Advanced
Placement Biology Summer Institute
For High
School Teachers
Ferris State University
All Institutes
Endorsed by the College Board
State
Board Continuing Education Units (5) Awarded (no
charge)
Graduate
Credit (3) available for additional fee ($250)
June 20-26, 2010
Fee includes instruction, meals, textbooks and
supplies
All for an incredibly low price of $975
(NO credit NO housing)
$1,125 (NO credit with housing)
$1,225 (3 credits with NO housing)
$1,375 (3 credits with housing)
Biology
About the Institute: The Advanced Placement Institute for Biology is
an intensive six day Laboratory program. It is designed to provide AP
biology teachers with an introduction to the College Board's AP program
as well as provide each teacher with the basic tools needed to create a
successful AP laboratory program within his/her own classroom. Participants
will receive lab manuals, College Board manuals, textbooks, and resource
catalogs along with intensive hands-on instruction which includes performing
all 12 recommended AP labs. Participants will also be given valuable
cost-effective information regarding the ordering of materials and equipment
used with these labs.
The schedule for each day consists of pre-lab discussions,
followed by the lab itself including a special emphasis on developing the
analytical and writing skills students need to be successful with free response
questions based on the content of each lab. Students should also expect
evening lab sessions to be part of each day's schedule. Upon
completion of the Institute, teachers will have the skills, knowledge, and
confidence needed to successfully conduct and assess the content of these AP labs.
Instructors: John Gehring has twenty years of
experience teaching AP Biology and AP Biology Summer Institutes. He has
been both a Reader and Table Leader at the AP Biology Reading for the past
nineteen years and in 1999 was honored with the Siemans
Award for Advanced Placement given by the Siemans
Foundation. Assisting John is Robert Hamilton. Rob has fourteen
years of experience teaching AP Biology, ten years as an AP Biology Summer
Institute instructor and has been a Reader of the AP Biology exam for the past
6 years.
If you are staying
on campus, plan to arrive at Ward Hall on the university campus by 5:30 p.m.,
Sunday, June 20, to check into your residence hall room. Please note that the hall is not air
conditioned so you may want to bring a fan.
The Biology institute will begin on Sunday evening (June 20) at 6:30 pm. Participants should report to the Ferris
State University, Science Building, second floor, room 212. The institute will conclude on Saturday (June
26) at noon.
A specific agenda will be provided to you at that time for the entire
week. Beginning Monday, lab sessions
will run all day (8:30 an -5 p.m.) and evening (7-9 p.m.). All participants will be provided with lab
manuals, AP College Board manuals, and textbooks.
Housing:
Participants may arrange for university
housing when they register for an additional cost of $25 per night or a total
of $150 for the entire institute.
Otherwise, participants should reserve their own hotel/motel
accommodations in Big Rapids before arrival.
Graduate
Credit: If you are applying for the 3
graduate credits, you must complete an application form and return it before
June 1, 2010 to receive graduate credit.
The application can be faxed to 231-591-3539 or mailed. You will receive the application form when
you register.
Click here to Register On-Line
(Please note when you get to this
website, you need to click on new or sign-up to get a password so you can
register)
For
additional information contact Adam Wetherell,
University Center for Extended Learning, at 231-591-5824 or email
wetherea@ferris.edu.