History teaching award available

[Lambert, Kirby]

Charles Redd Center Teaching Western History Award for K-12 Teachers

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The Western History Association and the Charles Redd Center are sponsoring four K-12 Teaching Awards to the Western History Association Annual Meeting. This year’s meeting will be held in scenic Lake Tahoe, Nevada October 13th-16^th, 2010.

 

The Award will include the following: Conference Registration, award banquet ticket, ticket to the opening reception, and $500 towards conference related costs including: hotel, travel, conference tours, or Continuing Education Credits. Award winners might also be invited to attend the Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop for free, an additional $300 value.

 

Applications for the 2010 Conference Award are due no later than August 15, 2010.  Pending funding, applications for the 2011 Conference in Oakland will be due by August 13, 2011.

 

2010 Application Materials Must Include:

 

• Resume

 

• Short Statement of how winning the award will benefit your students (no more than one page)

 

• One Letter of recommendation (Principal, Administrator, colleague, etc)

 

• Lesson Plan on the American West (any grade level K-12). The lesson plan must include examples of Active Learning and Assessment and be factually correct. All lessons should include a bibliography of both materials and sources used to create the lesson as well as historical scholarship upon which the lesson is based.* The lesson plans must also adhere to the scoring guidelines in on the rubric.

 

• Winners will be asked to present a part of their lesson at the conference to other teachers

 

• All files should be submitted either in Word or .pdf document formats and saved as YOUR NAME_TITLE

 

Deadline for 2010 award materials: August 15, 2010

 

Award details can be found at http://www.westernhistoryassociation.org/awards/

 

Please direct all materials and questions to the Western History Association’s Teaching Committee to Brian S Collier at Brian....@nd.edu

 

For more information about the Western History Association go to: http://www.westernhistoryassociation.org

 

*All applicants for the award will be sent a written release that allows the Western History Association and the Charles Redd Center to post your lesson on their websites and to possibly include your lessons in other publications. Your work will remain your own and you will be given appropriate citation and credit in any digital or print reproductions of your work. The release must be signed and returned for you to be eligible to win the 2010 award.

 

 

Kirby Lambert

Outreach and Interpretation Program Manager

Montana Historical Society

PO Box 201201 / 225 No Roberts

Helena, MT 59620-1201

406-444-4741

http://www.montanahistoricalsociety.com/ 

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