AP Spanish Language and Culture – Maite Lamberri

This session: AP Spanish Language & Culture – with Maite Lamberri is offered IN-PERSON during Week 2: June 22-25, 2026 at Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia.

Meet your APSI Consultant for AP Spanish Language and Culture

Maite Lamberri is a native of Spain with extensive experience teaching ESL and Spanish. She holds a Bachelor Degree in English and Spanish Philology, and a Masters in Translation and Interpretation by the University of Valladolid in Spain and the University of Ottawa in Canada. She is a National Board Certified Teacher who has taught different levels of Spanish, Spanish for Native Speakers, IB Spanish and AP Spanish Language in North Carolina since 2001. She has worked at the high school, Community College, and University level throughout her career. Maite is currently teaching Spanish 4, AP Spanish Language and Culture at Chapel Hill High School. She has been part of the AP Reading Group for many years acting as an AP Reader, Table Leader and now as a Question Leader. 

Maite is an active member of FLANC, and has given several presentations sharing her love for teaching and learning with colleagues. She completed her AIG licensure through a program partnering the Elon University School of Education and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Maite is currently part of the Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning Cohort (CRTL Cohort) to continue her passion, learning. 

In addition to her vast experience, Maite works as a freelance translator. Her most recent project has been translating for the Department of Public Instruction in NC a series of resources ready to use for teachers in English and Spanish.

APSI Session Description

In this APSI session we will learn how our students can develop the necessary skills to become advanced language learners. We also will look into all components of the AP Spanish Language & Culture exam, how it is graded during the AP Reading process, and how to prepare students to succeed. We will examine ACTFL standards and how they correlate with the skills and tasks students will demonstrate in the AP Spanish exam. Additionally, we will explore all the resources available to teachers and students in AP Central and AP Classroom including sample materials and classroom activities relating to previous exams. We will also collaborate on developing authentic resources and classroom strategies to build a curriculum using authentic materials and following the thematic units recommended by the College Board.

Course Expectations: Daily attendance and active participation in a variety of individual and collaborative learning activities. Be willing to share your knowledge and expertise.

Prior to the APSI: Participants will receive the Course and Exam Description Handbook (CED), which includes the course framework, instructional approaches, and sample exam questions. In this handbook you will find detailed information about the units of study for all the required themes, achievement level descriptors, a range of teaching strategies, and exam information. It would be beneficial for teachers who are new to the AP program to review the course framework.

During the APSI you will learn:  

• Strategies to increase student motivation through authentic materials. 

• How to navigate and help student engage with AP Classroom. 

• Techniques to help students organize and improve written and spoken presentations. 

• Methods to increase student participation in interpersonal communication. 

• Effective grading and feedback strategies for the free response speaking and writing question to help students and to better manage your time.

• Development of cultural knowledge and understanding.

• Activities and assessments that build students’ communicative and cultural competence.

And you will:

• Examine a range of materials suitable for AP Spanish Language and Culture.

• Learn communicative methods to increase vocabulary acquisition.

• Understand how to build proficiency across the three modes of communication.

• Enhance the teaching of the reading.

• Create communicative activities for integrating all skills using authentic materials.

• Develop lessons around authentic resources.

• Integrate authentic literature in the AP Language and Culture class.

• Apply the scoring criteria to student samples.

2026 WaltonAPSI / AP Spanish Language and Culture – Session 2 / Maite Lamberri