AP Business with Personal Finance – Online Week 2 – Session 1 – Michael Kim

This session AP Business with Personal Finance – with Michael Kim is offered ONLINE during Event 2: June 22-25, 2026 

Meet your APSI Consultant for AP Business with Personal Finance

Michael Kim has taught at Schurr High School, in Montebello, California for the past 28 years. He has been a workshop consultant for the College Board since 2003 in AP United States History. Over the past two decades, he has had many opportunities to work on the advancement of this course. Specifically, with the redesign which took effect with the new exam in 2015 in which he has authored an AP United States test bank for a textbook publisher as well as reviewed and edited several AP texts. As a veteran AP consultant, he has mentored several of the newer consultants.

About eight years ago, he was finally able to put his MBA to use by teaching a Business Finance course at his school. The focus of the course was project-based portfolios in which students would engage in activities from annual budgets, credit card instruction, tax brackets, widget production, loan financing, investing and retirement planning. Michael was selected to pilot the course with its five units for this past year. He is excited to share what he has learned about the new course and how to teach it in a project-based learning style.

Michael has led several APSI sessions over the past few years and will make this experience interactive and entertaining and purposeful over the four days. He is as excited as you all are to see this amazing program grow in your schools.

About the Course and APSI Session Description: 

This program is an interactive professional development experience. It includes an AP Summer Institute and optional online support sessions focused on implementing a project based learning approach in an AP classroom. 

Project Implementation Guides: Provide adaptable course planning and pacing, recommended assessments and assignments that encompass the entirety of the course. 

Summer Institute: Four-day training in the summer. The workshop includes project simulations, large group discussions, small group activities, reflection and critique, and individual learning. During the Summer Institute, you will:  

• Identify how students learn AP content and skills through course projects.  

• Understand and apply high-quality PBL design elements and teaching practices. 

• Simulate and model PBL practices using examples from the course projects.  

• Adapt and prepare to implement the projects with your students.  

Support Sessions: Five optional online support sessions are offered throughout the academic year. These sessions will provide support and learning opportunities before the beginning of each project. In these support sessions, you will:  

• Reflect on prior project work to identify needs for future project implementation.  

• Review and adapt the upcoming project to best serve your students.  

• Refine your PBL practice within the context of a project based AP course.

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