Teaching American History
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Partnered with the James Madison Program at Princeton, the American Institute for History Education, and the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Southern Oregon ESD has successfully obtained a $984,000 federal grant to provide professional development for forty-five 4th through 12th grade teachers in our three-county service area.
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-SOESD12/23/2008 |
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Grantee Profile: Trenton Public Schools
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Trenton Public Schools is the recipient of FY 2005 and FY 2008
TAH grants entitled the Woodrow Wilson Liberty Fellowship
and the Walt Whitman Historical Literacy Fellowship, respectively.
These projects represent a partnership among the Trenton,
Plainfield, and Edison public school districts in central
New Jersey. This consortium of three urban districts is
characterized by high minority populations and a poverty
rate of 65%.
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-TAH Info, Issue 3, US DOE12/23/2008 |
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Discovery Charter School Builds Boats
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With an array of boat parts and no assembly instructions, the Discovery Charter School students faced a challenge.
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-NJN Public Television12/05/2008 |
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Click To Play
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Digital video and online content are as common in the classroom today as staplers and pencils. The advantages of teaching with the visual, rather than straight from the textbook, are many...
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-NJEA Review10/28/2008 |
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Spice Things Up With Multimedia
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Incorporating Web-based and interactive media into your lesson plan can be one of the best things you do for engaging your students. Particularly when it comes to teaching history, short video clips, judiciously used to supplement lecture, can provide meaningful impact. But how do you define "judiciously"?
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-Virginia Journal of Education10/21/2008 |
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Who teaches the teachers?
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Sometimes even teachers need to be taught. The American Institute for History Education (AIHE) is helping school districts across the United States ensure that their history and social studies teachers are on top of their game, and equipped with the right tools to help their students better understand and embrace our country's roots.
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-Gloucester County on the Move10/16/2008 |
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Italian Culture Class Find Amore in N.J.
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In Caterina Dawson's Italian-language class at Glassboro High School, they don't study the
verb to whack. There are no goodfellas, wiseguys, godfathers or dons. Conspicuously absent, too, is Tony
Soprano, New Jersey's most infamous fictional native son...
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-Philadelphia Inquirer10/13/2008 |
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For 9/11, How Some Schools Go Beyond Silence
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Seven years after terrorists struck in New York, Washington and rural Pennsylvania, there is no consensus in the educational community on what or how to teach students about the attacks, or even whether Sept. 11 should be mentioned at all.
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-Philadelphia Inquirer09/15/2008 |
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Nystrom Partners with AIHE
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Nystrom and the American Institute for History Education (AIHE) are committed to helping teachers teach and students learn.
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-Press Release09/03/2008 |
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Repackaging History
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With a Swedesboro-based company's interactive Web teaching tool to be released in its full version, history textbooks may be forgotten on dusty bookshelves in classrooms across Gloucester County soon.
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-South Jersey News Online04/25/2008 |
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