La Researche Faire
AP Seminar Teachers: level up your stimulus follow-up
There's a million things out there that a teacher can do with the AP Capstone Seminar stimulus materials. For years I gave my students a quiz and then sat back while they did a Socratic seminar, grappling with themes and brainstorming questions. I've seen teachers do murder walls, jig saw posters, centers, expert centers, debates... you name it. The last few years, I've also incorporated Hexagonal Thinking into my repertoire (and I left those slides in the PowerPoint attached below).
But what comes next? How do you encourage your students to start strong and not procrastinate on their research? What are some ways that you can get your students some help and feedback, since we teachers have our hands tied when it comes to the performance tasks? And for those of us more traditional schedules, how do we fight the end of year complacency and keep students motivated into the fourth quarter of the school year?