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.
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute
Dates of Seminar: June 11-17, 2012
Content Specialist: History experts from Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Jamestowne, and Yorktown
Pedagogy Specialist: Sara Hacken, TAH grant director, 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:
Teachers who participate in the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute will spend one week in the historic triangle area of Williamsburg, Jamestowne, and Yorktown., Virginia. 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 Virginia, and to investigate the lifestyles of various social levels in the eighteenth century including the gentry, middling sort, tradespeople, merchants, soldiers, women, and slaves.
Teachers will experience colonial life as they stay at historic homes, eat at Williamsburg taverns, meet and mingle with costumed historic interpreters, and visit sites of important events in US History.
