This workshop will go over 15 lesson plans covering the desert environment, Native American culture, Mexican culture, ranch life, World War II, and more. Supplementary literature books are included in the registration fee.
The theme of this meeting is "Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." Sessions will include "Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program," "Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom: Identities at the Crossroads," "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration," "Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies," "The Future of American and Ethnic Studies," "Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies," and "Getting Great Advising: A Workshop for Graduate Students."
Participants in this workshop will cover content and instructional-based themes introduced during the previous summer institute. Other teachers from the regions will be invited to attend this workshop and learn about content, resource, and instructional themes covered during the year. Core participants will also share their lesson plans, work products, and best practice strategies with the other teachers.
Participants in this workshop will cover content and instructional-based themes introduced during the previous summer institute. Other teachers from the regions will be invited to attend this workshop and learn about content, resource, and instructional themes covered during the year. Core participants will also share their lesson plans, work products, and best practice strategies with the other teachers.
This workshop will consist of three morning breakout sessions, an early afternoon plenary session by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh history professor Michelle Kuhl, and time for teachers to break into smaller groups to share and exchange ideas. The morning breakout sessions will include Menasha Middle School teacher Troy Wittmann facilitating discussions on additional history teaching strategies; Wisconsin Historical Society's Michael Edmonds discussing how "Turning Points" and other online historical collections can be used for history instruction; and a history content presentation (to be determined).
This conference's theme is "Historians and Educators: Building and Assessing Partnerships." The goal of the conference is to foster a conversation among historians and education faculty about teaching history to undergraduates. This second conference will extend that conversation to the teaching of history at all levels by including sessions on building historian and K12 educator collaboration, assessing existing partnerships, preparing students for careers outside the K—12 classroom, and options for creating a history educators' consortium for professional development.
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This conference will address topics including "Black Women in the Academy: Achievements and Challenges," "Ethnicity, Race, and Linguistic and Cultural Practices in Colonial Louisiana," "Landscapes of Early National Slavery: Space and Mobility in the Multiracial South," "Enforcing Racial/Gender Norms in the Civil War South," "Doctoring the Race: Black Physicians and Racial Politics in Professional Medicine," and more.