Teaching About Global Child Labor and Human Trafficking Conference

Description

The conference, which is geared towards secondary Social Studies, English and Spanish teachers, offers educators the opportunity to meet and interview former child laborers and trafficking victims, and attend a film festival and lectures by top scholars and human rights activists working in the field. The conference will provide the first forum in the United States for intensive training in the internationally acclaimed, interdisciplinary SCREAM—Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and Media— program, developed by the International Labour Organization, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO/IPEC). SCREAM offers cutting edge pedagogy, ideal for adapting and differentiating instruction to accommodate students' different learning needs and styles.

The highlight of the program will be the forum where former child laborers from South America and victims of trafficking within the US will share their stories. These stories will be videotaped for classroom use and conference participants will develop teaching ideas to accompany these narratives which will be published for use in the schools.

12.5 Professional Development Hours (1.25 CEUs) available.

Sponsoring Organization
Drew University, International Center on Child Labor and Education
Contact email
Location
Madison, NJ
Contact name
Swerlow, Linda
Phone number
1 973-408-3046
Start Date
End Date

Technology and Transportation: Shaping the City

Description

This workshop "will focus on changing transportation and technology in urban America and how these forces shape modern cities and their economies. Guest speakers will include Mark Tebeau, Associate Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and a variety of curators and archivists from the Ohio Historical Society."

Contact name
Blankenship, Jody
Sponsoring Organization
Buckeye Council for History Education
Start Date
Contact Title
Coordinator
End Date

Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship

Description

This institute will "examine the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill. The Institute encompasses lectures, discussions, and participants' personal responses to readings and films; projects using primary documents from the Churchill Archives Centre; and visits to Churchill sites in Britain. "

Contact name
Muller, James W.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 888-972-1874
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None ($3,000 stipend)
Course Credit
Participants will receive a certificate indicating participation.
Duration
Three weeks
End Date

The Civil Rights Movement

Description

"This seminar explores how an economically and politically powerless racial minority wrested dramatic change from a determined and entrenched white majority in the American South. It will examine the changing nature of protest from the 1940s to the 1950s; the roles of Martin Luther King, Jr., local movements, and women; and the relative importance of violence and non-violence. Participants will discuss how they can use the experiences of schoolchildren, teachers, and students in the crises of the 1950s and 1960s to bring home the realities of the civil rights movement in the classroom. Topics include the Little Rock 9 and their teachers in 1957, students and sit-ins, and the use of schoolchildren in the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
1 646-366-9666
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Cost
None ($400 stipend)
Course Credit
"Participants who complete the seminar in a satisfactory manner will receive a certificate. Teachers may use this certificate to receive in-service credit, subject to the policy of their district. No university credit is offered for the course."
Duration
One week
End Date

Winston Churchill and the Anglo-American Relationship

Description

This institute will "examine the Anglo-American relationship through the life, reflections, and experiences of Winston Churchill. The Institute encompasses lectures, discussions, and participants' personal responses to readings and films; projects using primary documents from the Churchill Archives Centre; and visits to Churchill sites in Britain. "

Contact name
Muller, James W.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities
Phone number
1 888-972-1874
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
None ($3,000 stipend)
Course Credit
Participants will receive a certificate indicating participation.
Duration
Three weeks
End Date

The Civil Rights Movement

Description

"This seminar explores how an economically and politically powerless racial minority wrested dramatic change from a determined and entrenched white majority in the American South. It will examine the changing nature of protest from the 1940s to the 1950s; the roles of Martin Luther King, Jr., local movements, and women; and the relative importance of violence and non-violence. Participants will discuss how they can use the experiences of schoolchildren, teachers, and students in the crises of the 1950s and 1960s to bring home the realities of the civil rights movement in the classroom. Topics include the Little Rock 9 and their teachers in 1957, students and sit-ins, and the use of schoolchildren in the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
1 646-366-9666
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Cost
None ($400 stipend)
Course Credit
"Participants who complete the seminar in a satisfactory manner will receive a certificate. Teachers may use this certificate to receive in-service credit, subject to the policy of their district. No university credit is offered for the course."
Duration
One week
End Date

History Colloquium: "First Amendment and Religious Liberty, Free Speech, and Free Press: 1791-Present"

Description

"An NCHE team of Charles Errico, Ted Green, and Lucinda Evans will explore the topic of the First Amendment and Religious Liberty, Free Speech, and Free Press: 1791-Present at this colloquium."

Sponsoring Organization
National Council for History Education
Phone number
1 440-835-1776
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
Not listed
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Five days
End Date

History Colloquium: "The Cold War in Historical Perspective"

Description

"An NCHE team of Marc Selverstone and John Pyne will explore the topic of The Cold War in Historical Perspective at this Teaching American History colloquium."

Sponsoring Organization
National Council for History Education
Phone number
1 440-835-1776
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
Not listed
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Five days
End Date

History Colloquium: "Postwar America: Civil Rights, the Sixties, and the Rise of Conservation"

Description

"An NCHE team of Yohuru Williams, Tom Connors, and David Byrd will explore the topic of Postwar America: Civil Rights, the Sixties, and the Rise of Conservation at this Continuity and Change: America in the 20th Century colloquium."

Sponsoring Organization
National Council for History Education
Phone number
1 440-835-1776
Target Audience
Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade
Start Date
Cost
Not listed
Course Credit
Not listed
Duration
Five days
End Date