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How can historians, curators, and the organizations they represent best meet the needs of teachers? By listening to and sharing with everyone involved in professional development. [...] »
Libraries and museums can bring teachers into direct contact with the stuff of history. [...] »
Is your history curriculum based on abstract concepts? Learn how the Northern Nevada TAH Project team streamlined lesson plans with essential questions (EQs). [...] »
Stan Pesick and Carolyn Halpin-Healy define lesson study, a professional development model where teachers collaboratively create lessons and critique them in action. [...] »
Teaching American History project staff outline the ongoing process of creating and managing effective lesson-study-focused grants. [...] »
In their TAH grant project, professors John Bieter and Kathleen Budge encouraged 5th, 9th, and 11th-grade teachers to adopt the thinking habits of historians and approach history as problem-solvers. [...] »
Christina Chavarria of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum describes the many resources the museum can offer TAH Grant projects. [...] »
Has your school received the NEH's Picturing America materials? Brian Carlin and Philip Panaritis of New York describe how they incorporated Picturing American into TAH grant projects. [...] »
Speaking from years of experience, Gerri Hayes talks about planning TAH-grant-supported professional development courses for high school educators. [...] »
Guide educators step-by-step through lesson creation with intensive lesson study. Matt Karlsen discusses the implementing of a lesson study grant project. [...] »
