Implementing Pre-AP for Teachers

Get to Know Pre-AP

• Explore our informational videos and FAQs.
• Read the best practices used by successful schools: Pre-AP for All, course frameworks, assessments, and professional learning.
• Make sure you know your school’s Pre-AP coordinator. They’ll act as your point person for the program.
• Familiarize yourself with your Pre-AP course frameworks.
• Meet with colleagues to plan how you’ll use current curricular resources to align to the framework. The framework is not a curriculum.
• We recommend you review course frameworks for all Pre-AP courses at your school—even for subjects you don’t teach—so that courses can support each other instructionally.

Before the Academic Year Starts: Professional Learning

• Complete Course Audit to gain access to Pre-AP Classroom.
• Complete professional learning, either by attending an in-person or virtual Pre-AP Summer Institute or by completing the Online Foundational Module Series plus at least one Online Scoring Module.
• Get familiar with Pre-AP Classroom, where you’ll find resources such as the model lessons and assessments. Use the Pre-AP Classroom User Guide for Teachers and students to help you learn more.

At the Beginning of the Academic Year

• At the beginning of the academic year, work your coordinator to determine a plan helping students create their College Board accounts and access Pre-AP Classroom.
• Align your instruction to the course framework.

During the Academic Year

• At appropriate points, administer all performance tasks and at least one of the two learning checkpoints per unit.
• Connect with colleagues at other schools through the Pre-AP Teacher Community.
• Complete at least one Online Scoring Module.