AP Psychology – Steve Jones

This session AP Psychology – with Steve Jones is offered IN PERSON during Week 2: June 22-25, 2026 at Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia.  

Meet your APSI Consultant for AP Psychology

Steve Jones as taught AP Psychology and/or intro psychology for about twenty-five years in Durham, North Carolina. For four years he served on the College Board’s AP Psychology Test Development Committee and has been an active Reader and Table Leader at the annual AP Reading since 2012.

He’s served as chair and member at large on the committee of the American Psychological Association’s Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS). He’s been awarded national excellence in high school psychology teaching awards from TOPSS (2016) and the APA’s Society for the Teaching of Psychology (2020).

He has presented at a dozen national conferences on the teaching of psychology including the Psych One Conference, AP Annual Conference, and the NCSS Annual Conference. Steve is a National Board Certified teacher in the area of Adolescence and Young Adulthood/Social Studies-History. He is a co-founder of the blog Teaching High School Psychology and serves as a moderator for the AP Psychology Teachers group on Facebook.

Steve lives in Durham with his wife and children, and loves crossword puzzles, baseball, and travel.

APSI Session Description:

This four-day institute is intended to help both new and experienced instructors of AP Psychology. The session will be personalized to meet the needs to the individual participants but will also cover necessary information regarding the AP exam structure, philosophy, and assessment.

Preparation for both the multiple-choice and free-response portion of the exam will be addressed as well as a simulation of how the FRQs are graded. While the session will cover all units in the AP curriculum, we will spend an extended period on research methods as a theme that runs throughout the course and is covered each year by one of the two free-response questions. In addition to focusing on the content of the research unit, we will focus on pedagogy and resources provided by the College Board. Emphasis will be placed on topics that are often challenging for students and instructors.

By the end of the week, new instructors to AP Psychology should have the tools necessary to teach and engaging and informative AP Psychology course, while experienced teachers should leave with new activities, demonstrations, and resources to use with their students.