History Teacher of the Year Award

Description

From the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History website:

"The History Teacher of the Year Award, established by Preserve America, recognizes outstanding American history teachers and the crucial importance of American history education. Winners are selected from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Department of Defense schools, and U.S. Territories. These winners become finalists for the National History Teacher of the Year Award. Each state winner receives $1,000 and an archive of books and educational resources for his or her school's library."

Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; Preserve America
Eligibility Requirements

"Any full-time middle or high school teacher of grades seven through twelve who teaches American history (including local and state history)."

Application Deadline
Award Amount
$1,000 for state winners; $10,000 for national winner

Montgomery County Public Schools Street Law Teacher Training Institute

Description

From the Street Law website:

"This training is for high school teachers in Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools seeking to improve their teaching of law. Participants will meet area lawyers and receive interactive lesson plans and materials developed by Street Law, Inc. to help students learn about the judiciary, rights and responsibilities, historic landmark cases of the Supreme Court, and practical law."

Contact name
Ashlee Joyce
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Street Law
Phone number
240-821-1318
Target Audience
"High school teachers in Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools"
Start Date
Cost
Free
End Date

SCUSD History/CA Reading and Lit Summer Institute

Description

From the California History-Social Science Project website:

"This is offered by the California Reading and Literature Project and the History Project and will focus on:
+Reexamining how to activate and develop background knowledge and vocabulary
+Integrating differentiation into what you already do
+Writing to Learn or Process Thinking strategies
+Utilizing the Process of Historical Investigation to design lessons and examine primary sources
+Building professional learning communities in your departments.

Each day will offer:
+Presentation of new strategies
+Teacher planning time and/or department collaboration time
+Lecture and Discussion facilitated by college professors"

Contact name
Durham, Katie
Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
California History-Social Science Project
Phone number
916-228-5844
Target Audience
9-12
Start Date
Duration
Five days
End Date

Advanced Placement Summer Workshop: United States History

Description

This workshop is designed to prepare high school United States history teachers to teach this course in their high schools, to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history, and to develop the skills necessary for arriving at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and the skills for presenting reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. The teachers will also be introduced to the latest College Board changes to the test and scoring strategies.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
American Institute for History Education
Phone number
856-241-1990
Target Audience
High school
Start Date
Cost
$1,295 for resident; $895 for commuter
Course Credit
All teachers will receive a certificate for 30 hours of College Board approved instruction. In addition, all New Jersey teachers will receive 30 professional development hours from the American Institute for History Education as a state-approved vendor.
Duration
Six days
End Date

Advanced Placement Annual Conference

Description

The AP Annual Conference is the largest gathering of the Advanced Placement Program and Pre-AP communities, AP teachers and coordinators, middle school teachers, and administrators and counselors from across the United States and throughout the world.

Sponsoring Organization
College Board
Contact email
Location
San Antonio, TX
Start Date
End Date

Great Lakes Regional Conference

Description

From the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies website:

"Built around the theme of 'Today's Students, Tomorrow's Globel Citizen,' the conference offers stimulating sessions, thought-provoking keynote speakers, and two full days that focus on teaching social studies and international/global education."

Sponsoring Organization
Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
Middleton, WI
Contact name
Jenny Morgan
Phone number
6087328237
Start Date
End Date

Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History

Description

Designed especially for secondary school teachers of U.S. history, law, and civics/government, the institute will deepen participants' knowledge of the federal judiciary and of the role the federal courts have played in key public controversies that have defined constitutional and other legal rights. Participants will work closely throughout the institute with leading historians, federal judges, and curriculum consultants. Confirmed faculty include Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Harvard Law School and Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington University.

To explore the theme of "Seeking Social Change Through the Courts," the institute will focus on these three landmark federal trials: Woman suffrage and the trial of Susan B. Anthony, Chinese Exclusions Acts and Chew Heong v. United States, and the desegregation of New Orleans schools and Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board.

Contact name
Kaplan, Howard
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
American Bar Association Division for Public Education; Federal Judicial Center
Phone number
312-988-5738
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Six days
End Date

United States and China Relations

Description

The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These week-long seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date

The Urban Experience

Description

The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These week-long seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date

North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective

Description

The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in December 1865 abolished slavery in the United States, formally, officially, and legally. A century and a half after Emancipation, however, the question of slavery still roils the waters of American life. This seminar, led by Ira Berlin, will view the development of chattel bondage in mainland North America from the perspective of the larger Atlantic world. Topics include the nature of the slave trade, the distinction between societies with slaves and slave societies, the evolution of plantation slavery, the transforming face of the Age of Revolutions, the remaking of slavery in the 19th century, and the contemporary debate about the meaning of slavery for American life.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
One week
End Date