AP Psychology

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Course options: Live or Asynchronous

Grades: 10th-12th | Successful completion of 10th grade English course

Course dates: August 17, 2026 to May 2027 (AP exam)

Course length: Traditional, full year

Live Sessions - attendance required: Mondays | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern

Course size:

Live: 15 students
Asynchronous: 50 students

Instructor: Emily Hinman

Cost:

Tuition: Live $875 | Asynchronous $845
Digital website access: $55 (includes course eBook)

More about Emily Hinman

Emily Hinman brings nearly 20 years of international experience in education to Blue Tent. After graduating from Cleveland State University with an MA in Clinical Counseling Psychology and a School Psychologist license, she and her husband moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, where she taught Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Precalculus, and AP Calculus.

Moving then to Vilnius, Lithuania, she taught AP Psychology and worked as a Guidance Counselor at the American International School of Vilnius. Along this journey, she obtained a teaching certification in Special Education and Mathematics from the University of Missouri and a Graduate Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning from Johns Hopkins University.

In Skopje, Northern Macedonia, she began teaching online, and she has worked online with students from all over the world over the last seven years, teaching Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Precalculus, AP Statistics, and AP Psychology.

Currently, Emily lives on a small farm in Ispank, Hungary, with her husband, four children, four dogs, five chickens, and two rabbits. Her children all attend a local Hungarian school, learning Hungarian as a native language. Emily and her husband take full responsibility for teaching them to read and write in English as well as to become productive members of the household. The Hinman family loves reading, cooking, hiking, gardening, and running together.

Emily understands the importance of technology in our lives. She believes that to work effectively with young learners, she needs to incorporate new educational resources that capture their attention. At the same time, she has a deep desire to maintain strong personal relationships in her classes. Her goal is for students to feel they are working with a caring person who can be trusted to help them learn from both their successes and failures.

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The digital website access ($55) purchased through Blue Tent includes:

An eBook of Bedford, Freeman & Worth's Myers' Psychology for the AP Course (2024, 4th edition) by Myers, DeWall & Hammer.
- This well-regarded text has been revised and adapted to follow the College Board's newly updated curriculum framework.
- The eBook can be accessed on or off-line and has a number of helpful interactive features such as allowing a student to highlight, take notes, change the font, and listen to the text content using its audio reader.

"I just really wanted to send you an email thanking you. The way you split up your class [AP Psychology] and had us to the practice exam really helped me on the real exam. I remember starting the class a month later than everyone and being stressed to catch up but now I can't believe the class is over! Everything I see in real life and all my interactions with people I always relate it to psychology. When someone cuts me off in traffic I think of the fundamental attribution error or when I see my 6- or 12-year-old siblings do something I automatically think of Erickson and Piaget’s theory! I definitely think you prepared us a lot for this exam and all the practice tests from the book really helped me. I also really appreciated how you took time to read my projects and assignments and then give me book and TV recommendations. I will definitely be reading that book you told me about and watching that show. I will definitely be recommending this class to others! The projects we did also made me realize a lot of things about myself and I definitely want to go back and read them."

"You made us relate to it in real life which made want to do it because it might be helpful in the future. I very much enjoyed forums, especially when they connect to a personal story or opinion. They are an easy way to learn a concept and how to apply it to your own life which motivates you more. I enjoyed how you put extra videos and ted talks about how the topic applies to more than just the content it is, and now I cannot go a day without applying something from AP Psych to everyday life and I'm so happy I have that knowledge now! I think AP Psychology made me more understanding of others, but also more aware of myself and my own thoughts and feelings."

"I really liked how you put a personal comment after each assignment. Most teachers just say "well done" or something, but I could tell you really enjoy psychology with the perspectives you gave. It gave me more interest in psychology and to study the material!"

"I found that the way you constantly engaged us in class [AP Psychology] and in our homework, connecting what we learned to the bigger picture, allowed for us to find our own intrinsic motivation. I also found that this was emphasized and encouraged through our unit projects. It also helps to have a teacher who is truly passionate about what we are learning!"

See the 2025 AP Psychology exam scores our students earned HERE.

Course Details

This live online and lab science AP Psychology course, which complies with the AP course audit and has been approved by the College Board, is for high school homeschoolers. It is the equivalent of a one-semester introductory college Psychology class. It is designed to introduce students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings and animals. Students are exposed to the psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology.

It can be taken live or in an asynchronous manner. Students will register for one mode (live or async) and stay in that mode during the year.

Live Classes: Students meet live with their instructor and classmates for 60 minutes once a week. These live sessions provide a review of topics covered in weekly lessons and a platform for class discussion and questions.
Asynchronous Classes: Students complete a video assignment once a week that similar to the live class discussion and complete other online discussions. This is NOT a self-paced class.

Format

Students share an interactive online classroom
Live option
- Students attend and actively participate in live classes weekly with cameras on.
Asynchronous option:
- Students watch a video recording and complete a discussion forum with their async classmates related to the week’s content.
- The asynchronous option is NOT a self-paced class. Students must complete assignments on a weekly basis.
- The instructional content, assignments, and deadlines are the same for live and asynchronous.
- Students will register for one mode (live or async) and stay in that mode during the year.
- If students cannot consistently attend the live class, they will be asked to move to the asynchronous class.
Individual Meeting Bookings offered throughout each week
Average weekly time estimate: 7-8 hours a week
All Blue Tent science/social science courses are NCAA-approved.
See our FAQs for:
- age/grade guidelines, prerequisites, and class fit recommendations
- a complete list of days, times, and breaks
- a list of CA charter schools where this course is a-g approved

Foundational Elements

Students use a teacher-provided text and video resources to complete lesson concept maps, work on small projects, and use resources provided by the College Board to prepare for the AP exam. A typical unit might include the following:
- Multiple short videos, PowerPoint presentations, and text links are provided to help students fill out lesson concept maps
- Quizzes to test understanding of terms and concepts
- College Board Progress Checks to assess students' mastery of topics
- Unit application projects so students can apply psychology in their daily lives. Most students come to know themselves and others more consciously through these projects. They are the real joy of the course.

● Concept maps are teacher-graded within 24 hours of submission.

● Students will self-grade their free responses on the CB progress checks in order to fully understand the College Board grading styles, and students receive individual feedback from their unit assessments.

Course Goals

Mastery of psychology’s core concepts: Students will prepare to do acceptable work on the AP Psychology Examination. Students will study the major core concepts and theories of psychology. They will be able to define key terms and use them in their everyday vocabulary.
The ability to graphically represent complex concepts: You should leave this course with the new ability to quickly, cogently, and graphically arrange your thoughts in graphical form.
Develop the ability to think like a psychologist: “restrain intuition with critical thinking, judgmentalism with compassion, and illusion with understanding” (Sternberg, 1997).
Develop the ability to apply Psychology to your life: The concepts that we study shape our existence. You will learn how to use the concepts and principles here to guide your life.
Students will learn the basic skills of psychological research: Literacy skills necessary for success in today’s world:
- Read real psychological research
- Write about psychology for your peers and for the general public
- Use databases and the internet to research new psychological studies
- Use problem solving techniques to solve real world problems
- Use technology to leverage the power of social media
- Collaborate with your peers
- Orally present and debate a complex argument based on psychological research