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Graduate Credit: HST 3604
PDPs/CEUs: HST 5904
Participants: Social Studies Teachers, grades 5–12
Dates/Times: July 7 - 11, 2008; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
This course is designed to provide teachers with in-depth understanding of Japan during WWII and the American occupation. These topics complement an American History or World History secondary curriculum and are essential to appreciating historical and contemporary Japan. This course will also introduce teaching strategies, primary and secondary sources and curricular materials related to Japan. In addition, there will be a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts to view the Japanese collection in order to provide a clear context for the course. Topics covered include Japanese daily life, hardships, atrocities and propaganda during World War II; the immediate and lingering effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and, American Foreign Policy and the U.S. occupation of Japan.
Instructor: Robert Collins has taught for over 20 years and is currently the chair of the Social Studies Department at Lexington High School where he also teaches a class on Contemporary Japan.
Graduate Credit: HST 3605
PDPs/CEUs: HST 5905
Participants: Social Studies Teachers, grades 5–12
Dates/Times: July 14 - 18, 2008; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
In this course participants will be exposed to some of the latest international research and best practices in the field of teaching history to diverse learners. This course emphasizes how history can and should be engaging to a range of students through the rigorous exploration of rich content and creative classroom exercises. Participants will be introduced to core concepts in the field of historical understanding, such as evidence, significance, agency, causation, and continuity and change. They will learn how these concepts can be infused into topics in World, American, and European history.
Three essential questions will guide our exploration of these core concepts:
- What does it mean to teach history well?
- How do we create a classroom where this can occur?
- How do we know our students understand what we teach?
To explore these questions we will read and discuss research from the field, demonstrate examples of what teaching for historical understanding looks like, and explore both traditional and newer forms for assessing this type of learning. Extensive use will be made of primary source documents, video clips, and online resources.
Instructor: Dr. Alan Stoskopf is the Academic Specialist for the Social Science and Humanities at Northeastern University's Institute in Education. In collaboration with a research team at the Harvard Graduate College of Education, he has developed a new, evaluation measure on how adolescent students understand and make meaning of history.
Forgotten Stories: Women in History
Graduate Credit: HST 3607
PDPs/CEUs: HST 5907
Participants: Social Studies Teachers, grades 6–12
Dates/Times: July 21 - 25, 2008; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
This course will explore multiple ways to bring women into the American history and world history classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge base about the experiences of women and the role of gender in history. We will examine various resources that are available to help us teach about women and gender in history: primary sources, biographies, literature, websites. These materials will allow participants to teach about more than the few famous women who have become part of the historical canon.
Participants also will have the opportunity to reconsider the ways we organize and conceptualize history. The traditional approach to history focuses on political leaders and wars, two arenas in which women have been largely excluded from throughout history, we have to questions what is important; we have to question how different pieces of history fit together. We will explore these questions in light of state standards and professional standards for history. Through this institute, participants will see how to bring women into the history classroom and at the same time meet the expectations required by standards.
Instructor: Shauna Harrington taught history and social studies at the secondary level for several years. She is now the Academic Specialist for Curriculum and Instruction in Northeastern University's School of Education.
