Professional Development Workshop for Secondary Teachers:
The Experience of Revolution: Imagining, Seeking, and Making Utopia
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Saturday, May 2, 2015 at the lllini Union Room 210 (General Lounge)
Meals throughout the day will be provided and we are offering Teacher Grants ($200) for secondary teachers that are accepted to attend (unfortunately these grants are not available for current UIUC students or employees of the university).
You can view the workshop program here
The workshop will explore questions of revolution and utopia across history and across the globe, with a particular focus on usable primary sources that bring alive people’s motives and experiences and can awaken student thinking and exploration. The workshop will begin with an opening presentation and discussion about ways of defining revolution and utopia, and practices in history that illustrate different ways people have imagined, sought, and tried to realize in practice a transformed reality to the one they experienced every day. This will be followed by 3 mini-workshops on reading and teaching primary documents connected to particular examples and issues—the particular areas of focus will be African American movements in the US, Iran and Islamic revolutions, and youth movements at the end of communism in the Balkans. Documents will be framed and contextualized by faculty presenters, who will lead a discussion on ways they can stimulate discussion in a secondary classroom (opening up important questions and encouraging critical exploration as much as informing students about a particular event, issue, person, movement, etc.) A final session will explore social media and the Arab Spring—with a particular focus on how to access and use materials for the classroom. (You can view the workshop program here)
The workshop offers professional development units for participating teachers (6.5 contact hours).
Illinois K-12 educator attendees are eligible to receive ISBE Professional Development Hour (PDH) recognition.
Others will receive university CEU (continuing education unit) recognition.
Objectives: 1) an exploration of the connections between utopia and revolution across different periods and regions. 2) a discussion of ways to contextualize and connect primary source documents 3) an exploration into the many different kinds of sources that may enliven the teaching of histories of revolution and utopia.
Learning outcomes: Instructors will leave with an array of primary source materials that can be used in the classroom to prompt student engagement with “revolution and utopia” across history. The presenters will help contextualize these primary source materials as well as provide space for concrete ideas as to how these topics might be approached in the classroom.
Register for the workshop here!
If you have any questions, contact Mark Steinberg (Professor of History) at [email protected]
The Experience of Revolution: Imagining, Seeking, and Making Utopia
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Saturday, May 2, 2015 at the lllini Union Room 210 (General Lounge)
Meals throughout the day will be provided and we are offering Teacher Grants ($200) for secondary teachers that are accepted to attend (unfortunately these grants are not available for current UIUC students or employees of the university).
You can view the workshop program here
The workshop will explore questions of revolution and utopia across history and across the globe, with a particular focus on usable primary sources that bring alive people’s motives and experiences and can awaken student thinking and exploration. The workshop will begin with an opening presentation and discussion about ways of defining revolution and utopia, and practices in history that illustrate different ways people have imagined, sought, and tried to realize in practice a transformed reality to the one they experienced every day. This will be followed by 3 mini-workshops on reading and teaching primary documents connected to particular examples and issues—the particular areas of focus will be African American movements in the US, Iran and Islamic revolutions, and youth movements at the end of communism in the Balkans. Documents will be framed and contextualized by faculty presenters, who will lead a discussion on ways they can stimulate discussion in a secondary classroom (opening up important questions and encouraging critical exploration as much as informing students about a particular event, issue, person, movement, etc.) A final session will explore social media and the Arab Spring—with a particular focus on how to access and use materials for the classroom. (You can view the workshop program here)
The workshop offers professional development units for participating teachers (6.5 contact hours).
Illinois K-12 educator attendees are eligible to receive ISBE Professional Development Hour (PDH) recognition.
Others will receive university CEU (continuing education unit) recognition.
Objectives: 1) an exploration of the connections between utopia and revolution across different periods and regions. 2) a discussion of ways to contextualize and connect primary source documents 3) an exploration into the many different kinds of sources that may enliven the teaching of histories of revolution and utopia.
Learning outcomes: Instructors will leave with an array of primary source materials that can be used in the classroom to prompt student engagement with “revolution and utopia” across history. The presenters will help contextualize these primary source materials as well as provide space for concrete ideas as to how these topics might be approached in the classroom.
Register for the workshop here!
If you have any questions, contact Mark Steinberg (Professor of History) at [email protected]