Professional Development Programs for Teachers News News and information about upcoming professional development opportunities for Chicago-area teachers offered through the Newberry Library and beyond. http://www.newberry.org/research/teacherprograms/news/default.asp en-us Newberry Blogger Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST NSAHC Teaching American History Symposium Registration is now open for the next Teaching American History Symposium. Come hear NSAHC grant participants present lesson plans they have created. Louis Masur from Trinity College will provide a keynote address.

The symposium will be held here at the Newberry Library on December 14, 2009 from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. CPDU credits will be availble for those that attend. There is no substitute coverage available for this event.

To register please visit: www.newberry.org/teacherprograms/nsahc

This event is sponsored the NSAHC, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Newberry Library. Support for this event comes from a Department of Education Teaching American History grant.

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Wednesday, November 11
Newberry Colloquium: Teacher Programs: It's What's For Lunch!, led by Professional Development Programs for Teachers Staff. 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. All are welcome.

Friday, November 13
Chicago Teachers as Scholars: The American Renaissance in Context led by Lawrence Howe, Roosevel University. 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Registration required.

Newberry Teachers' Consortium: I Know It's Only Rock n' Roll, but I Teach It: American History and Culture through Popular Music led by Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Newberry Teachers' Consortium: The United States in an Age of Empire (1890-1920) led by Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

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ChicagoTAS
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]]> http://www.newberry.org/research/teacherprograms/news/default.asp?postid=1002 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST 1002 Chicago History Museum Teacher Workshop Teacher Workshop: Monumental Lincoln

Saturday, November 21, 9:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Earn 3 CPDUs; $40, advance registration required

Discover how to incorporate public art into your history instruction. Join high school teacher and author James Percoco on a visual journey of Lincoln monuments across the country, comparing the intentions at their unveilings with our responses to them today. See the exhibition Abraham Lincoln Transformed and investigate the Lincoln monument behind the Museum. Fee includes a copy of Percoco's Summers With Lincoln, breakfast refreshments, lesson plans, and numerous additional classroom resources.

Sign up today! To make a reservation, call 312.642.4600 or visit www.chicagohistory.org/education.

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Tuesday, November 3
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: Populist Movements in American History, led by Robert Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Wednesday, November 4
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: The Rise of Europe's Middle-Class in the Nineteenth Century, led by David Spadafora, Newberry Library. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Thursday, November 5
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: Populist Movements in American History (Session 2), led by Robert Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Friday, November 6
History Channel Seminar Series: European and Indigenous Encounters in the Colonial Americas, led by Carla Zecher, Newberry Library and Garry Sparks, University of Chicago. 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Wait list only.

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Wednesday, October 28
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: Tim O'Brien's /The Things They Carried/, led by Benjamin Goluboff, Lake Forest College. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Thursday, October 29
Remembering Lincoln at 200, led by Daniel Greene, The Newberry Library and Libby Mahoney, Chicago History Museum. 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Registration required.

Friday, October 30
Remembering Lincoln at 200, led by Daniel Greene, The Newberry Library and Libby Mahoney, Chicago History Museum. 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Registration required.

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Newberry Teachers' Consortium
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Chicagotas
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Tuesday, October 20
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: Graphic Novels in the Language Arts Classroom, led by Spencer Schaffner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Wait list only.

Friday, October 23
Picturing America School Collaboration Conference: Interpreting the American Landscape keynote by Neil Harris, University of Chicago. 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. Full.

Saturday, October 24
Picturing America School Collaboration Conference: Interpreting the American Landscape Day 2. 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. Full.

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Wednesday, October 14
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: The History of Latinos in the United States, Session 2 led by Ramon Gutierrez, University of Chicago. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Registration required.

Wednesday, October 14
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1944-1989 led by Malgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois at Chicago. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Thursday, October 15
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: Bringing Latin American Poetry in the United States led by Kristin Dykstra, Illinois State University. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Registration required.

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Tuesday, October 6
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: Sugar and Colonialism led by Valentia Tikoff, DePaul University. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Registration required.

Wednesday, October 7
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: From Colony to Postcolony: The Literature of Empire and its Aftermath led by Sunil Agnani, University of Illinois at Chicago. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Wednesday, October 7
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: The History of Latinos in the United States led by Ramon Gutierrez, University of Chicago. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Thursday, October 8
Newberry Teachers' Consortium: Chicago's Literary Journalism led by Bill Savage, Northwestern University. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Wait list only.

Friday, October 9
History Channel Seminar Series: Traveling Through Time with Maps of Discovery, Exploration, and Travel led by James Akerman, Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library; and Robert Karrow, Jr., Curator of Special Collections and Maps, The Newberry Library. 9:00am to 3:00 pm.

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Newberry Teachers' Consortium
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History Channel Seminar Series
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