TEC
A Teaching American History
A
Federal Grant Program
presented by
H
The
Education Cooperative
WALKING
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LEGENDS AND ORDINARY FOLK:
BOSTON
AS BACKDROP AND BATTLEGROUND
A
UNIQUE AMERICAN HISTORY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR
EDUCATORS
The Education Cooperative in
partnership with Jonathan Chu at UMass Boston,
the Freedom Trail
Foundation, Old
Sturbridge Village, the Old South
Meeting House,the Paul Revere House
and the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston has been awarded a Teaching American History Grant by the United States Department of Education. The grant will highlight events in Boston leading up to and during the American Revolution. Participants will learn and explore primary sources related to the work of Paul Revere
and his contemporaries, learn about the past through legends and ordinary
people, and study economic, social, and political life in rural New
England in the early part of the century following the American
Revolution.
The cooperative of 15 member districts is offering a professional development program for library
media specialists and all teachers of American history. The program includes graduate credit courses (three-credit
and one-credit courses), colloquia, and online courses. The content offered in the programs (based on the
Massachusetts curriculum frameworks) will be most appropriate for middle
and high school educators including library media specialists, special
educators, fine arts teachers and department chairs.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
COURSE
DESCRIPTIONS
FOR
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH
SCHOOL TEACHERS
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