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2006-07 Teaching American History: Impact America Workshop Schedule
July 31-August 4, 2006
Middle and High School
- Day 1 – Overview of year. Teachers share summer study
experiences and research; roundtable discussions of books in small
groups using discussion guides.
Breakfast and lunch provided.
- Day 2 – Analysis of student work samples; unit organizers;
curriculum planning; using Blackboard. Breakfast and lunch on your
own.
- Day 3 – Analysis of student work samples; unit organizers;
curriculum planning.
Breakfast and lunch on your own.
- Day 4 – Tom Heuertz, Education Director, Truman Library and
Museum; curriculum planning
Breakfast and lunch provided.
- Day 5 – Curriculum planning; MALS group meets Breakfast and
lunch provided.
September 28, 2006
Dr. Sam Wineburg, author of Historical Thinking and Other
Unnatural Acts: Teaching Students to Think Like Historians, and
contributing author to the new high school textbook.
October 25, 2006
Dr. John Sacher-- The Civil War Started: The National Impact of
Events in Territorial Kansas Here (MS) Kansas: At the
Forefront of Political and Social Issues (HS)
Dr. Aaron Willis – Reading for Understanding: Comprehension
Strategies for Young Historians (MS and HS)
October 26, 2006
Dr. Jack Zevin and Dr. David Gerwin, authors of Teaching US
History as Mystery. (MS and HS)
November 13, 2006
Dr. Elliot West, Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far
Western Front; Growing Up in the 20th Century. (MS and HS)
February 22-24, 2007
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents Dr. Carol
Berkin, noted historian, author (A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the
American Constitution; Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for
Independence; Making America: A History of the United States), and
narrator for History Channel presentation of The Founding Fathers will
speak on Freedom. (MS and HS)
May 3, 2007
TAH Showcase
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