AP Capstone Seminar Information Night January 29, 2018

AP Capstone: A Paradigm Shift from Content to Skills

LI Colleges are “Going Global”

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Trends: Increasing Global Nature

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Top College Application Considerations Growth & Potential

Have you been stretching yourself?

Have you been working to capacity in your academic pursuits?

Interests & Activities How have you achieved results? With what successes or failures?

What have you learned as a result?

Character & Personality What choices have you made for yourself? Why?

Contribution to College Will you be able to stand up to the pressures and freedoms of

college life?

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

10 Skills Employers Want Most 1. Ability to work in a team structure

2. Ability to make decisions and solve problems

3. Ability to communicate verbally with people inside and outside an organization

4. Ability to plan, organize and prioritize work

5. Ability to obtain and process information

6. Ability to analyze quantitative data

7. Technical knowledge related to the job

8. Proficiency with computer software programs

9. Ability to create and/or edit written reports

10. Ability to sell and influence others

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What is AP Capstone? An innovative diploma program that equips

students with independent research, collaborative teamwork and communication skills.

AP Capstone developed in response to higher ed. partners:

Research Skills Develop perspectives

Identify bias in sources Apply research methods Produce scholarly work

Communication Skills Work in teams

Work with mentors Team Presentations

Individual Presentations

Introducing - AP Capstone

AP Seminar Course Description The course is designed to teach the skills necessary to understand and

produce evidence-based arguments in a variety of methods. Students investigate real-world issues from multiple perspectives, gathering

and analyzing information from various sources in order to develop credible and valid evidence-based arguments.

Questions & Explore: Students will examine complex, real world theme such as power, intelligence, and ethics through scientific, political, economic, environmental, historical, ethical, cultural, social and futuristic lenses that reflect interdisciplinary interests.

Understand & Analyze: Students will practice understanding and analyzing arguments in a variety of formats including text, art, speech and performance to determine context, logic and purpose.

Evaluate Multiple Perspectives: Students will consider different ways of examining complex ideas in order to understand a variety of points of view to develop a better understanding of the subject.

Synthesize Ideas: Students will conduct their own research and build their own arguments on complex ideas and themes that are discussed in class using various lenses to practice critical thinking skills, and writing and presentation methods.

Team, Transform, and Transmit: Students will work together to build, and communicate arguments.

The Pinnacle of Distinction – AP Capstone Diploma™ This challenging program helps students deepen their passion for learning, gives them greater confidence

in their academic skills, and a broader perspective on their world.

There is a fee for this program of $142. This also includes unlimited access to EBSCO’s Search Complete.

Students who earn scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar and AP Research and on four additional AP Exams will receive the AP Capstone Diploma.

Students who earn scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar and AP Research will receive the AP Seminar and Research Certificate™

Investigate real-world topics from multiple perspectives

Carefully analyze information, write evidence-based arguments and effectively communicate them

Work independently and with a team to research a topic, develop a written report and deliver a presentation

AP Seminar Typically taken in grade 10 or 11.

Students learn how to:

Teachers & Students select and study 2-4 topics.

Example Topics

Democracy Education

Environment Revolution Technology

Sustainability

Exam score based on:

1. Team Project & Presentation

• 20%

( 2,000 words)

2. Individual Research-Based Essay & Presentation

• 35% (8 – 10 minutes)

3. End-of-Course Exam

• 45% (2 Hours)

The College Board has clearly defined the role of the teacher in preparing students for their AP Seminar Performance Tasks.

The Role of AP Seminar Teachers

Before Performance Task 1 and 2 have begun, teachers should:

• Make students aware of task components, requirements, deadlines, and scoring criteria. • Provide generic sample questions for research, discussion, and oral defense. • Conduct class instruction on the skills required for the performance tasks while working on their

research presentations. • Share rubrics with students.

• Encourage peer review and editing.

