AP Seminar – Beth Seletos

This session: AP Seminar – with Beth Seletos is offered ONLINE during Week 2: June 22-25, 2026.

Meet your APSI Consultant for AP Seminar

I earned my undergraduate degree in Secondary English Education from the University of South Florida and currently teach at JW Mitchell High School in a suburb just north of Tampa. I am in my 23rd year of teaching, with 18 of those years spent in AP Literature and 11 years spent in AP Seminar. I am a previous JW Mitchell Teacher of the Year and was a finalist for the Pasco County District Teacher of the Year award.

In addition to teaching Advanced Placement classes, I have also worked directly with The College Board in several capacities. Since 2018, I have been a College Board-endorsed consultant, teaching both online and in-person at various APSIs across the country, including locations such as Molloy University, The University of Texas at Arlington, Fordham University, Pacific Lutheran University, and the University of San California San Diego. I served on the AP Seminar Standard Setting Committee, where I worked with college faculty and other high school teachers to review the achievement level descriptions and cut scores for the AP exam. 

I have also participated in the summer AP Seminar reading, the scoring event that takes place yearly in the summer. I hold several leadership and instructional coaching positions at my high school. I have been my school’s academic writing coach, conducting monthly professional development sessions designed to encourage and support writing across the curriculum. I was the chairperson of the ELA Matriculation Committee, collaborating with our feeder middle school to coordinate vertical alignment of English instruction between grades 6 through 12. At the district level, I have led the AP Capstone District Professional Learning Community, where I coordinated monthly meetings of all the Capstone teachers in my county; this PLC helped support new and experienced Capstone teachers throughout the in-class performance task requirements. 

I have also conducted several school- and county-wide workshops on writing best practices, including:

1. 1. “Writing Across the Curriculum: The Multiple-Choice Claim Paragraph” – using short claim paragraphs

to explain the reasoning behind the answer selection in a multiple-choice question.

1. 2. “Hexagonal Thinking: Making Connections in Both Fiction and Non-Fiction Sources” – making

connections between related elements within a text.

1. 3. “Meaningful Conversations: More Feedback, Less Time” – strategies for using Canvas to offer specific feedback and to instigate a reflective conversation.

   4. “Ramping Up the Rigor in Academic Writing” – developing a logical line of reasoning in both fiction and non-fiction academic writing.

   5. “Claim/Reason/Evidence in Academic Writing” – employing the claim/reason/evidence model in fiction and non-fiction academic writing.

   6. “Integrating Non-Fiction into the Classroom” – using short, Lexile-appropriate reading passages to meet varying levels of student ability.

In my free time, I enjoy tackling home improvement projects as well as participating in outdoor activities that take advantage of the Florida sunshine.

APSI Session Description

This 30-hour training will provide you with the instructional tools necessary for the successful

implementation of the AP Capstone Seminar course. Working in both whole group sessions and small group breakout rooms, we will explore the Capstone QUEST curriculum framework and the required student proficiency standards. We will then move into a deep dive of the Seminar assessments: the through-course performance tasks and the end-of-course exam.

Once you know where you are going, I will help you plan how to get there! We will break down the student proficiencies into specific skills and discuss how to teach them in the first few weeks of your course. To help with this, I will share a pacing guide that will offer an example of one way to organize your weekly lessons to ensure you cover the skills needed to achieve proficiency.

Teachers want concrete lesson ideas that are proven to work, right? Well, don’t worry, I got you.

Throughout the training, I will share lessons from my own classroom that you can adopt as your own or use as inspiration for creating your own activities. By the end of the week, you will learn about the AP course audit requirements, and I will offer guidance and share multiple examples to help you begin developing a syllabus that meets these requirements.

Regardless of whether you are a seasoned veteran or new to teaching, AP Seminar will challenge you in the very best way! I promise this: you are going to love teaching this class.