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.
Go Beyond the Textbook
Are you driven to teach? Participants are chosen from across Utah through a competitive application process. If accepted, you will have all your expenses covered by the program. The only thing you need to provide is your passion to teach.
- Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute
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.
- The Spanish Borderlands: Santa Fe Field Study
Teachers will explore daily life in colonial New Spain to better understand how the European colonization and settlement of North America still influences our country today.
- Foundations of America: Colonial America & Revolution in Boston
Teachers will visit sites from Boston to Philadelphia to get a first-hand understanding of the formation of America from European colonization, through the American Revolution.
