Hi folks! We've spent the last week wrapping up the 2008-2009 History Day year and are eagerly making plans for the fall. We had a big planning meeting yesterday afternoon and began to outline our program strategy for the year. It's too early to share much, but I will say that we will have a whole new set of teacher and student workshops for the fall. Stay tuned for details!
If you followed my old blog, "That History Day Gal", you'll know that posting on a regular basis was not a strength of mine. Nonetheless, this new blog is opening up so many great ideas for content, and I have an idea I'd like to float past you now.
I am going to be attending the National History Day Summer Teacher Institute in Philadelphia in a few weeks. To say I'm excited is an understatement. In order to prepare, Ann Claunch (the curriculum director at NHD) sent each attendee six books to read.
I'd encountered one of the books before: Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past by Sam Wineburg. It's academic to be sure. (It's written by a Education and Psychology Professor, for goodness sakes!) But it is chock full of great ideas that can only help history and social studies teachers (and History Day coordinators like me) learn more about understanding and analyzing historical information.
Soooo, I was thinking: what if a bunch of us read it together? I plan on posting about each chapter as I read them, but I think it could be exciting to get your thoughts too. So, I am issuing an open invitation to any History Day teacher, student, or parent out there: If you are interested in reading it along with me and sharing your thoughts here on this blog, send me an email at: t.voigt@nysha.org. I will even send you a copy of the book FOR FREE!!!
So who's with me?????
Friday, June 26, 2009
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