Why Should Your School Start a Pre-AP Program?
Offering Pre-AP courses signals a school’s commitment to preparing all students for success in high school and beyond. Pre-AP courses deliver grade-level appropriate instruction through focused course frameworks, engaging instructional resources, and learning checkpoints.
Student Benefits
- Access and Opportunity: Instruction focuses on building important skills and confidence.
- Critical Thinking Skills: Students learn to apply evidence and think critically, not just memorize facts and figures.
- Cross-Curricular Alignment: Engage with interdisciplinary skills in all their courses, reinforcing conceptual learning.
Teacher Benefits
- Focus: Teachers spend time on fewer, more essential concepts to focus and truly engage students.
- Assessments for Learning: Use learning checkpoints and performance tasks to quickly check for understanding, focus on the right areas for improvement, and measure student growth.
- Engaging Model Lessons: Work with course content that features a curated selection of high-quality texts, sources, and authentic contexts.
Hear from Current Pre-AP Teachers
At the beginning of the year, not many students ask questions. They’re still nervous. After a few months of Pre-AP, they’re beginning to get the confidence to ask questions in a way that they never have before.
—Matthew (Pre-AP World History and Geography teacher, Illinois)
At first, my students could barely write complex sentences. A few months later, they’re composing five-paragraph essays.
—Deanna (Pre-AP English 1 teacher, Michigan)
Pre-AP Courses
Real learning happens when students can authentically relate to their material and see how skills fit together across all subjects. When schools employ multiple Pre-AP courses, students reinforce critical thinking skills in each classroom.
Pre-AP World History and Geography