Center for History Education - University of Maryland Baltimore County

With the support of the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching American History Program, elementary and secondary school teachers from public schools in Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Howard County, and other area schools participate within their systems and at the Center for History Education at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Enrollment in all three programs is ongoing. K-12 U.S. History teachers in all three counties are invited to apply. Please contact che@umbc.edu for more information and application packets.

The program provides:

Graduate Summer Institutes conducted by UMBC historians and affiliated public historians and master teachers.
In-service Professional Development Workshops.
Follow-up mentoring sessions and access to instructional resources during the school year.

Teachers are invited to join a growing learning community dedicated to improving the teaching of American history in Maryland schools. Every year at our Summer Institutes, participants receive up-to-date content from historians and instructional strategies from master teachers. Additional sessions aid teachers to explore and create:

New lesson plans and activities that develop historical thinking skills.
Historical documents, with suggestions for their classroom use.
Classroom innovations and media that work well with students.

And:

How to guide students to use the Internet properly in the study of history.

Participants also have the opportunity to make new contacts and discover local, state, and national resources, including the Maryland State Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Library of Congress, State Library Resource Center/Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Martha Ross Center for Oral History.

The Maryland State Archives has incorporated primary-source materials from its collections and national repositories into Teaching American History in Maryland: Online Documents for the Classroom, a comprehensive classroom resource.

The contents of the Web site were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.