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Each summer since 1985, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has provided thousands of Louisiana’s elementary, middle and high school teachers an opportunity to participate in FREE seminars that challenge teachers to discuss and think critically and intensively about history, literature and other traditional and developing disciplines in the humanities. These Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study have a mandate to enhance content-based humanities education in the state’s classrooms.
“These seminars are great for teachers in respect to content, time, effort, and, of course, money. It amazes me that someone will pay me to read! This is my first experience but not my last.”
— Teacher participant, Ruston
"I believe they are the best professional development opportunities available anywhere at this time. I look forward to attending one next summer."
— Teacher participant, Bossier City
“These programs, without a doubt, will empower teachers, and the end result will be students receiving quality instruction.” — Teacher participant, New Orleans
View the 2008 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study brochure |
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| 2008 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study |
| The LEH is pleased to announce its 2008 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. All humanities teachers, librarians, principals, and assistant principals are invited to participate in LEH’s 2007 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. Three hours of graduate credit and/or 45 Continuing Learning Units (CLUs) + a modest stipend are available for those satisfactorily completing the course. To learn more about a particular institute, please contact the instructor directly. To learn more about the LEH’s teacher institute program, please contact Gary Talarchek, Associate Director, at 1.800.909.7990 x123 or talarchek@leh.org |
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| NEW ORLEANS |
Looking at History: Photography and the American Past
Loyola University New Orleans
July 7 – 31, 2008
Dr. Leslie Parr
(504) 865-3649
email: parr@loyno.edu
This Institute will look at American History from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the eyes of its photographers. Since photography’s beginnings in 1839, photographers have served as chroniclers and cultural interpreters of the American experience. Institute participants will learn to read photographs based on an understanding rooted in history and explore the role photographers have played in informing, defining, and changing society. By analyzing photographs in their historical context and evaluating them with the same care we give to all important documents, we can gain new insights into our collective past. This institute takes you from the Civil War through the Iraq War, contemporary terrorism, slums, child labor, the Great Depression, spectacular American landscapes and urban scenes. Participants will incorporate the knowledge gained in the institute in their own lesson plans, using Power Point as an instructional tool.
African-American Louisiana Writers: A Critical Introduction
Tulane University
June 2 – July 2, 2008
Dr. Nghana Lewis
(504) 957-2684
email: nlewis2@tulane.edu
Taken as a group, African American Louisiana writers present an imposing array of talent. However, their accomplishments remain largely unrecognized, and their resourcefulness in understanding key aspects of American history remains largely untapped. One of the goals of this institute is, thus, to open the work of African American Louisiana writers to critical investigation, to assess the insight these writers offer into the complex history, economy, and ecology of Louisiana as well as the awareness each brings to the vast cultural milieus that give Louisiana and America their distinctive flavors. A second goal is to provide teacher-participants with the knowledge and resources needed to correlate issues of style and theme that run through the work of African American Louisiana writers with issues of style and theme that populate mainstream American literature. The institute aims, also, to generate lesson plans that teacher-participants can immediately begin using in their classrooms.
Prime Time for PRIME TIME in New Orleans
(Open to Orleans Parish public school teachers)
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and University of New Orleans
July 7 – 31, 2008
Dr. Olivia Pass and Dr. Nancy Dixon
985-414-0381
email: pass@leh.org
Participants in the Prime Time institute will enhance their ability to teach reading and critical thinking skills in grades K-8. They will explore humanities issues via award-winning children’s and young adults’ books. The PRIME TIME methodology, which is based on the Socratic dialogue, will be used throughout this institute. The content area of the institute corresponds with the benchmarks and standards of both language arts and character education established by the Louisiana Department of Education. Participants will closely analyze the elements of fiction in each story and learn how to use the texts as prompts to get students to talk and write about the humanities. Often the characters in the books selected are presented with moral dilemmas and must seek some satisfactory resolution. Other characters find themselves in situations that require their ingenuity and courage. These stories will be used to enable the teachers in the institute to help students explore their own identities and self-esteem. At the end of the institute participants will have experience with specific books, and they will be able to apply the PRIME TIME paradigm to other texts that they can use with their students. |
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Searching for Our Mothers’ Gardens: African-American Women in Literature
Southeastern Louisiana University
June 9 – July 3, 2008
Dr. Ruth Caillouet
(985) 549-2100 or (985) 549-5328
email: ruth.caillouet@selu.edu
This Institute is designed for teachers of grades six through twelve who want to enliven their classrooms with new approaches to literature and writing that will capture the minds of today’s young adults. Alice Walker’s landmark essay, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” presents African-American women as the ancestors of creative spirit and courage who inspire strength and energy in the art of writing. The Institute will explore the experiences and portrayal of these women in literature written by women and men from slave narratives to modern fiction and from classic works to young adult novels. Crucial historical and social movements in African- American history are critical in this study of literature. Participants will read a variety of viewpoints in order to gain perspective on critical events in American history, including topics such as slavery, servant relationships, the Civil Rights Movement and contemporary issues such as gang violence. In this hands-on workshop, participants will read and analyze this wide range of literature and design lessons and units for middle and high school classrooms.
