Barbour, M. K., & Brooks, S. (2001, June). Centre for Advanced Placement Education and the tele-teaching of AP social studies courses. Presentation at the Hook, Line & Net conference, Grand Falls/Windsor, NL.

1. Centre for
Advanced Placement
Education

2. Agenda
What is the CAPE?
Why CAPE?
The CAPE Initiative
CAPE - Two Years Later
Lessons Learned
Future Plans

3. What is CAPE?

4. What is the CAPE?
A group of teachers and administrators
within the Vista School District,
primarily based out of Discovery
Collegiate
An online centre for Advanced
Placement education studies, with a
concentration on the AP Social Studies
courses

5. Why CAPE?

6. Why CAPE?
Similar opportunity in
intermediate programme
Concentration on
Mathematics and Science in
secondary programme
Little opportunity for
Social Studies, particularly
advanced options

7. CAPE Initiative

8. The CAPE Initiative
In many instances, smaller
rural schools can only offer the
standard curriculum
Distance education and the
WWW provide schools the
opportunity to go beyond the
standard curriculum without
devoting teacher allocation

9. The CAPE Initiative
AP Biology
Vista District Digital taught from Clarenville High
Intranet (VDI) Clarenville High - 2
Mustgravetown High - 7
Our Saviour King Academy - 1
Swift Current - 1
Joint venture of the Centre
for TeleLearning and Rural
AP Mathematics
Education and the Vista taught from Musgravetown High
School District Clarenville High - 6
Distance education project Mustgravetown High - 8
Southwest Arm Academy - 2
using AP Mathematics and
Science courses
AP Physics
Funded by Industry Canada taught from Centre (St. John’s)
Clarenville High - 2
St. Michael’s - 2

10. The CAPE Initiative
As seen with the VDI,
distance education projects
via the WWW were the
missing piece in the puzzle
to provide some equity
between rural and urban
schools
With this in mind, a Social
Studies based project was
born.

11. The CAPE Initiative
Delivery Model
Through WebCT
Asynchronous
Independent

12. The CAPE Initiative
Sources of funding
Community Learning
Networks Initiative
Grassroots
Generations
CanConnect
Network of
Innovative Schools

13. CAPE - Two Years
Later

14. CAPE - Two Years Later
AP European History (1999-2000)
The goals of this course are for students to gain knowledge of
basic chronology and major events and trends from
approximately 1450 to the present and to develop an
understanding of some of the principle themes in modern
European History, an ability to analyze historical evidence, and
an ability to analyze and express historical understanding in
writing.
Students who take this course and achieve a level 3 or higher on
the AP exam are eligible for six 2nd year credit hours at
Memorial University of Newfoundland.

15. CAPE - Two Years Later
Students Taught from
Discovery Collegiate
3 students
Discovery Collegiate - 2 First-year teacher
Clarenville High - 1 Instructor’s 8th course
16-18 credits/student on a 5X8 timetable
Student #1 - 16 credits
RESULTS:
Student #2 - 17 credits
Student #3 - 18 credits 5 - One student
No class time provided 4 - One student
for instruction 3 - One student

16. CAPE - Two Years Later
AP Comparative Government and Politics
Discovery Collegiate - 1
AP European History
Discovery Collegiate - 1
Clarenville High - 2
Woburn Public High - 2
AP Human Geography
Discovery Collegiate - 5
AP United States History
Discovery Collegiate - 1
Courses slotted into students’ regular timetable

17. Lessons Learned

18. Lessons Learned
Delivery Model Students
An asynchronous model is Must be independent
workable using the AP Social learners
Studies curriculum
Must be highly
Online materials must be motivated
supplemented with printed
materials (in addition to the Source of motivation
textbook) must be self-
School visits by the instructor or motivation
an in-school supervisor are
useful for keeping students “up-
to-date”

19. Lessons Learned
Woburn Public High School
Asynchronous distance education model works not just
within a small geographic and administrative unit, but
regardless of geography
Selection of mediating teaching is crucial to the success of
both distance education students and the distance education
programme
Mediating teachers should not be content-based teachers,
but should have a strong background in technology and be
able to troubleshoot technical problems, both school-based
and course-based

20. Future Plans

21. Future Plans
Vista School District Outside District 8
Courses Pay-per-use
AP Comparative $300 tuition fee per course
Government and Politics does not include cost of
AP European History textbook or AP exam
AP Human Geography
AP United States History Asynchronous
Accommodate different
Exams start and finish dates
AP United States Accommodate different
Government and Politics timetables
Accommodate different
time zones

22. Centre for Advanced
Placement Education
HTTP://www.ncf.ca/cape/