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Advanced Placement* Summer Institute Faculty
Michael Kim, AP* US History
Michael Kim has taught AP* U.S. History for ten years at Schurr High School in Montebello, California. He has also taught the AP* Government & Politics and AP* Economics courses. He has been a reader for the U.S. History exam for seven years. For the past three years Michael has been a College Board workshop consultant in AP* U.S. History and Pre- AP* workshops. This summer, he will be a presenter for AP* U.S. History at the AP* National Conference in Seattle.
In addition to providing a tremendous amount of resources and ideas, he takes pleasure in instilling a sense of mission and enthusiasm in the participants who are and will be teaching AP* U.S. History. Being very proficient in utilizing technology in the classroom, he provides many useful strategies to participants in the use of technology. Michael is excited to share many of his unique strategies and methods, which have been well received by his colleagues in the course.
Anton Striegl, AP* World History
Anton Striegl lives in Long Beach, California. He received his Bachelors degree and teaching credential from California State University, Long Beach. At CSULB Anton was introduced to a strong program of Global World History, led by Dr. Ken Curtis and Professor Tim Keirn. Over the past 10 years, Anton has maintained strong ties to the University and used that experience to help build successful AP* World History programs in Long Beach, Compton, and now Santa Ana. Anton currently teaches AP* World History at Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana California and he also teaches a course in the Teacher Training program at CSULB.
Anton brings a broad knowledge of Advanced Placement* Curriculum to his workshops. He has taught AP* U.S. History, AP* European History, and AP* World History over the past 10 years. Anton has experience as an exam reader for AP* European History, as well as AP* World History, where he is a table leader. Anton has also had the unique opportunity to participate in the process of sample selection and rubric setting at the AP* World History Exam reading over the past 5 years. This background in Advanced Placement*, global world history, and teaching strategies informs the curriculum of this AP* World History session.
Dan DeVitt, AP* US Government & Politics
Daniel graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1988, receiving a degree in American History with a minor in Political Science. In 1993 he received his MA in Political Science from San Francisco State University. He taught high school in San Francisco for ten years, including seven at Lowell High School, where he taught AP* Government. He currently teaches AP* Government at Menlo School in Atherton California. As a College Board faculty consultant, Daniel has conducted numerous AP* teacher workshops, including the College Board National Institute in 2002 and the Pacific AP* Institute from 2000-2006. He has been an AP* Government reader and table leader for the past nine years and served on the AP* Government Test Development committee from 2000-2004.
Sylvia Jones, AP* English Literature & Composition
Sylvia Jones is in her fifth decade of teaching English at Redwood High School in Marin County, California. Two years ago she returned to Redwood after five years of teaching AP* English at Saint Ignatius College Preparatory High School in San Francisco. She is a fellow of the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California, Berkeley and has served on the development team and as chief reader for the Golden State Honors Examination in Written Composition and other California writing tests. Sylvia also reads essays such as the Test of Written English and Praxis for the West Coast office of Educational Testing Service.
She has taught AP* English for two decades, and has been an AP* reader since 1990 and a table leader since 2001. Last summer she conducted AP* summer institutes at Southern Oregon University (in cooperation with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland) and at the University of Chicago. Her article on teaching Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man will be published in this year's AP* English Literature and Composition Professional Development Workshop Materials.
She was named one of the 15 best journalism teachers of America in 1989 by the Dow Jones Fund of the Wall Street Journal and Marin County Teacher of the Year in 1993.
Marilyn Elkins, AP* English Language & Composition
A Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, Dr. Marilyn Elkins was the Chief Reader for the Advanced Placement* Program Examination in English Language and Composition for 2000-2003. An English teacher for 25 years, she began her involvement with AP* as a public high school teacher in 1982. She has been reading AP* Exams since 1984 and has served as a Table Leader and a Question Leader. She was a member of the Test Committee for the AP* Literature and Language Examinations from 1999-2003 and wrote the 2001 Released Examination for English Language and Composition. She has presented at thirty-two Advanced Placement* Summer Institutes, the National AP* Conference (four presentations), and numerous one-day faculty development seminars; she also directs GLAAPSI, an AP* Summer Institute that is held annually on the Cal State Los Angeles campus. The author of five books, Dr. Elkins was selected as a CSULA Outstanding Professor, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Point and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and as a Fulbright Professor at the Université Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France. She holds a Ph.D.
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