Opportunities for Teachers

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• 2009
• Opportunities for Teachers
• Summer Workshop Program

Smithtown Central Schools Teaching American
History Program
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• All programs are free.
• Includes food and prepaid lodging
• A transportation stipend will be provided
• to workshops that are not on Long Island.
• Graduate Credit and/or In-service Credit
• will be will paid by grant funds
• for many activities.
• Stipends are offered for many activities.

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• Available to Participants of
• Controversies in American History Workshop
• ( Pick One)
• Gilder Lehrman Seminars Dates throughout
  summer
• Colonial Williamsburg Workshop 715-722
• National Archives (Manhattan) Research Workshop
• 7/27-7/31
• Available to All Social Studies
• and Inclusion Teachers
• (Pick One or Two)
• Teddy Roosevelt's 150th Birthday Bash at
  Sagamiore Hill
• 8/3- 8/27
• Teaching Academic Controversies Stony Brook
  University/Wang Center
• 8/24 -8/28

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• Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History
• Summer Seminars
• Limited to six participants
• Room and board
• Books and teaching resources
• Stipends of 400
• 100 Transportation Stipend for Seminars outside
• the New York Metropolitan Area

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Colonial Williamsburg Workshop

• Limited to Twelve Participants
• Materials and instruction provided by
• staff of Colonial Williamsburg
• Lodging in restored Colonial Era Tavern
• Food in Colonial Williamsburg Restaurants
• 100.00 Transportation Stipend
• Graduate Credit may be available at extra cost.

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Colonial Williamsburg

• MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM
• The Middle/High School sessions investigate
  seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political
  ideas and events that led to the American
  Revolution and development of our United States
  Constitution. During the week, teachers will
• Identify and analyze significant events that led
  to independence and continue to shape and define
  our nation today.
• Investigate how British economic, political, and
  social institutions in Virginia were valued and
  adapted after the American Revolution.
• Explore the challenges facing our founding
  fathers as they developed the Constitution and
  the Bill of Rights.
• Examine and compare eighteenth-century and
  twenty-first-century rights and responsibilities
  of citizenship.
• Use primary sources and technology resources to
  learn about events leading to the American
  Revolution and their effects on the daily lives
  of individuals from various social levels.

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National Archives ManhattanPrimarily Teaching
Research Experience Workshop
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National Archives (Manhattan)Primarily Teaching
Workshop

• What will Primarily Teaching offer teachers?This
  workshop provides a varied program of lectures,
  demonstrations, analysis of documents,
  independent research, and group work that
  introduces teachers to the holdings and
  organization of the National Archives.
  Participants will learn how to do research in
  historical records, create classroom material
  from records, and present documents in ways that
  sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for
  history, social studies, and the humanities. Each
  participant selects and prepares to research a
  specific topic, searches the topic in the records
  of the National Archives, and develops a teaching
  unit that can be presented in his or her own
  classroom.
• Who should attend?Primarily Teaching
  demonstrates secondary strategies, but educators
  at all levels can easily adapt them to their
  particular needs.
• Graduate credit from a major university is
  available for an additional fee
• Two In service credit

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• Teddy Roosevelts 150th Birthday Bash
• at Sagamore Hill
• Activities
• Private Tour of Sagamore Hill
• Nature Walk Led by National Park Service
  Naturalist
• Coach Bus Trip to Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
  in Manhattan
• Document Research Using Sagamore Hill
• Archive Collection
• Small Group Discussion with Roosevelt Biographer
• Controversy Small Group Debate
• Does Roosevelt Really Belong on Mount Rushmore?
• Includes Lunch and Coach Bus Transportation to
  New York City
• Two In-service Credit

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Academic Controversy in the
Classroom Instructional Materials Written by
Drs. Roger and David Johnson Merit Pay For
Teachers? Renewable Tenure? Charter School
Competition With Public Schools? Three Credits
500. 00 Stipend Stony Brook University
Wang Center Lunch at J Club

• Refine Your Skills
• Have Fun Working With and
• Debating Your Colleagues

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Questions How many workshops can I
attend? Teachers who are participating in the
Academic Controversies Workshop can attend three
summer workshops is they wish. Teachers who are
not participating in the Academic Controversies
Workshop can attend two workshops if they
wish. Can I participate in next falls activities
even if I dont choose to participate this
summer? Yes Is it true what they say about
Dixie? Yes