Ted Morse, Advanced Placement American History teacher, Academic Dean and Director of College Placement at Antilles School, has been tapped to play a major role by the College Board and Educational Testing Service (ETS) in its Advanced Placement (AP) Program. Morse will begin a five-year term this May as the Head Secondary School Faculty Consultant to the AP American History Program.
Advanced Placement curricula are developed by the College Board and are a cooperative effort between secondary schools and colleges. High school students are exposed to college level work and the opportunity to earn college credits while in high school. Antilles offers AP courses in French, Spanish, Computer Science, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Micro Economics, Macro Economics and English Literature.
Morse, a graduate of Middlebury College and Tufts University, a Fulbright Scholar and published author, has been teaching at Antilles for five years. He began his involvement with Advanced Placement five years ago as an AP teacher, and began working with the College Board and ETS 20 years ago as a reader of AP history exams taken by students all over the United States. Then last year, he was asked to serve as "Exam Leader." In that position, he coordinated the standards for one of the questions on the exam and supervised the readers evaluating the answers to it.
Dr. Diane Vecchio, Chief College Faculty Consultant to the AP history exam, asked Morse to take on this new responsibility. "You have the competence and skills . . . and are well liked and respected by the other Exam Leaders and Table Leaders . . . I think we would make a good team," she wrote.
Morse said he has already begun thinking about handling the 750 readers and over 200,000 exams. "It is a wonderful tribute to the academic program at Antilles School in that a tiny school in the Caribbean has been selected to send a representative for a position as significant as this one," said Morse.
Headmaster Mark Marin echoed this pride in Antilles School and added, "I am also proud and happy for Ted Morse and for our students. Ted is a superstar teacher at Antilles. The author of the existing College Board published textbook for the AP American History course, he has earned this well-deserved accolade. It is nice for his students, our school and our islands to bask in his glow and celebrate and share in a bit of this recognition for excellence."