooks. I don't even know where my child is going to find the time to read two books, one for class, one to meet AP guidelines.[/quote]

I wouldn’t listen to that. Oakton is using AMSCO as well for AP World.[/quote]

Not for all units from what I’ve heard.
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