AP Course:

AP PYSCHOLOGY

Scott Reed

CONSULTANT: Scott Reed

Scott Reed is a native of Arizona and has been teaching AP Psychology for twenty-four years.  He has been reading essays for the College Board since 2004 and was twice on the committee for Teachers of Psychology in Secondary School (TOPSS), an affiliate of the American Psychological Association.  Scott was one of the participants in the National Summit on the Teaching of High School Psychology in Ogden during the summer of 2017.  He has presented at the National Council of Social Studies four times, and has written curriculum for a number of publishers.  Scott runs a list serve to get information to all the Arizona teachers, and he also assists with the planning of the Arizona Teachers of Psychology Conference.  He was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the TOPSS in 2010, and was the recipient of the Mary Margaret Moffett Award for High School by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology in 2021.

Scott and his wife live in Chandler, Arizona and have two adult children.  Their hobbies include working out together and going to many local sporting events and live music.  Scott does many local triathlons, and other running and cycling events.

Class Description:

This summer institute will provide teachers with a solid plan for having a successful Advanced Placement Psychology program.  The course will cover teacher needs such as pacing, unit and lesson development, syllabus approval, activities, and available resources.  The students’ needs of being able to write the essay, study for unit exams, as well as the AP test will be covered.  Teachers should leave feeling confident in teaching psychology as a science and having solid content knowledge and activities for the majority of the units covered in AP Psychology. 

AP Psychology adopted the new Curriculum and Exam Description on March 1st.  Much of the APSi will be focused on the new changes and getting resources ready for the coming school  year.  

We were told as consultants of the Directors could ask for a hardcopy of the CED. They aren’t doing binders anymore. I didn’t used to worry about it much because most people already had one. But it will be new for everybody this year.

Objectives/Outcome (subjet to change based on participants’ needs):

Day One:

  • Morning- Introductions, pacing, AP information, available resources

  • Research Methods unit. Afternoon- The AP Test, grading AP FRQs, Statistics unit

Day Two:

  • Morning- Cover first half of practice AP test, Biological Bases of Behavior unit

  • Afternoon- Sensation and Perception,  Guest Speaker

Day Three:

  • Morning- Cover second half of practice AP test, Development unit

  • Afternoon- Cognition Unit (learning, memory, intelligence, language)

Day Four:

  • Morning- Activities for many units, Social Psychology Unit, Personality Unit