Teach India Summer Workshop, Maryland
Teach India Summer Workshop, Maryland
August 9-13, 2016
This week-long workshop examines the history and culture of India. The workshop includes presentations by historians and other scholars on specific themes in South Asia. Readings include novels, primary sources, and secondary texts relevant to teaching about India. Teacher leaders model standards-based lessons focused on historical thinking skills that support CCSS, and participants have time to develop their own lessons.
Location: Sri Siva Vishnu Temple, Greenbelt, MD
Fee: There is no fee to participate
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Teach India Summer Workshop
Teach India Summer Workshop
July 25-29, 2016
This week-long workshop examines the history and culture of India. The workshop includes presentations by historians and other scholars on specific themes in South Asia. Readings include novels, primary sources, and secondary texts relevant to teaching about India. Teacher leaders model standards-based lessons focused on historical thinking skills that support CCSS, and participants have time to develop their own lessons.
Location: CSU Long Beach
Fee: There is no fee to participate
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Alliance for Learning in World History
Alliance for Learning in World History
July 18-22, 2016
This is a week-long comprehensive workshop for the teaching of world history—conceptualization, student learning skills, pedagogy, content, and resources. Common Core is included through links of Institute curriculum to designated historical thinking skills. Modules of Institute curriculum have embedded lesson plans that can be implemented in the classroom. The Institute gives special attention to research in world history, and how teachers can integrate the new ideas in the field into the classroom with hands-on activities. For more information, please see the Alliance website.
Location: CSU Long Beach
Fee: $500
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Totalitarianism and the Holocaust: The Eugene & Eva Schlesinger Endowed Teacher Workshop on the Holocaust
Totalitarianism and the Holocaust: The Eugene & Eva Schlesinger Endowed Teacher Workshop on the Holocaust
July 11-15, 2016
This one-week workshop features talks by noted Holocaust historians, presentations by teacher leaders, talks by Holocaust survivors, and high-quality classroom resources focused on the history of the Holocaust. The institute provides teachers with information about the historical context and major events of the Holocaust, as well as more detailed examination of particular themes that change each year.
Location: CSU Long Beach
Fee: There is no fee to participate; participants receive a $300 stipend
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Cold War Home Front: An NEH Landmarks of American History & Culture Workshop
Cold War Home Front: An NEH Landmarks of American History & Culture Workshop
June 19-24, 2016 OR June 26-July 1, 2016
The Cold War Home Front in Southern California workshops explore the history and culture of aerospace production, a topic of immense importance for understanding the United States in the twentieth century. This workshop lecture-discussions by prominent historians, discussion of important readings in history, visits to key World War II and Cold War Sunbelt sites and regional museums, and exploration of outstanding digital primary source materials. For more information, please see the Cold War Home Front website.
Location: CSU Long Beach
Fee: There is no fee to participate; participants receive a $1200 stipend to defray costs of housing and transportation
The deadline to apply for this program has passed.
Propaganda & the Holocaust
Propaganda & the Holocaust
April 9, 2016, 9 am to 3 pm
This workshop is being held in conjunction with the US Holocaust Memorial’s traveling exhibition State of Deception at the LA Central Library. Highlights of the day include a talk on Propaganda and the Holocaust, a presentation from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Regional Education Corps on teaching the State of Deception exhibit, a free copy of the book State of Deception. Breakfast and lunch are provided.
Location: CSU Long Beach
Fee: There is no fee to participate
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Notable Past Programs
Library of Congress
2009–2010
Teaching with Primary Sources, Level I
2010–2011
Teaching with Primary Sources, Level I
2011–2012
Teaching with Primary Sources, Level I
Migration in World History: Teaching with Primary Sources, Level II
Teaching American History
2006–2009
Teaching American History–Lynwood Unified School District
2008–2011
With Success and Rigor for All–Lynwood Unified School District
World History
2009
Sites of Encounter: Travel Narratives in World History
2011
Silk Road for Educators Workshop–Bowers Museum
Sites of Encounter: Modernity and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Pacific
World History Institute–Long Beach Unified School District
2012
Sacred Gold: Pre-Hispanic Art of Columbia–Bowers Museum
World History for Us All Teacher Workshop
Empires in World History Teacher Institute
Holocaust Education
2009
Teacher Workshop on the Holocaust: The Holocaust and Children
2010
Belfer First Step: Holocaust Institute for Teacher Educators–US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Teacher Workshop on the Holocaust: Art as Propaganda, Art as Resistance
2011
The Eugene and Eva Schlesinger Workshop on the Holocaust: Responses to the Holocaust: Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders and Deniers
Yadunandun Center for India Studies
2009–2010
India Book Club
Solanki Lecture: Mira Kamdar, “Planet India: America’s Stake in India’s Future”
2010-2011
India Book Club
Solanki Lecture: Ramachandra Guha, “The Rise and Fall of the Indian Liberal Tradition”
2011-2012
India Book Club
Uka and Nalini Solanki Foundation Lecture featuring William Dalrymple
Teacher Conferences
2009-2010
Fall Conference, CSU Dominguez Hills
Spring Showcase Conference–CSU Dominguez Hills
2010-2011
Fall Conference, CSU Dominguez Hills
Spring Showcase Conference–CSU Dominguez Hills
2011-2012
Fall Conference, CSU Dominguez Hills
Spring Showcase Conference–CSU Dominguez Hills
Speaker Series
2009-10
Asia and the World: The Rise of India and China
The Environment: A Scholar Series
2010-11
Food For Thought: Global History through Food
2010-11
Southern California Modern:A Scholar Series on Living in the Golden State in the Mid-Twentieth Century
2012
Making Sense of the Civil War–Long Beach Public Library, National Endowment for the Humanities