Picturing America/We the People: American Art History in the K-12 Classroom
Southeastern Louisiana University
June 2 – 26, 2008
Dr. Kim Finley-Stansbury
(985) 549-2193 or (985) 549-2141
email: finlstansbury@selu.edu
This Institute will present American art history through the use of the National Endowment for the Humanities instructional resources, Picturing American/We the People. American cultural and historical content based upon the forty visual arts reproductions of Picturing America will be the focus of the institute. The Institute is designed around the 125-page teacher’s resource guide (provided by the NEH) and the 2004 American Art History textbook by David Bjelajac entitled American Art: A Cultural History. Supplemental readings will be from various journals and web resources, highlighting art history as a means of making meaning out to contemporary American life. Participants will design lesson plans implementing learned content into the K-12 classroom based on Louisiana’s Grade Level Expectations, as well as the Picturing America website. |
| MONROE |
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
University of Louisiana at Monroe
June 2 – 26, 2008
Dr. Christopher A. Blackburn
318-342-1550
email: Blackburn@ulm.edu
This Institute will address the background, events and consequences of the extermination of European Jews during World War II. Students will be introduced to traditions of European racism and anti-Semitism, as well as the cultural, political, diplomatic and social conditions in Germany and elsewhere that helped to make the Holocaust possible. The course will then turn to a study of the rise of National Socialism, its vision for a new Europe, and the role of anti-Semitism in Nazi ideology and practice, culminating in an analysis of both the politics and the machinery of genocide. Finally, the institute will address issues of resistance, aid to the victims and, ultimately, the ways in which our culture and others remember, commemorate, or even forget the Holocaust. Through lectures, readings and films a variety of materials will be presented to provide materials for use in the classroom. Each participant will emerge from the class with multimedia presentations and lecture notes sufficient to provide a foundation for bringing a serious study of the Holocaust and its related events into their classrooms.
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| University Professors |
University Professors are invited to submit proposals for LEH Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study annually on October 1.
For more information: Walker Lasiter: lasiter@leh.org; 504-620-2630 |
| Elementary and Secondary Teachers |
Elementary and Secondary Teachers statewide are invited to join the ranks of more than 3,400 fellow educators teaching over 500,000 students who have participated in these free summer seminars. The 2008 institutes are funded by the LEH and supported by the State of Louisiana.
Term: Four weeks ranging from 12-15 classroom hours per week.
Tuition and Credit: Tuition waivers are often available. Host institutions generally offer three credit hours. Participants satisfactorily completing the course will receive 45 Continuing Learning Units.
Stipends: Individual stipends of up to $750 are available.
Enrollment: Limited to 20 teachers per institute.
Registration: Project directors at each university handle the registration for their institute. For additional information, contact the instructor directly.
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| Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study in the Humanities |
Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study in the Humanities have intellectually enriched teachers since 1985. First presented as a part of the regular LEH grant program, the institutes later gained support from the State of Louisiana, Freeport-McMoran, Inc., the BellSouth Foundation, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), the Board of Regents through the Louisiana Educational Quality Support Fund (LEQSF), McDermott, Entergy, and the Patrick Taylor Foundation.
Click here to view the Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study held in Louisiana (PDF)
Click here to view the Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study held in Louisiana (Excel) |
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