National Humanities Center Online Professional Development Seminars for History and Literature Teachers

Online Professional Development Seminars
for History and Literature Teachers

http://goo.gl/pmnKR

Fall 2011 Schedule

Tuesday,Oct. 4, 2011
Jefferson and Slavery
Mia Bay
Rutgers Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Oct. 6, 2011 The Factory v. the Plantation: Northern and Southern Economies on the Eve of the Civil War
Peter Coclanis
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Oct. 11, 2011 "Aliens" in the Empire: Diversity in the American Colonies
Kathleen DuVal
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Oct. 13, 2011 No Lords, Spiritual or Temporal: The First Great Awakening and the American Revolution
Timothy H. Breen
Northwestern Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Oct. 25, 2011 Big Houses and African Villages: The Plantation Melting Pot
Heather Williams
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Oct. 27, 2011 The Idea of American Exceptionalism: From the Puritans to President Obama
Andrew Delbanco
Columbia Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Nov. 1, 2011 The Scopes Trial and America's Multiple Modernities
Michael Lienesch
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow


Thursday,
Nov. 3, 2011 Predicaments of the New Republic: America, 1789-1820
Scott Casper
Univ. of Nevada;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Nov. 8, 2011 Prohibition

Michael A. Lerner
Bard High School Early College


Thursday,
Nov. 10, 2011 The Impact of the Cold War on American Society
Michael Kazin
Georgetown Univ.


Tuesday,
Nov. 17, 2011 The Power of Speaking: Rhetoric in American Public Life
James Engell
Harvard Univ.;
NHC Fellow


Tuesday,
Dec. 6, 2011 Making Sense of Battle: Journalism and Photography of the Civil War
Eliza Richards
UNC-CH;
NHC Fellow
Cost: $35.00 per seminar.

Email Caryn Koplik, Assistant Director of Education Programs, for special pricing.
A list of assigned readings will be made available prior to each seminar. Assigned texts will be provided free and online.

North Carolina Museum of History Check out what’s in store at the NC Museum at http://ncmuseumofhistory.org.

North Carolina Museum of History
Check out what’s in store at the NC Museum at http://ncmuseumofhistory.org.

National Humanities Center’s Fall Online Seminars

National Humanities Center’s Fall Online Seminars
Attached, please find the NHC’s fall online seminars for history and literature teachers. See the promotional code to request free registration for North Carolina teachers. If you have any questions, contact Caryn Koplik at ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org

North Carolina Council for the Social Studies (NCCSS) 42nd Annual Conference The conference will be held February 23-24, 2012

North Carolina Council for the Social Studies (NCCSS) 42nd Annual Conference
The conference will be held February 23-24, 2012 at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro. Visit the Council site: http://ncsocialstudies.org to register and submit a session proposal.

Common Core and NC Essential Standards Summer Institutes from DPI

Essential Standards Update:

Common Core and NC Essential Standards Summer Institutes

NCDPI just completed a very engaging series of leadership sessions across the State that focused on understanding the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics and the North Carolina Essential Standards that are set to be implemented beginning with the 2012-13 school year. We would like to thank those who participated in those sessions for your attentiveness, your discussions and your feedback. Together, we can effect positive change in social studies education in North Carolina. We look forward to the continued dialogue and training. Resources from the summer institutes will be posted to our website soon.

Twitter and Professional Learning Communities

If you use Twitter (or would like to start), then there is a lot of great discussion about Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that takes place on Twitter on a daily basis.

You can follow/search the hashtag #atplc to gather information as it is tweeted by educators all across the country about "all things professional learning communities."

Also, you may want to follow some of the people below who are considered experts in the PLC process:
SolutionTree Solution Tree
Helping educators build schools where everyone learns. #ProfDev, books, events, @authorspeak2011; free resources on PLCs, RTI, assessment, #edtech, & more.

plugusin Bill Ferriter
I'm a full time classroom teacher and the author of Building a PLC at Work (http://bit.ly/plcatwork)and Teaching the iGeneration (http://amzn.to/igeneration)

mikemattos65 Mike Mattos
Educator Consultant Author: Pyramid Response to Intervention (Coming Soon: Simplifying Response to Intervention)

Check who they are following for more possibilities.

Introduction to Professional Development Presentation

North Council on Economic Education Upcoming Professional Development

Virtual Economics 4.0. A digital library filled with thousands of quality economic, personal finance, and entrepreneurship lessons—easily browsed with a handy built-in search engine. Sessions are  August 15 in Cabarrus County, August 19^th in Edenton (financial literacy focus), and October 10^th in Wilson. Stipends are included for teachers from select counties! See attached flyer.

 

The Stock Market Game. While the SMG has long been known to be fun and educational, it has only recently been shown to boost 21^st-Century Skills and increase test scores in math, econ, and personal finance. This workshop will teach you how to get started, and if you’re a veteran, will show you how to implement the accompanying lessons so your students get a richer experience. SMG is offered at no cost to teachers for the first 800 middle school teams that sign up! August 18^th, Fidelity Investments Building, Cary, NC. See attached flyer.

 

Teaching Financial Literacy. TFL is a free 10-hour online course designed to get you ready for the essential standards revision. Produced in cooperation with NC DPI, TFL leads through the basics of teaching personal finance while familiarizing you with gobs of free lesson plans, readings, video games, videos, and interactive simulations. Part of the course involves implementing lessons from our extensive lesson plan bank in the classroom. TFL is in its second offering, and has gotten rave reviews from last spring’s participants. DPI will award 1 CEU (10 contact hours) upon completion of the course. TFL is self-paced. The deadline for finishing is September 18^th. Since the course is self-paced, you can register and begin any time before this. See the attached flyer.

 

For questions about these opportunities, contact Stephen Day, Programs Director for the North Carolina Council on Economic Education at 919.791.1995 or visit NCCEE on the web atwww.nccee.org