 2011 Summer Institutes for Ouachita, Morehouse, Richland and East Carroll Parishes and Monroe City Public School American History Teachers
Do you love to learn? Are you looking for new and engaging ways to teach American history? Do you need credit to meet the Continuing Learning Units? Participate in a Teaching American History Summer Institute and enrich your knowledge of the subject you teach, plus receive a $1,250 stipend, 3 graduate college credits in history, and classroom materials.
Through a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and the Ouachita, Morehouse, Richland, East Carroll, Monroe City Schools districts, will provide advanced study opportunities for public school American history teachers in northeastern Louisiana. These institutes are designed to assist teachers and their students in meeting state and national standards, including the Grade Level Expectations, Graduation Exit Examination and LEAP tests.
These are graduate-school level institutes in which participants will immerse themselves in intellectually challenging seminars and readings led by respected university history professors and nationally prominent guest scholars. Teachers will explore key documents, debates, philosophies and personalities that shaped American history, as well as the origins and evolution of American democracy, the Constitution, civic rights and responsibilities. The Institutes will make use of the most current resources (both text and electronic), as well as introduce participants to local cultural resources and archives. Teachers should leave the Institutes armed with renewed proficiency in American history, and with new strategies, materials and technology to help students better understand the central issues that shaped our nation and its people.
  
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