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Cities in Motion: History in Action |
| Workshop + Curriculum & Instruction + High School |
| "History is so boring. It's all about dead people who don't have anything to do with me," students complain. Sometimes they are right. Too many teachers present history as a collection of remote events and unrelated facts. Participants in this workshop will examine a model for interdisciplinary study and student-centered learning in use at School One, an independent school in Providence, RI. We will cite, as an example, a class that challenges students to develop their research and presentation skills by conducting their own studies of immigration, labor movements and urban planning while investigating the city (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) as a site of change. Students collect and analyze primary and secondary sources, and they learn to assess the vestiges of material culture; they become historians by learning to ask and to answer their own essential questions about urban development. Participants in this workshop will work with artifacts themselves and will identify strategies for coaching students in the use of varied research methodologies. |
| Presenters: Erin Egan, Amy Beth Hessler, Katherine Wood |
| Date: Friday 4:00pm - 6:00pm Room: Conv Ctr 553B Event #177 |
Indicating interest in attending this session:
| Lisa Brooke Crocker | Santana High School |
| Nick Ferguson | Bethlehem Central High School |
| Nathaniel Fisher | Kestrel Heights School |
| Joy Garratt | New Eden Academy Interational |
| Bianca Gray | Central High School |
| Sara Pawloski | School One |
| James Pecora | Satellite Academy High School- Midtown |
| Allison Poirot | |
| Shoshana Rosenbaum | Kestrel Heights Middle School |
| Peter Small Jr. | SOuth Portland High School |
| Michael Sory | Castle View High School, Castle Rock, CO |
| Patricia Stecklein | Union Hill High School |
| George Tennison | E. A. Olle Middle School |
| Beverly Vileno | School One |
| Beth Walsh-Sahutske | Grosse Pointe North High School |
| Eric Westendorf | Exploris |