Transcript Advanced Placement Classes

Advanced Placement Classes
Corinth Holders High School
2014-2015
What are Advanced Placement
Courses?
• These are courses taught at a college level.
• They move at a quick pace with a lot of
information covered.
• Most of the courses, except AP Statistics and AP
Psychology are year long courses.Students can not
drop the second semester course.
• In May all students registered for an AP course
will take the AP exam for that course.
• See AP Profile eligibility.
What is an AP Score?
• Students take an AP exam for each AP course
they are registered for.
• They will receive an AP score in July.
• Depending upon the college/university they
plan to attend this AP score can allow
students to receive credit for college courses.
• Scores range from 1-5. Individual colleges
have their own standard for what will transfer
to their school.
Do all Colleges/Universities except AP
scores?
• Yes but they may be accepted as an elective
credit at certain schools.
• Check with each college; if you search AP
scores on any universities website it will give
you a list of AP courses and what particular
scores equate to what courses.
What if my student does not want to
take the exam?
• Johnston County Policy requires that all
students registered for an AP course must
take the AP exam.
• Each exam costs $87, if a student receives a
level 3-5 they will receive most of this back.
• There is financial assistance for student’s who
meet certain criteria, this can be discussed on
a case by case basis.
AP Profile
• The AP Profile requires that a student meet
certain pre-requisites before taking an
Advanced Placement Course.
• Most courses have a minimum PSAT/PLAN
score
• Pre-requisite courses that a student must earn
a grade of A or B.
• Teacher Recommendation(s)
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• If 4 of 4 or 3 of 4 prerequisites are met a
student will be placed in the AP course
requested.
• If a student meets 2 of 4 prerequisites a
student can be placed in with a signed parent
waiver.
• If a student meets 0 or 1 of 4 prerequisites a
student will NOT be placed in the requested
AP course.
What AP courses are taught at CHHS?
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AP Calculus AB/BC
AP Statistics
AP Psychology
AP Language
AP Literature
AP Physics
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
1. Additional AP courses
are offered through
NCVPHS on an
individual basis.
2. AP US History (this
course will be
reformatted to meet the
new American History
I and American
History II
requirements)
Syllabi
• Each teacher is required to submit a syllabus
to College Board at the start of the year.
• Teachers either give a copy of or post their
syllabus on their webpage.
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• A full syllabus can be found on the individual teacher
webpages.
1. AP Calculus AB/BC – Elizabeth Shepard
2. AP Statistics – Theresa Gale
3. AP US History – Richard Nixon
4. AP Language – Kathi Nixon
5. AP Literature – Teresa Cortez
6. AP Biology – Nicole Willits (2012-2013)
7. AP Chemistry and AP Physics - Andy Srinivasan
8. AP Psychology - Ronald Honeycutt
AP Courses on NCVPHS
• In limited cases students are allowed to take an
AP course on North Carolina Virtual Public High
School
• This is a self guided process and students will have
the same amount of work as courses offered in
the classroom and will be expected to pace
themselves with help from their online teacher.
• Most AP courses on NCVPHS are offered as year
long courses.
• If we offer an AP course at school NCVPHS is not
an option.
Johnston County Board Policy
Policy Code: 3240 Student Participation in High School Advanced Placement Courses
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The purpose of Advanced Placement courses is to provide the opportunity for high school
students to earn college credit by scoring at an appropriately high level on Advanced Placement
exams. All students enrolled in Advanced Placement Courses will take the Advanced
Placement exam. Parents will be expected to pay for the exams, except when financial hardship
can be documented. Parents will be reimbursed the cost, less an administration fee, of any
exam on which the student scores a 3 or higher.
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High standards must be maintained for students to be successful in Advanced Placement
courses. Pre-requisites shall be established to insure that students entering Advanced
Placement courses are well prepared. Students should consider limiting the number of
Advanced Placement courses they take in a year to no more than two. Adequate teaching
resources must be provided to the teacher. Teachers must be trained to teach Advanced
Placement courses and be retrained every three years to insure their capacity to successfully
teach the course. Teachers must use the Course Description provided by the Educational
Testing Service as a foundation for teaching Advanced Placement courses.
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The rigor and expectations of Advanced Placement courses shall be clearly communicated to
parents and students in the spring of the year prior to enrollment in Advanced Placement
courses. During this orientation students and parents will be informed that students enrolling in
Advanced Placement courses may not withdraw from the course any later than the fifth school
day.