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AP European History

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College Board Professional Learning

College Board offers both face-to-face and online professional learning for new and experienced AP teachers as well as AP coordinators. Led by experienced instructors, AP professional learning provides educators with the support and training needed to successfully teach an AP course.

AP Summer Institutes

June–August

AP Summer Institutes are offered online and in-person, with 30+ hours of content-rich training on the course and exam, leveraging AP resources, and strengthening teaching and learning. Participant grants are available for qualifying teachers.

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AP Summer Institutes

Learn more about these summer workshops, which offer the most thorough professional learning available for AP educators.

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AP Participant Grants

Each year, College Board awards grants for qualifying teachers to attend an AP Summer Institute. Learn more about eligibility and the application process.

AP Online Workshops

September–April

Online workshops are offered as a combination of live and on-demand sessions led by expert AP teachers. Targeted exercises will explore the course and exam, enable effective lesson planning using AP resources, and model using data-driven feedback year-round. 

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AP Workshops

AP offers both public online workshops and privately hosted workshops to help you plan and focus your instruction.

Teaching and Assessing

Teaching and Assessing AP European History gives you online access to sample free-response questions, examples of how to score student responses, videos of master educators modeling key instructional strategies, and resources to help implement these strategies in your classroom.

Teachers can access these self-paced modules at any time throughout the year and will earn 0.2 CEUs and a certificate for each module completed.

To access the training:

  1. Sign in at myap.collegeboard.org.
  2. Click the Go to AP Classroom link for AP European History.
  3. Click on the Overview page under Course Resources, then select the More tab.
  4. Click the Professional Learning link. The Teaching and Assessing course will open in a new browser tab.

AP Community

In this online space, you can:

  • Share real-time strategies, ask questions, and collaborate with teachers worldwide.
  • Search, add, and rate teacher resources with your peers in the resource library.
  • Daily or weekly digests help you keep up with your community, wherever you are. Select all discussions or just the topics and discussion threads you choose to follow. You can also reply to discussion posts through email.

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AP Community

Learn more about this online space for AP teachers, coordinators, and administrators to connect with colleagues and share classroom-ready materials.