Giving Students the Choice to Succeed at AP History​

A teacher explains how allowing students to make their own choices as much as possible led to success in his AP History classes By James Simmons Over the last school year, adapting to distance learning and then hybrid environments with both online and in-person students has been a challenge for me just as it has been for teachers and students across the country. While it has certainly been challenging, I think my AP History students have fared pretty well. They have yet to take their AP Exams, but comparing this year’s scores on unit tests to last year’s shows an …