Hello,
I am coming to you today to ask a question to see if my teachers decisions are allowed. For Ap comp sci principles, we are given 2 performance tasks due on April 30th to college board. One of which is an explore task in which college board says we will be given 8 hours minimum in class to work on it;however, our teacher has given us 3 hours in class and 2 weeks to work on it making it due on the 15th of December (same time as midterms, finals, etc). Im wondering if what he is doing is allowed and what i should do, if possible, to persuade him to change his schedule.
I’m also enrolled in AP CSP, though I myself plan on devoting time over break to finish the Explore Task.
In your situation, I would advise confronting her head-on to state you need more time. If you present yourself respectfully, I’m sure she will be lenient.
For whatever reason, if she decides to not budge, I would put together a poorly made artifact which serves the sole purpose of earning the points for the assignment. The criteria for grading the task if quite vague, so I’m sure any point deductions would be dismal. Then during break, dedicate a more substantial portion of time to redo the completion of your artifact.
Best of luck and PM me if you have any other questions!
A friend of mine confronted the teacher and he gave half a response saying that he was on his own scheduale.
Seems i forgot to mention,
We have to turn in the project to both college board AND the teacher by the 15th. 10p off each day after
I taught AP CSP last year. You should be given the full 8 hours in class. You also should be allowed to work on the project at home. Although you might be able to upload your Explore task to the college board website, it cannot be submitted until some time closer to the April 30th date (I think it was well after March last year) when AP registration is complete and you have your AP student ID that can be linked to your file. Your teacher is NOT allowed to be grading your submissions…ever … because you have until 4/30 to actually upload them. Grading or any evaluation is against the rules.