Staff Development
Workshops
Enhance teacher knowledge of core content and
effective teaching strategies through custom-designed
workshops led by eminent
historians and master teachers. Teachers receive
relevant historical materials and instructional resources
in conjunction with workshops.
During each grant year, the Gilder Lehrman Institute
will partner with you to plan an intensive staff development
workshop tailored to fit your needs. Partner options
include:
- One- to five-day workshops with lectures from renowned
historians and pedagogical sessions led by a master
teacher, scheduled at a time and location to meet
your needs.
- History-on-Location workshops that include museum
visits and tours of historic sites to stimulate learning
and facilitate personal interpretation of historic
events.
- Half-day historian visits during the academic year
to provide short, supplementary workshops on focused
topics.
- Visits from master teachers to facilitate hands-on
pedagogical sessions.
Sample Staff Development Workshops:
The Expansion of American Democratic Ideals and Diversity
Five-Day History-on-Location Workshop in Baltimore,
MD
This workshop featured lectures and discussions by Yale
and University of Maryland professors on the origins
and institutionalization of slavery, emancipation and
Reconstruction, and the long Civil Rights movement (1880s-1920s),
as well as intensive pedagogical sessions led by master
teachers culminating in the creation of lesson plans.
Teachers gained additional content knowledge through
discussion with educators and visits to historic Annapolis
and Harper’s Ferry.
“This has been an amazing experience! The
content presented was helpful to better understand
areas of history where I am not really comfortable.
Excellent coordination between master teachers and
outside presenters.”
The Gilded Age
Three-Day History-on-Location Workshop in New York,
NY
This workshop featured lectures and intensive pedagogical
sessions with historians from Hobart and William Smith
Colleges, focusing on New York in the Gilded Age. Teachers
gained additional content knowledge and learned how
to integrate museums and tours into the classroom through
visits to Ellis Island, the Lower East Side Tenement
Museum, the Roosevelt Home and Museum, and the Merchant
House.
“This workshop was one of the best I have
ever been to. It had a perfect mix of new content
lecturing, question and answer, and pedagogy. This
workshop has given me the motivation to use more primary
sources and hands-on activities when teaching these
subjects. I highly recommend this and other workshops
to any educator. An amazing experience and opportunity!”
Key Topics in Early American History for Elementary
School Teachers
One-Day Staff Development Workshop
This workshop featured a Yale University historian lecturing
on-site with an intensive pedagogical session by a master
teacher focused on teaching American history at the
elementary level in schools facing unique socioeconomic
needs.
“I feel I gained knowledge of the subjects
and was encouraged by colleagues as they shared their
knowledge with me. There are many strategies I will
use in my classroom!”
School districts are responsible for any travel, accommodations,
and meals for district participants. The Gilder Lehrman
Institute provides travel, accommodations, and meals for
the historian and master teacher. 2010
Application Deadline:
The 2010 TAH competition has begun! Applications are
due to the DOE on March 22, 2010. Please
visit the DOE website for additional information and
to access the RFP:
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/applicant.html
For further information, please contact:
Victoria Lain, Education Coordinator
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
19 West 44th Street, Suite 500
New York, NY 10036
646-366-9666
Fax: 646-366-9669
lain@gilderlehrman.org
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