Teaching American History
Teachers Discovering History as Historians
Personnel
• Paul Benson
• TAH Project Director
• Rick Walters
• Special Project JPS and Adjunct Professor
at JCC in U.S. History
• Carol Shick
• TAH Technology and Program Consultant
• Rick Bates
• GST TAH Coordinator, Bath Central HS
TAH Foundations
• Senator Robert Byrd of WV
• American Council of Trustees and
Alumni Test on U.S. History
• 80% received a D or F
• $50 Million to U.S. Dept. of Education
• 2001 60 Grants
• Currently 779 Grants 2001-2007
• Nearly a Billion Dollars in Awards
• JPS Three Grants Total: $2,676,367
Rationale
• Limited High Quality History
Professional Development
• Academic and Pedagogical Isolation of
Teachers
• Increasing Demands of High Stakes
Testing and NCLB
• Emerging Technologies to Enhance
Teaching and Learning of U.S. History
Grants I and II
• 2002: Chautauqua County
• 2004: Allegany, Cattaraugus and
Southern Erie Counties
• 100 U.S. History Teachers in Grades 4,
5, 7, 8, 11, & 12
• Annual Summer Seminars
• Fall and Spring Inservices
Greater Southern Tier TAH Grant
• 2006: Allegany, Cattaraugus,
Chautauqua, Chemung, Schuyler,
Southern Erie, Steuben Tioga,
Tompkins and Counties
• Annual 5 Day Summer Seminar
• Fall and Spring Inservices
• Western Southern Tier Council for the
Social Studies
TAH Service Area
• Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung,
Schuyler, Southern Erie, Steuben Tioga, and
Tompkins Counties
• 68 School Districts
• Over 5,000 Square Miles
• 300+ Teachers Participating
TAH Speakers
Dr. John Q. Barrett
Dr. Allida Black
Ms. Jare Cardinal
Dr. Paul Finkelman
Dr. Lee Formwalt
Dr. Judy Graves
Dr. Ole Holsti
Mr. Rick Jemison
Dr. James Lang
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Dr. Chuck McDew
Dr. Sara McNeil
Dr. Douglas Monroy
Dr. Mike Oberg
Dr. Nicholas Onuf
Dr. Peter Onuf
Dr. Philip Payne
Dr. Robert Porter
Dr. Robert Pratt
Mr. Larry Robinson
Mr. Eric Rothschild
Ms. Emily Rubenfield
Mr. Chris Sperry
Dr. James Stephens
Mr. Mark Stephens
Dr. Jeremi Suri
Mr. Todd Waite
Dr. Chuck Walker
St. Johns University
George Washington Univ.
Iroquois National Museum
Albany School of Law
Org. of American Historians
Library of Congress
Duke University
Seneca Nation
Vanderbilt University
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Metropolitan State Univ.
University of Houston
Colorado College
SUNY Geneseo
Florida International Univ.
University of Virginia
St. Bonaventure University
Syracuse School of Law
University of Georgia
Partners and Robinson
Columbia Teachers College
Germantown Academy
Project Look Sharp
Carlisle School, Virginia
Germantown Academy
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison
Seneca Nation
St. Bonaventure University
Nuremberg & Robert Jackson
Women’s Rights
Native American Issues
U.S. Constitution
Historiography
LOC Website
International Terrorism
Native American Issues
3rd World Energy & Food
Civil Rights
Civil Rights
Digital History Textbook
Hispanic Civil Rights
Native American Civil Rights
U.S. Foreign Policy Theory
Revolution & Atlantic System
General Advisor U.S. History
Recent Political History Seneca
Civil Rights
Dynamics of Professional Change
Simulations in U.S. History
Classroom Simulations
Ithaca College
Media Analysis U.S. History
Classroom Simulations
Cold War and Foreign Policy
Seneca Culture and Nation Policy
Classroom Evaluation
2009 Summer Seminar
States Foreign Policy and
International Relations
July 6th through July 19th
• Dr. Alan Gibson University of California
at Chico
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Dr. Paul Finkelman Albany Law School
Dr. Andrew Rotter Colgate University
Dr. Robert K. Brigham Vassar College
Dr. Jeremi Suri : Univ. of Wisconsin Madison
Western Southern Tier Council for the
Social Studies
• Social Studies Oriented Group
• Three Divisions Across Region
• Fall Conference
• SED and District Advocacy
• Sub-Council of NYSCSS
• Longevity after TAH
Local Partners
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Chautauqua Institution
Corning Museum of Glass
Chemung Valley History Museum
Fenton History Center
Robert H. Jackson Center
Rockwell Museum of Western Art
Seneca Nation of Indians
Western Southern Tier Council for the Social
Studies
Requirements
• Pre-approved Participation in Two
Scheduled Inservices Next Year: One
being WSTCSS Fall Conference
• 2009 Summer Seminar
• Join the WSTCSS
• Cooperate with Brown University
Education Alliance Evaluation Team
Things Here and to Come
• http://tdhahwiki.wikispaces.com/
• Pursuing a fourth TAH Grant partnering with
the Elmira City School District to promote
teacher mentoring and Reading and Literacy
Skills through Social Studies
• Vodcasting U.S. History Presentations to
Benefit Students Requiring Remediation and
Regents Review
Teachers Discovering History As
Historians