The goal of Driven to Teach is to make American history come alive in the classroom by taking Utah public school teachers to important historical sites. The hands-on seminars are designed to inform, inspire, and support excellent classroom teaching.
If you are a passionate teacher that really wants to help your students understand the significance of our past and how it applies to our future, we want to hear from you.
The Spanish Borderlands: Santa Fe Field Study
Dates of Seminar: June 16-23, 2012
Content Specialist: Dr. Jay Buckley, Associate Professor, BYU
Pedagogy Specialist: Cindy Ness, Master Teacher, Alpine School District
Enduring Understanding: Standard 4 and 5: Students will analyze European colonization and settlement of North America and learn the different reasons behind colonization. Students will understand the significance of the American Revolution in the development of the United States.
Brief Description of Field Study:
The Larry H. Miller Education Project and Zions Bank will sponsor a seven-day field study to the historic areas of Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Utah teachers of American history. The field study will commence on June 16 at Mesa Verde and then spend the duration of the week in the vicinity of Santa Fe.
Teachers will explore the economic, political and social events that led to independence and continue to shape and define our nation. We will use primary sources and technology to explore daily life in colonial New Spain, and to investigate the lifestyles of various social levels during the colonial and early republic eras including native peoples, Creoles, merchants, soldiers, missionaries, explorers, women, and slaves.
In addition to an extensive curriculum of lectures and on-site instruction, teachers will read and discuss several scholarly monographs and pedagogy publications and resources.
