| Teaching
American History |
| Teaching American History
is a grant project of the federal Department of Education.
The grants fund three-year long professional development
programs for teachers of American history in elementary,
middle, and high schools designed to increase teacher's
content knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of
traditional American history. Two active TAH projects
and one recently completed, are run through the History
Teaching Institute. |
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Back
to History
- K through 12 school teachers |
| Back to History is
a professional development program for K-12 teachers
in Ohio's Educational Regional Service System (ERSS)
Region 10, including Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery,
and Preble counties. This program combines the resources
of The Ohio State University, the Ohio Historical Society,
and the Clark County Educational Service Center to
support and improve the teaching of traditional American
history. |
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History
WORKS II: Building Foundations
- elementary school teachers |
| History WORKS II: Building Foundations
is a partnership between the History Teaching Institute,
the Ohio Historical Society, and the Columbus Public
Schools. By involving over one hundred Columbus Public
elementary school teachers, this program will contribute
to a renewal of American history in the nation's 16th
largest school district and will lead to increased student
interest and achievement in American history. The program
has three major components: graduate-level training
through school-year seminars and a two-week summer institute,
a web-based resource center, and a lecture series. History
Works II is organized around two core themes: Changing
Faces and Places: Exploration, Immigration, and Frontiers;
and Taking a Stand: The Power of Constitutional History |
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History
in the Heartland |
| History in the Heartland brings together American
history teachers from over sixty Ohio school districts
in twelve Ohio counties surrounding the OSU regional
campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. The
program is a partnership between the Department of History,
the Ohio Historical Society, and Mid-Ohio Educational
Service Center. The three components of History in the
Heartland are monthly seminars, a summer institute,
and a web-based resource center. Activities are organized
around four core themes: Histories of the West: Native
American and Borderlands Histories; The Country and
the City: Nature and Neighborhood as Themes in American
Life; Of Campaigns and Conventions: American Political
History; and The Cold War: America's Long Race for Security
and Predominance. Seminars at local historic sites are
a highlight of the program. |
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Explore History |
| Explore History is a professional development program for K-12 teachers in the thirteen county area of central and north central Ohio served by Ohio State University's regional campuses in Lima, Marion, Mansfield, and Newark. This program combines the resources of the Ohio State University, the Ohio Historical Society, and the Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center to support and improve the teaching of traditional American history. |
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History
WORKS
- middle and high school teachers. |
| History Works was a three-year
professional development program for middle and high
school teachers of American history in the Columbus
Public Schools. The direct instructional portions of
the project have been completed, but the web-based resource
center continues to operate as a source for lesson plans
and classroom activities based on primary sources. The
classroom materials relate to the following themes:
Faces and Places: American History through Ohio Biography,
Turning Points: The Constitution and American Democratic
Institutions, The United States in the World: American
Foreign Relations, Migration and Immigration: The Peopling
of America, Common and Uncommon Cents: American Economic
History, and Differing Perspectives: Social Movements
and Social Change. |
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