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Advanced Placement courses can be beneficial to both students and the school. However, to have these courses be truly beneficial, teachers need to put forth strong efforts. Fortunately, there are resources online that can provide insight on how to help teachers implement AP in their schools as well as better the AP courses that are already established.

Bringing AP To Your School

Not all states require schools to provide Advanced Placement courses, so many do not have them available for students. However, having AP classes can help boost a school's yearly report card; it gives students more opportunities to succeed academically thus earning more points for their school (Zinth, 2016). Further, AP has been shown to help students succeed more in college through the rigorous course work and the opportunity to earn college credit (Moore & Slate, 2008). It is beneficial to have these advanced courses in schools, but what if they are not available in your school?

Fortunately, there are resources for teachers that want to bring AP to their school. A Blog By Concordia University - Portland is a great example of such resources. In their article, The Room 241 Team breaks down several steps that teachers can take to implement AP courses in their schools.
If you already have AP courses implemented in your schools, there are lots of resources online for teachers to better their Advanced Placement classrooms. College Board is a non-profit that works to help high school students move towards a successful future. They provide a variety of resources for both students and teachers on their website (https://www.collegeboard.org/). 

 One specific resource for teachers they provide is A Portrait of Advanced Placement Teachers' Practices. In this article, Paek, Ponte, Sigel, Braun, and Powers discuss teacher practices in AP as well as factors that affect these practices. They further discuss studies done in AP classes that analyze teacher practices. These finding provide insight on teacher practices specifically for AP courses.
https://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-05-09.pdf 


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