This professional development opportunity will bring Texas teachers together with leading scholars to explore important constitutional issues in our nation's history. The program offers teachers the opportunity to work with leading scholars of U.S. history, political science, and law and share strategies for teaching with primary sources.
Over the past five years, pre-service through first-year teachers have enriched their teaching and content knowledge by completing this program. Its goal is to expose beginning and future teachers at the elementary, middle, and high school levels to strategies and programs which will help them be better civic educators. The institute content includes discussions and practical application of concepts dealing with local, Texas, and national government and the U.S. Constitution. In addition, each level has special programs designed for that grade level. All materials distributed are correlated with the TEKS standards and the TAKS test. Lessons also include gifted and talented/advanced placement extensions.
Offers 40 hours of in-service training credit. This institute is approved by the State Board for Educator Certification for professional development credit.
"These grants of up to $10,000 are made to Texas educational and cultural organizations to support the development of K-12 instructional materials focusing on Texas history."
Sponsoring Organization
Humanities Texas
Eligibility Requirements
K-12 Texas educational and cultural organizations may apply.
"The Linden Heck Howell Outstanding Teaching of Texas History Award was established in memory of Ms. Howell, former chair of the Humanities Texas Board of Directors, as a lasting tribute to her service to the organization and her commitment to the study of Texas history. The winning teacher receives a $5,000 cash award, with an additional $500 for his or her school for the purchase of instructional materials supporting Texas history."
Sponsoring Organization
Texas Humanities
Eligibility Requirements
Must be a Texas K-12 history teacher.
Application Deadline
Award Amount
$5,000 cash award, with an additional $500 for his or her school for the purchase of instructional materials supporting Texas history.
"The Outstanding Teaching of the Humanities Awards recognize exemplary K-12 humanities teachers. Each year, 11 teachers are selected to receive a $5,000 cash award and an additional $500 for their respective schools to use in purchasing humanities-based instructional materials."
Sponsoring Organization
Humanities Texas
Eligibility Requirements
Nominees must be full-time teachers in Texas public or private schools. Teachers of English and language arts, foreign languages, history, and social studies are eligible. Teachers of art, drama, and music are eligible if they emphasize the history, criticism, and theory of the arts.
Application Deadline
Award Amount
$5,000 cash award and an additional $500 for their respective schools to use in purchasing humanities-based instructional materials.
Designed for elementary social studies teachers who teach United States history and government, this intensive week-long workshop will immerse participants in early American history "on location" in Williamsburg, the restored capital city of 18th-century Virginia, and nearby Jamestown and Yorktown. 25 teachers and a returning mentor teacher will be selected for each session. Participants will be involved in an interdisciplinary approach to teaching social studies with colonial American history as the focus. Teachers will have the opportunity to exchange ideas with noted historians, meet character interpreters, and take part in reenactments of 18th-century events. They will review various interactive teaching techniques with a mentor teacher and with each other. Instructional materials in a variety of media will be provided to participants to use in their classrooms. Together with Colonial Williamsburg staff, teachers will prepare new instructional materials for use in their own classrooms.
"Oral histories offer a valuable way to preserve and document the memories of individuals. They are also useful for creating innovative educational materials. This workshop is for individuals who collect or want to collect oral history interviews for educational use. The 3-hour training will look at real world examples like videos, websites, classroom activities, books, and multimedia presentations. The session will examine important factors to consider in preparing oral histories so that effective educational materials can be created."
Each year the Arkansas Council for the Social Studies offers a small grant to underwrite teacher expenses for classroom and academic use. This grant is to be used to purchase materials or to underwrite activities which promote social studies education.
Sponsoring Organization
Arkansas Council for the Social Studies
Eligibility Requirements
Teacher members of ACSS are eligible to submit applications for projects relating to the goals of the organization.
Reenactor Marcia Estabrook plays half-white, half-black slave Ellen Craft. Estabrook tells Craft's story of her upbringing as a slave and her escape from slavery dressed as a white man, with her husband posing as a slave.