The Western History Association and the Charles Redd Center are sponsoring four K-12 Teaching Awards to the Western History Association Annual Meeting. This year's meeting will be held in scenic Lake Tahoe, Nevada October 13th-16th, 2010.
The Award will include the following: Conference Registration, award banquet ticket, ticket to the opening reception, and $500 towards conference-related costs including: hotel, travel, conference tours, or Continuing Education Credits. Award winners might also be invited to attend the Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop for free, an additional $300 value.
The 8th-annual Teaching History With Technology Workshop is an intensive three-day hands-on opportunity for history and social studies educators to explore practical ways to use technology to enrich the history curriculum and engage students. The workshop explores innovative ideas, effective techniques, and ready-made plans for incorporating Web-based resources, desktop software packages and new and emerging technologies into classroom instruction of history. The workshop provides numerous examples of the best history-related web sites, describes practical methods and techniques for using technology in the history and social studies classroom, and includes opportunities for targeted web exploration after each "mini" lesson. Examples highlight both inquiry-based and research-oriented technology applications in World History, World Cultures, United States History, and Civics for middle school, high school, and college. The workshop emphasizes innovative ideas and exciting projects for incorporating Web 2.0 tools including wikis, blogs, podcasts, online social networks, and other emerging technologies into the classroom.
From the Foundation for Teaching Economics website:
"These widely acclaimed, cross-curricular programs help teachers incorporate economic reasoning into their high school American history courses. Program instructors provide economic explanations of pivotal historical events.
Participants learn interactive teaching strategies that incorporate the actual circumstances of historical periods of study. With EFIAH lesson plans, teachers can help their students learn by re-living history rather than just reading or hearing about it. A 'must take' course for any teacher of American history."
"This Presidential Academy will lead teachers in a careful study of three turning points in American history: The American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Our study will be framed by the three famous documents that memorialize these American epochs: the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the "I Have a Dream" speech. Participants will spend five days in Philadelphia, six days in Gettysburg, and six days in Washington, DC.
The professors conducting the Academy are among the finest scholars of American history and government from across the country. They include a Pulitzer Prize winning author and many recipients of teaching awards at their respective colleges and universities."
"Teachers may choose to receive four hours of Master's degree credit from Ashland University. This credit can be used toward the Master of American History and Government offered by Ashland University or may be transfered to another institution. The four credits are offered at a discounted cost of $880 ($220/semester credit hour)."
From the Foundation for Teaching Economics website:
"These widely acclaimed, cross-curricular programs help teachers incorporate economic reasoning into their high school American history courses. Program instructors provide economic explanations of pivotal historical events.
Participants learn interactive teaching strategies that incorporate the actual circumstances of historical periods of study. With EFIAH lesson plans, teachers can help their students learn by re-living history rather than just reading or hearing about it. A 'must take' course for any teacher of American history."
From July 2022 at the Oliver Kelley Farm in Elk River, participants will explore content related to 19th-century agricultural and farming history, technological innovations that impacted production and family, and subsistence vs. market economics. Teachers will also learn about and experience historic site interpretation at one of the Society's much-loved historic sites. In period-appropriate clothing, participants will job-shadow historic site employees and engage in historical interpretation themselves. Teachers will return to their classrooms with an instructional video documenting this experience.
For more information, contact the given email address. To register, fill out this form.
The McCormick Freedom Project presents its second First Amendment Summer Institute, a weeklong course focusing on the five freedoms—religion, speech, press, assembly and petition—with a specific focus on their application in school settings. Topics will include the free exercise of religion in a classroom, students' free speech rights when engaging in off-campus acts of expression, and a principal's rights in exercising prior review over student newspaper content.
Middle and high school educators will learn from experts in the field including Charles Haynes, senior scholar at the First Amendment Center and Barbara Jones, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Participants will also explore related lesson plans and tour the soon-to-launch Freedom Express mobile museum.
"Participants may enroll in the course to earn 3 college credits for a fee of $300. Otherwise, participants can instead earn 35 CPDUS/7 CEUs at no charge."
This six-day, interdisciplinary teachers' institute will explore African Americans' attempts to achieve full equality in Alabama and neighboring Southern states. Resident scholars will assist participants in determining, assessing, and articulating the continued importance of past human and civil rights successes in Alabama—and elsewhere in the South.
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum will be offering a summer course for teachers in July. Presenters will examine the 60th anniversary of the Korean War and discuss its legacy. Teachers will have the opportunity to hear scholars from around the nation and discuss the latest research on topics such as the Vietnam War, the Iran hostage crisis, the end of the Cold War, and present-day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Educators will also create lesson plans and teaching materials based on the presentations.
Speakers include Adrian Lewis, University of Kansas; representatives from nine presidential libraries; Paul Edwards from the Center for the Study of the Korean War; military historians; and currently serving military officers from Fort Leavenworth.
Teachers will have access to numerous primary sources from the Truman Archives during the week-long conference and will be encouraged to share their ideas during the conference.
From the Foundation for Teaching Economics website:
"These widely acclaimed, cross-curricular programs help teachers incorporate economic reasoning into their high school American history courses. Program instructors provide economic explanations of pivotal historical events.
Participants learn interactive teaching strategies that incorporate the actual circumstances of historical periods of study. With EFIAH lesson plans, teachers can help their students learn by re-living history rather than just reading or hearing about it. A 'must take' course for any teacher of American history."