Tuesday, December 9th Seminar
Nov. 8th Seminar -- Video of Professor Siemers Presentation
UW System Conference for Historians & Educators -- November 7th at UW Eau Claire
2nd annual UW system-wide conference, entitled "Historians and Educators: Building & Assessing Partnerships," to be held at UW Eau Claire, Davies Center. Excellent chance for university/college historians and K-12 teachers to network. Conference runs from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., and includes a continental breakfast and lunch. Attendees are not charged fees to attend. Additional conference information and registration materials are posted in the "Teaching Resources" section.
(Excerpt from June 18, 2008 letter sent out by Co-Chairs of Conference)
Last year’s successful history education conference (New Directions in History Teaching, March 2007) brought together history and education faculty from across the state who are deeply interested in the quality of history education at all levels. We learned that many of us are working in quasi-isolation at the campus level to build innovative history education partnerships; some of these partnerships could serve as models for others, some of these partnerships might benefit from the shared wisdom of others.
Our goal this year, as last, is to foster a conversation among historians and education faculty about teaching history to undergraduates. This second conference will extend that conversation to the teaching of history at all levels by including sessions on building historian and K-12 educator collaboration, assessing existing partnerships, preparing students for careers outside the K-12 classroom, and options for creating a history educators’ consortium for professional development.
Why Does it Matter?
* Share ways to improve the state of history education in Wisconsin and at your institution.
* Meet new colleagues and renew old acquaintances with people who share your belief in the importance of history in the classroom.
* Learn from our Keynote speaker: Leon Fink, whose topic is "The Shipping News: A Maritime Perspective on American History, 1776 to the Present."
Leon Fink is professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has taken a leading role in national history education circles, where he has stressed the necessary collaboration between the university and the public schools. Most recently, Fink was honored with a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue research on the Shipping News project. His keynote will offer a window on history in the making and connections between the development of new historical knowledge, the course of American history, and teaching globalization in the 21st century.
Who is Planning This?
The planning committee is an ad hoc group of historians and educators who became acquainted through their participation in and leadership of Teaching American History grant programs around the state and through last year’s system-wide conference. The committee welcomes anyone who would like to help with the planning.
If you have any questions, want to join the planning group or can offer financial co-sponsorship for the Historians and Educators: Building and Assessing Partnerships Conference, please contact either of the co-chairs, listed below:
Oscar Chamberlain Nikki Mandell
Planning Committee Planning Committee
History Department History Department
UW-Eau Claire UW- Whitewater
chambeob@uwec.edu mandelln@uww.edu
(715) 836-5275 (262) 472-1523