Once Performance Task 1 and 2 have begun, teachers may not:

• Assign provide, distribute or generate research questions for students. • Conduct or provide research articles, or evidence for students. • Write, revise, amend, or correct students work. • Give specific, directive feedback to individual students. • Identify specific questions for oral defense that students will be asked during their presentations.

Course Expectations Attendance : is an essential component of AP Seminar. Students cannot make up class discussions and activities by simply reading a text.

Effective Collaboration: is a necessity. Always respect yourself and others. Always act in a way that allows all students equal opportunity to learn. Always be tolerant of the opinions of your classmates.

Strong Time Management: skills are critical. Deadlines are communicated in advance. Plan accordingly in order to complete all assigned tasks. Consider your other academic obligations, Co and extra-curricular activities, as well your commitments outside of school.

Academic Integrity

Collaboration

Collaboration is the discussion of material and assignments for

the purpose of attaining clarification and producing deeper

insight. When collaborating, all explanations and

answers should reflect one’s own thinking

and ideas.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the division of the

assignment designed to limit how much work one student

must do; it is also the acquirement or

providing of one’s individual work to be

replicated by another.

According to the College Board, the student’s individual voice should be clearly evident, and the ideas of others must be acknowledged, and/or cited using a

variety of methods that will be practiced during the course. Please be mindful of the fact that this class demands academic collaboration,

however there is a difference between collaboration and plagiarism.

AP Capstone Policy on Plagiarism and Falsification or Fabrication of Information

In AP Seminar, a team of students that fails to properly acknowledge sources or authors on the Team Multimedia

Presentation will receive a group score of zero for that component of the Team

Project and Presentation.

A student who fails to acknowledge the source or author of any and all information

or evidence taken from the work of someone else through citation, attribution

or reference in the body of the work, or through bibliographic entry, will receive a score of zero on that particular component

of the AP Seminar Performance Task.

A student who incorporates falsified or fabricated information (e.g. evidence,

data, sources, and/or authors) will receive a score of zero on that particular component of the AP Seminar

Performance Task.

In AP seminar, a team of students that incorporates falsified or fabricated

information in the Team Multimedia Presentation will receive a group score of

zero for that component of the Team Project and Presentation

Design, plan, and conduct a year-long mentored, research-based investigation

Apply research methods and practices to address a real-world topic selected by the student

Write a college-level research paper

Present and orally defend research findings and methodology

AP Research

Students learn how to:

1. Academic Paper (4,000 - 5,000 words)

• 75%

2. Presentation and Oral Defense

• 25% (15 – 20 minute presentation)

Exam score based on:

AP Seminar is a prerequisite to AP Research (grades 11 or 12).

College Skills Career Skills

Analyzing Presentation

Evaluating Research

Research Writing

Test-taking Teamwork

Benefits for Students

Below are some of the 200+ colleges that have endorsed AP Capstone for its challenging interdisciplinary curricula.

Visit www.collegeboard.org/apcapstone for the latest list of colleges with credit policies for AP Seminar and/or AP Research.

61 Schools in New York State [from 30 2017] 31 on Long Island [from 17] • Amityville Memorial High School – Amityville

• Division High School – Levittown

• East Islip High School – Islip Terrace

• General Douglas MacArthur High School – Levittown

• George W. Hewlett High School – Hewlett

• Huntington High School - Huntington

• Island Trees High School – Levittown

• Islip High School – Islip

• Massapequa High School – Massapequa

• Oyster Bay High School – Oyster Bay

• Patchogue – Medford High School – Medford

• Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School – Plainview

• Sayville High School – Sayville

• Shoreham – Wading River High School – Shoreham

• The Wheatley School – Old Westbury

• Wantagh High School – Wantagh

• Westhampton High School – Westhampton Beach

• Kings Park High School

• Smithtown East/West High School

• John H. Glenn – Elwood

• Valley Stream Central / North/ South

• Jericho High School – Jericho

Long Island School Districts (Since 2014)

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