There are a few common ways that Latin America is classified: By Romance language: Any country where the predominant language is a Romance language (a branch of the Indo-European language […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Not Easily Sold: One Human’s Evaluation of Using Class Companion’s A.I. to Score FRQs
Class Companion is the hot new gizmo that will likely blast some of your PD time during your start-of-the-year teacher institutes. Basically, Class Companion claims to accurately score your students’ […]
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The Case for Not Leading with Development in AP Human Geography
Because of our course’s thematic nature, many of us can rearrange the units in any order we choose. I have done this when I need to beat the snow for […]
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Protected: Password Protected: 2024 Collaborative Rubrics
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Review: ESRI’s GeoInquiries on NatGeo’s MapMaker 4.0 Platform
If you are a friend of ESRI’s GeoInquiries, this might be for you, as things have changed. If you do not know what they are, they are worth investigating. WHAT […]
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My 2024 APHG Recruiting Campaign
Tomorrow begins my 2024-2025 recruiting campaign, where I will jump into all of the freshman social studies classes and try to sell them the best course in high school. In […]
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2023 AP Human Geography FRQ Collaborative Rubric
Here it is! The 2023 collaborative rubric for the publicly released FRQ questions. If your students want to debrief the questions when they are released, here are some documents that […]
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A Personal Audit: Course Skills
After this past school year, the only thing that I want to do is look forward. Over the last few years I’ve tripped, fallen, and made some bad mistakes. But […]
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2022 AP Human Geography FRQ Collaborative Rubric
Here it is! The 2022 collaborative rubric for the publicly released FRQ questions. My students always want to debrief so we spend some time brainstorming together. Project the teacher version […]
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Professional Development: Geography’s History and Scope
If you are looking for a greater understanding of the development of geography as an academic practice, I came across a playlist of lectures that I am very impressed with. […]
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Professional Development: Explain the Strengths, Weaknesses, and Limitations of New Urbanism
I’m in a Gentrification & Urban Redevelopment Facebook group and an individual posted a list of sources that are critical of New Urbanism. They are good, and most of them […]
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Professional Development: APHG Reader’s Commentary on the 2021 FRQ Exam
A day after the 2021 AP Human Geography reading ended, I solicited advice from bleary-eyed readers about their observations. I was looking for feedback on where and how a script […]
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Professional Development: Did You Know that Heat maps aren’t Hot-Spot maps? I didn’t.
I was watching a video about spatial statistics this week and I learned that the beloved heat map is not the same thing as a hotspot map. I don’t expect […]
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2021 AP Human Geography FRQ Collaborative Rubric
Here it is! The 2021 collaborative rubric for the publicly released FRQ questions. My students always want to debrief so we spend some time brainstorming together. Project the teacher version […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: The Multi-Step Approach to Stimuli Analysis
*UPDATE: February 6th, 2021. New segments in italics. I am a “HuGe” (get it?) fan of our online PLT and the ingenious methods and procedures that help weave in course […]
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Teaching the UnderRepresented Voice through Graphic Novels
I’ve always embraced teaching the tough topics in my Social Studies classroom, but for a lot of students (and adults), starting the discussion can be tough to jump-start. In my […]
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Professional Development: Leveraging Peergrade.io for FRQs
For the remainder of my AP review season, I am leveraging a new platform called Peergrade.io and it allows just what it says. In a regular class setting, my students […]
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Crowdsource Opportunity: An FRQ a Day…
You know what they say… an apple a day, keeps the doctor away. So I’m doing my part to keep ’em inside with FRQ’s! I wrote original FRQ-styled review questions, […]
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Why I’ve Sent My Last Covid-19 Article to Students
Before you proceed: I am posting my opinion about addressing Covid-19 in the classroom (eClassrooms), and if you don’t agree, I gladly welcome a professional dialogue. We are all coping […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Scale vs. Scale of Analysis vs. Scale of Inquiry
Scale is a MASSIVE concept for the social sciences. Is phenomenon occurring at local levels? Is it regional? Is it global?
Do epidemics occurring at a local level have global implications?
How does war occurring at a regional level effect local economies?
Do global treaties impact national policies?
In Human Geography, scale is an extremely important concept that requires threading throughout the entire course.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Consequent or Subsequent?
Update: My favorite online geography teacher, the GeoEcologist just dropped a video that hopefully helps some of us. When I first started teaching human geography, I quickly realized that there […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Writing Stimulus-Based, Multiple Choice Questions
Like many of you, I am in the process of re-working my exams to get our kids aligned with the changes made to our exam. In the process, I’ve learned […]
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Professional Development: My new AP Binder and Me.
*The following post includes my personal observations and exciting experience bonding with my CED for the first time. These opinions are solely my own, and are not those of the […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Collaborative APHG Stimulus Bank
*Links to be included under the Facebook Group post. Collaborative APHG Stimulus Bank This is the brainchild of our creative master, and new teacher mentor Laura K. who gave me […]
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2019 AP HuGe Exam Collaborative FRQ Rubric
Here it is! The 2019 collaborative rubric for the released questions. I love using this with my students the following day to see their thoughts and further brainstorm ideas. Sometimes […]
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