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Themes:
Each
annual program will focus on themes of liberty, equality and justice
showing how, at various times, these values were tested yet
endured.
2004 - 18th Century: U.S.
Constitution--From Colonies to a Nation
2005 - 19th Century:
Immigration and Industrialization
2006 - 20th Century: Global
Century America and the World: United States as a
World Power
Elements of the Project:
- Summer Seminars - This program seeks to provide a wide context for
teacher-participants to understand American history. In these summer
seminars, we have structured teaching professionals, master teachers,
and public historians to focus on specific issues.
More about the
Summer Seminars
- Workshops and Professional
Support - Teacher-participants will meet twice per semester with
their peers, discussing historical content and teaching
strategies. Pre-service teachers may also attend these
workshops. Teacher-participants will also have the opportunity to
work with a Master Teacher and Teacher Support Teams. More about Workshops
and Professional Support
Teacher-participants are required to produce a lesson plan, Power Point
Project, or other work which will allow them to share what they have
gained from this program with other teachers at their school and in
their school district. Hopefully, they will share this knowledge on an
even wider scale, at the state or national level.
- Tools for Success -
Besides being
the site for the summer seminars and workshops, Castleton State College
will provide history resources and offer professional support for
teacher-participants. The Calvin Coolidge Library will upgrade both its
primary source document collections and its professional education
resource materials as a support for the
teacher-participants. (List of books
obtained through this program)
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Outreach Programs - The program
seeks to create an on going network of teachers, and those interested in
the improvement of teaching history in southwest Vermont, by offering
information resources and encouraging on going contact between teaching
professionals and public historians in museums and historical societies
of the region. Examples
include:
- Teacher Support Teams composed
of two American historians from the History Department and a professor
from the Education Department of Castleton State College to act as
mentors for teacher-participants and pre-service history majors. At
least four times each school year these teams will visit participant
schools to offer additional resources to the program's
teacher-participants and assist with content, lesson planning and
teaching strategies.
- The Teaching American
History Website - devoted to the content and teaching of American
history throughout the three counties - to serve as an ongoing
conduit for resources. Through
the use of this Website the teacher-participants will enhance the
sharing of effective teaching strategies, content of American history,
and their project.
- Resource Material - A
recommended collection of American history primary and secondary
resources and teaching materials available for teachers of all levels
in the southwest area of Vermont. The Castleton College Library
will serve as a central location for teachers in three counties of
Vermont to access up to date materials.
- An Advisory Board -
meeting six times each year to review program evaluations, share ideas
and resources and explore ways to meet the needs of teachers and
students in the region.
Additional Benefits to Participants
- Teaching strategies to help
them become more effective.
- A personal teaching packet which contains
reference books, the Vermont Standards, national standards and other
professional material to be shared with fellow teachers.
- Release time to observe a master-teacher
at the teacher-participant's respective teaching level.
- A stipend for participation in
the project.
- Paid
membership in historical organization.
- 3 graduate credits from Castleton State
College upon completion of the year-long commitment beginning with the
summer seminar
2004 Syllabus
2005 Syllabus
2006 Syllabus
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