During this AP English Literature and Composition for New Teachers APSI, you’ll explore the course framework, the exam, and the new AP resources that will help you plan and focus instruction—and give you feedback throughout the year on the areas where individual students need additional focus. You’ll also learn about completing the digital activation process at the start of the school year that will give you immediate access to the new resources and will help ensure that your students can register for AP Exams by the new fall deadlines. By attending this APSI, you’ll gain deeper insight into the following key takeaways, among several others: Understand the Course; Plan the Course; Teach the Course; Assess Student Progress; and Engage as a Member of the AP Community. In addition, specific attention will be paid to the following AP Classroom resources: unit guides, personal progress checks, AP teacher community, and the AP question bank.

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Robert Wofford is a retired teacher of AP English Literature at Las Cruces High School in New Mexico, and was also a facilitator for gifted and talented students. A College Board endorsed AP English Literature Consultant, he has presented at numerous conferences and Advanced Placement Summer Institutes in the United States and has repeatedly presented at the national Advanced Placement Annual Conference. He is a member of the College Board's Consultant Advisory Panel and has participated in National Endowments for the Humanities' summer seminars for secondary school teachers, (studying Dante in Siena, Italy, and Thoreau at Walden Pond) and he taught for one year in Canada as a Fulbright exchange teacher. Mr. Wofford has been a reader for the AP English Literature exam and he holds a BA in English education and an MA in English with a focus on rhetoric and the teaching of writing from New Mexico State University. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Education for Las Cruces Public Schools.