Maryland Center for History and Culture Summer Teacher Institute Begins Next Week
July 11, 2023
UMD Historians Help Train K-12 Teachers
Teachers never rest and summer is the season for many K-12 educators to engage in professional development. With that in mind, MCHC is proud to announce that we once again helping teachers across our state to do just that. All next week, from Monday to Friday, the Center will be bustling with teachers joining us for our annual Summer Teacher Institute, which we offer in partnership with the Department of History at the University of Maryland. Richard Bell is the faculty director for this week-long program but the real work is done by our brilliant and tireless Education Department team, led by David Armenti.
The theme this year is "Liberty and Justice for All?: Freedom and Citizenship in the New Republic." We designed this focus on the critical decades from 1775 to 1825 to help the 20 teacher participants coming to our campus next week to engage with the questions raised in our wonderful Unfinished Revolution exhibition and with the extraordinary strengths of our library collections.Anyone who finds themselves near France Hall or the Baldwin Library next week should stop in and see what we are up to. We’ll also be making off-site visits to our partners at Fort McHenry and Riversdale House Museum.
Education is the Center’s core mission. We are very pleased to have Katie, David, and the staff delivering this professional development program to our educators and that the lessons they learn at the Center will then inform their classroom teaching this fall and likely for years to come.
Schedule of Events. Liberty and Justice for All?: Freedom and Citizenship in the New Republic Summer Teacher Institute 2023
Monday, July 17th
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Breakfast & Introductions: Staff/Facilitators, Teachers, Maryland Center for History and Culture
10:30 - 11:30 AM
MCHC Education Staff: Museum and Exhibition Walk Through (Behind the Scenes)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Introduction to Institute & Structure
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch (Provided)
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Leah Renzi Lecture (Coordinator of Social Studies, MSDE): Curricular Updates and Connections
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Dr. Richard Bell Lecture: The Revolution from the Bottom Up
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Intro to Digital Collections & MCHC Education Programs (Historical Investigations Portal)
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Fort McHenry Field Trip Preview & Preparation
Tuesday, July 18th
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Breakfast and Review
9:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Field Trip: Fort McHenry National Historic Site
12:00 – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Travel Time
2:00 - 3:15 PM
Marcus “Sankofa” Nicks Lecture: Free African Americans and the Pursuit of Education
3:15 - 4:30 PM
MCHC Education Staff: Historical Investigations Model and Teaching with Primary Sources
Wednesday, July 19th
9:00 - 9:30 AM
Breakfast and Review
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
MCHC Library and Imaging Services Staff: Introduction to Library Collections & Research
11:00 – 12:00 PM
Dr. Cassandra Good Lecture: Gender Politics and Women’s Roles in the Early American Republic
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch (Provided)
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Library Research and Lesson Plan Development
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Dr. Richard Bell Lecture, The Second Middle Passage: America’s Domestic Slave Trade
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Maryland State Archives Staff Presentation: Introduction to the Mayis Indigenous Records Portal
Thursday, July 20th
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Breakfast and Review
9:15 - 12:00 PM
Field Trip: Riversdale House Museum
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Research and Lesson Plan Development (Library and Search)
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Dr. Richard Bell Lecture, Our Native Country: Black Citizenship and the Colonization Movement
Friday, July 21st
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Breakfast and Review
9:15 - 10:00 AM
Intro to Virtual Field Trips
10:00 AM - 2:15 PM (Lunch provided, take independently)
Finalize Research & Lesson Plan Development
2:15 - 4:15 PM
Participant Presentation of Instructional Resources
4:15 - 4:30 PM
Documentation and Evaluation Wrap-Up