Welcome to the Teaching American History Grant Orientation Meeting

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Welcome to the Teaching American History
GrantOrientation Meeting
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Our Goal

• To improve teachers American history content
  knowledge.

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Our Purpose

• The Teaching American History grant is here to
  help you to be the best teacher that you can be!

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The content focus this year

• The 1900s-now

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Our Partners

• American Institute for History Education
• Fresno City and County Historical Society
• CSU Fresno History Department
• Fresno County Office of Education IT
• Anodyne PDS (evaluator)

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American Institute for History Education

• Historical content delivered by experts from
  across the United States
• Cicero
• Teaching Techniques

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Fresno City and County Historical Society

• Workshops/Field Studies
• Civil War Revisited
• Time Travelers
• Ms. Sharon Hiigel!

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CSUF History Department Field Study

• October 17/18
• Overnight trip to Los Angeles, CA
• Japanese American National Museum
• Museum of Tolerance
• Olvera Street

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History Book Club

• Four content-specific scholarly books
• CSU Fresno will lead discussions on two of the
  books

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This year you will

• Get lots of resources
• Interact with EXPERTS
• Have access to wonderful password-protected
  websites which include vast amounts of lessons
  and countless opportunities to enhance your
  knowledge and teaching
• Make connections with your colleagues
• COLLABORATE
• Earn a stipend (Stipend is paid only for 11
  listed colloquia/workshop/institute days)

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What do you have to do?

• Turn In or Fax signed Administrative
  Acknowledgment of Support by October 2
• Take pre- post-tests
• Administer to your students pre- post- tests
  (if you have 5th, 8th, or 11th grade students)
• Create two lessons (alone or with a group). These
  will be due on 2 separate dates during
  spring/summer
• Recruit a CONTROL GROUP TEACHER
• (theyll get 100 to prepost-test students)

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Control Group

• Teachers must have a 5th, 8th, or 11th grade
  students (U.S. History classes)
• Control group teachers and their students will
  take both the pre- post-test
• When testing is completed the teacher will
  receive a 100 stipend, but only after theyve
  completed both taking/administering pre-
  post-tests.

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A word from our evaluator, Mr. Bill Kerney

• Seen here reading Angel Island Poetry

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Colloquia Workshop Dates

• Nov. 6 7, 2009 Fall Colloquia
• Jan. 29 30, 2010 Winter Colloquia
• March 26 27, 2010 Spring Workshop
• June 14-18, 2010 Summer Institute
• (Additional dates/opportunities to be announced.
  Trainings, book club meetings, etc.)

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Substitutes

• Three Fridays will require a substitute.
  Districts will be reimbursed for the sub pay.

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Are You Ready to Register?

• www.fcoe.net/ela/tah.htm
• Click on Online Applications click here as an
  online participant
• Organization Management System (OMS)
• When we receive your registration via OMS, we
  will send you an email confirmation and a welcome
  note.
• Lastly SPREAD THE WORD of this opportunity TO
  YOUR COLLEAGUES!

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Thank You!

• We look forward to working together with you to
  make this a magnificent experience!