Summer Institute on International Peace, Security, and Conflict Management

Description

Drawing upon practitioners, scholars, and educators, the Summer Institute will examine the sources of global conflict and different approaches to peacemaking and peacebuilding in the current global environment, which presents unique challenges and opportunities for teachers striving to ready young people to take their places in an increasingly complex world.

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Sponsoring Organization
United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
Target Audience
Secondary school teachers from a variety of disciplines.
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Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives for educators at the upper elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research the historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities. Each participant will search the holdings of the National Archives for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.

Contact name
Primarily Teaching Staff
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives and Records Administration
Target Audience
Advanced elementary, middle school, and high school teachers of history, social studies, and geography
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Duration
Five days
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Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives for educators at the upper elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research the historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities. Each participant will search the holdings of the National Archives for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.

Contact name
Primarily Teaching Staff
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives and Records Administration
Target Audience
Advanced elementary, middle school, and high school teachers of history, social studies, geography
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Duration
Five days
End Date

Primarily Teaching: Using Historial Documents in the Classroom

Description

Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives for educators at the upper elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research the historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities. Each participant will search the holdings of the National Archives for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to
help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.

Contact name
Jenny McMillen
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Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Archives and Records Administration
Target Audience
Later elementary, middle school and high school history, georaphy, and social studies teachers
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Contact Title
Primarily Teaching Staff
Duration
Five days
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Teacher Created Materials

Teaser

TCM is for-profit and produces materials for all academic subjects and all grade levels.

Description

<p>TCM is for-profit and produces materials for all academic subjects and all grade levels. Topic-specific kits consist of primary source documents, historical background information, transparencies, CD-ROMs, and teacher’s guides with worksheets, discussion questions, and activities. All periods in American History are covered. </p> <p>Series available are: Exploring History – simulations, primary sources, and historical background information with an emphasis on people throughout the ages; Primary Source Readers – lessons based on the National Council for the Social Studies and language arts standards include books written at two reading levels for differentiated instruction; Primary Sources – letters, speeches, photographs, and other primary sources; Social Studies Test Preparation – assessments that can be used both in correlation with the Primary Sources kit or as a stand-alone practice piece for answering multiple-choice, constructed-response, and document-based questions; Themed Classroom Readers – designed to help students develop word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills in accordance with the Reading First legislation, may be used to supplement the lessons in Primary Sources and Exploring History kits; and, Resource Books – reading and writing activities, leveled texts, and fluency activities.</p>

<p>Sample pages of titles are available in pdf form, though titles may be ordered through the TCM website.</p>

Publisher
Teacher Created Materials is a private publishing business based in Huntington Beach, California.

The DBQ Project

Teaser

The DBQ Project is for-profit and produces high school and middle school appropriate materials inspired by the document based question exercise in Advanced Placement History tests.

Description

<p>The DBQ Project is for-profit and produces high school and middle school appropriate materials inspired by the document based question exercise in Advanced Placement History tests.</p>

<p>Binders are available in long and short versions. Long version DBQs are typically 14-17 documents in length, while short version DBQs average 9-10 documents. Many of the short version textual documents have been edited to accommodate reading levels. All binders include documents, background essays, essay questions, and a Teacher’s Toolkit with materials to assist teachers in teaching the process of answering document based questions. A typical DBQ title requires 2-5 days of instruction.</p>

<p>American History titles available are: What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria in 1692? How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution? How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? The California Gold Rush: A Personal Journey. What Caused the Civil War? How Violent Was the Old West? Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero? What Caused the Great Depression? Martin Luther King and Malcolm X: Whose Philosophy Made the Most Sense for America in the 1960s? Why Was the Equal Rights Amendment Defeated?</p>

<p>Sample pages are available in pdf form. Titles cannot be ordered online, but an order form can be downloaded from the DBQ website.</p>

Publisher
The DBQ Project is a private publishing business based in Evanston, Illinois.

Primarily Teaching: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom

Description

This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the National Archives. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the National Archives, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in his or her own classroom.

Contact name
Paul Wormser
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
The National Archives Regional Facility, Laguna Niguel, CA
Target Audience
Upper elementary, secondary and college teachers
Start Date
Cost
$100
Course Credit
Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.
Contact Title
Primarily Teaching Staff
Duration
Eight days
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Westward Expansion: Beyond the Wagon Train

Description

"This workshop will introduce participants to the Native American cultures of the Ohio River Valley and the personalities that scouted, surveyed and established Ohio's first Euro-American settlement. Guest speakers will include Dr. James H. O'Donnell, Professor of History at Marietta College, and curators and archivists from the Ohio Historical Society and the Marietta College Archives."

Contact name
Blankenship, Jody
Sponsoring Organization
Buckeye Council for History Education
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Contact Title
Coordinator
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Educator Scholarship Program

Description

Provides scholarships for public and private school K-12 educators to take college courses.

Sponsoring Organization
Horace Mann
Eligibility Requirements

Must NOT be a resident of Hawaii, New Jersey, or New York | Must be a K-12 educator currently employed by a U.S. public or private school and planning to enter a two or four-year accredited college or university | Must have at least two or more years of teaching experience | "Must be employed by a U.S. public or private school at the time of application and at the time the scholarship is awarded? | Must not be an employee of Horace Mann

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Award Amount
Up to $5000