Online Professional Development
America's History in the Making
Historian Gary Nash serves as lead advisor for this professional development series that begins with pre-contact Native American history and continues through Reconstruction.
America’s History in the Making is designed to enrich middle school and high school teachers’ American history knowledge, while introducing teaching methods that will help them develop their own classroom applications. America’s History in the Making is composed of eleven units, each containing video and text materials, Web interactives, and hands-on activities built around primary and secondary source materials. The materials can be used as stand-alone units or as a full four-credit professional development course.
- Additional features include:
- Opportunities to develop assessments and assignments for students;
- Web based interactives that stimulate analytical thinking;
- Videos of expert interviews, reenactments, examples of historical methodology;
- A table that correlates to each state’s history/social studies standards.
Registration (NO FEE) is required to stream videos and download all workshop materials, including comprehensive facilitator guides. Certificates of Participation to those working in groups are available and may be used for inservice or recertification credit. Colorado State University offers graduate-level semester credits, for a fee, to those who complete the sequence of sessions and the required assignments.
Comments