AP CSP Summer Institute

Are you a teacher planning or interested in teaching AP Computer Science Principles or a current Computer Science A teacher? Or are you an administrator looking to expand your school's AP offerings? AP has an exciting opportunity for you. AP is offering an online Summer Institutes to help you explore the AP Computer Science Principles course and the AP Computer Science A course and exam.

AP Summer Institutes offer the most thorough professional learning available for AP educators. Attendees engage in 30 hours of content-rich training designed to strengthen how they teach their AP courses.

As part of this opportunity, you will receive a $250 stipend for attending, one year of Plus Membership to the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and your registration fees will be covered by AP.

You’ll leave your AP Summer Institute experience with ready-to-use strategies and pedagogical tools shared by an experienced educator within the AP community.

If you're interested, please fill out our interest form below by January 31, 2025.

What is the AP Summer Institute?

AP Summer Institutes offer the most thorough professional learning available for AP educators. Attendees engage in 30 hours of content-rich training designed to strengthen how they teach their AP courses.

You’ll leave your AP Summer Institute experience with ready-to-use strategies and pedagogical tools shared by an experienced educator within the AP community.

• Explore each section of the course and exam description, including the unit guides, while making connections to the course curricular requirements
• Begin to develop a course plan by unit and topic that incorporates the full scope of your AP course into your school’s academic calendar
• Examine formative and summative assessment items to identify content and skill pairings that are the targets of these assessments and create lesson plans to reinforce content and skill connections
• Practice applying the scoring guidelines from the most recent AP Exam to samples of student work
• Identify student strengths and weaknesses using data available through AP Classroom and Instructional Planning Reports
• Explore ready-to-use strategies, instructional materials, and pedagogical tools pertinent to the content and skills required for success in your AP course
• Develop meaningful connections within the AP community
• You’ll explore these AP resources in-depth: Unit Guides, Topic Questions, Progress Checks, Question Bank, Instructional Planning Reports, Syllabus Development Guides, Sample Syllabi, and the AP Community.