The
2003 Summer Seminar was titled "Major Turning Points in U.S.
History." The seminar was composed of two areas:
a).
A survey of United States History from the Constitution through
the
present day.
b). A series
of professional development sessions covering technology, New
York State Standards and Social Studies Core Curriculum, the
Socratic Method and implementation techniques.
The 2003 ten day
summer seminar schedule included:
Day 1:
Historiography and Local History. Historiography is the
study of the multiple ways in which history is written.
Lee
Formwalt, Executive Director of the Organization of American
Historians conducted the lecture. See Lee's "Seven
Rules for Effective History Teaching or Bringing Life to the
History Class". Lee was assisted in
the afternoon by
Michelle
Henry, Chautauqua County Historian and Pam Brown, JPS Research
Specialist and Archivist (see Pam's work at
Educational Uses For
Local Government Records)
to present material on how to create local history. A wide
spectrum of resources and methods was featured.
JCC
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Day 2:
Constitution through the Civil War.
Peter
S. Onuf,
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at
the University of Virginia was our lecturer. Onuf
has written extensively on sectionalism, federalism, and political
economy, with a particular emphasis on the political thought of
Thomas Jefferson. With his brother, political theorist Nicholas G.
Onuf, and historian James E. Lewis, Jr., he is collaborating on
the second volume of
Federal
Union, Modern World, a history of international law and
order in the Atlantic states' system during the Age of Revolutions
and early nineteenth century.
JCC
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Day 3:
Field Trip with County Historian Michelle Henry. Departing
from the Ames parking lot in downtown Jamestown, we
visited the
Fenton
History Center, the
Chautauqua
Institution, and toured a number of local historical
landmarks and sites around the county.
Ames Parking Lot
(directions), 10 South Main Street, Jamestown 8:00
a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Day 4:
Reconstruction through the New Deal.
Phillip
Payne of St. Bonaventure University's
History Department lectured. Payne's
specializations are in United States and Public History. He
has taught at
St. Bonaventure
since 1998. His current project is a book on Warren G.
Harding's legacy entitled Our Worst President? The Harding
Scandals and the Making of History. His interest in Harding
carries over from is days as the Director of
The Warren G.
Harding Home and Museum. JCC
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Day 5:
New Deal
through the Present Day.
Eric
Rothschild
retired as Chair of the Social Studies Department at Scarsdale
High School in Scarsdale, New York, in 1998 after 36 years in the
classroom. Since retiring, he has been teaching at Columbia
University's Teachers College and at Manhattan College. Rothschild
has been a national figure in Advancement Placement U.S. History
(APUSH). On behalf of the College Board, he conducts
professional-development workshops, wrote the "Teacher's Guide to
APUSH", and served as a member of the Test Development Committee
and as the Question Leader at the AP annual "reading." He
has designed simulation games for
HarpWeek. with Alan Brinkley, Rothschild coauthored
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the
College Classroom. In 1991, Rothschild was elected to the
Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, the
first secondary-school teacher to serve on the board. That same
year, he was Social Studies Educator of New York State.
JCC
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Day 6:
Marco Polo and New York State Core Curriculum and Social
Studies Learning Standards. The seminar class was
split in half for Day 6, half attending a training in Marco Polo
with
Leslie
Bennett, Assistant Director of Staff Development at
Jamestown Public Schools and the second half with Patricia
Krenzer, Erie II BOCES Staff Development Specialist.
Marco Polo is the
versatile web site dedicated to providing standards based internet
content and professional development for K-12 teachers across the
country--as of 2007 this site is now called
Thinkfinity.
Patricia Krenzer presented the latest updates out of Albany
on the Social Studies Core Curriculum and the New York State
Learning Standards. There will be plenty of time for
Questions and Answers. Marco Polo training took place
in the Distance Learning Room at Jamestown High School; Ms. Krenzer's seminar was at the Robert H. Jackson
Center.
Days 7 thru 9:
Socratic Method and Specialized
Technology Training for History Teachers.
Judith
Guild,
Director of Staff Development at Jamestown Public Schools
conducted the session on the Socratic Method of classroom
instruction. Based on the principal of teaching through
inquiry, the Socratic Method is excellent for active learning.
Like Day 6, the class was split into two cadres. The
second cadre was introduced to a host of education based
technology trainings with
Rick Walters and Carol Shick. Rick Walters is JPS
Assistant Superintendent for Special Projects and Distance
Learning. Carol Shick is the JPS District Representative to
E2CC BOCES, School Library Media Specialist and technology
integrator. Their sessions covered internet research,
research materials, data bases, video streaming, Imovies, a
Library of Congress video conference, a seminar with media
specialist from Prentice Hall on the future of the textbook and a
training on
School Islands, a multitextual DBQ learning web site. The
Socratic Method seminar was held at the Chautauqua County Teacher's
Center on the 4th floor of the
JPS
Administration Building. Technology training took
place in the Distance Learning Room at Jamestown High
School.
Day 10:
Implementing Change. Larry Robinson of Partners and
Robins
on is one of the Western New York's finest trainers in
leadership development, team building and implementation
strategies. Larry brought the seminar to a close with
methods for retention of the vast amount of material participants
covered. He conducted exercises in adapting new
strategies to put the new material into practice. Addressing
the natural resistance to change, Larry discussed the many ways
of becoming better teachers and creating better
students.
JCC 8:00
a.m. - 3:00 p.m.