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Teachers Discovering History as Historians

The Summer 2003 Seminar has been scheduled for July 7 through July 18.
Please visit http://www.teachersdiscoveringhistoryashistorians.com for more information.

The Jamestown Public School District has been awarded a three year, United States Department of Education Grant to design, coordinate and implement a special program for teachers involved in the instruction of United States History. Teachers from all Chautauqua County school districts have been invited to participate. The primary goals for the project include:

• Providing teachers with deeper content knowledge and historical perspective and a wide
  range of teaching methodologies.
  

• Improve student achievement across all involved school districts, while engaging students in learning history as an interconnected series of ideas relevant to the past, present, and future.
  

  This grant will engage 100 teachers (grades 4,5,7,8,11,12) in a continuing professional development opportunity over three consecutive summers. Each summer, the Consortium will host teachers in a 7 to 12 day summer institute developed around one of three topics: (1) The Growth of Government and the Impact of Turning Points, (2) Struggles for Justice in the United States, and (3) United States Foreign Policy and International Relations. Teachers will develop common use lesson plans that will be published on the Consortium's website. Summer sessions will be followed by professional development in-service conferences in the fall and spring and optional symposia hosted by the Chautauqua Institution.
  

Paul Benson
Project Director

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