Pre-AP
What Is It?

 

What is Pre-AP?   Pre-AP is Pre-Advanced Placement.

It is a concerted effort to fulfill the College Board mission to champion educational excellence for ALL students.

Pre-AP is consistent with the College Board's Advanced Placement Program policies.  It is committed to the principle that ALL students deserve an opportunity to participate in rigorous and academically challenging courses.

Pre-AP is a set of content-specific strategies to:

build rigorous curricula

promote access to AP for all students

introduce skills, concepts and assessment methods to prepare students for success when they take AP and other challenging courses

strengthen curriculum and increase the academic challenge for all students

What does Pre-AP Mean to Garner?

Garner is moving from the Honors curriculum in the 7th and 8th grades to the Pre-AP courses to replace the Honors courses previously taught.

Our teachers are attending workshops to become certified in Pre-AP instruction.  Pre-AP teaches and reinforces crucial academic skills in the greatest possible number of students, beginning in the middle school years.  It enables a broader segment of the student population to benefit from a rich and rigorous curricula, promote access to AP for all students, introduce skills concepts, and assessment methods to prepare students for success when they take AP and other challenging courses in high school.  Pre-AP courses are designed to make parents ands active participant in their child's academic progress.  Therefore there is a mandatory parent meeting for those interested in their child taking these courses.