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May 8, 2006
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY TO HOLD CONFERENCE ON MAY 18 ON INTEGRATING LOCAL HISTORY INTO THE CURRICULUM
A conference designed to equip middle school and high school history teachers with the tools necessary to integrate local history into the curriculum will be held at William Paterson University in Wayne on Thursday, May 18, 2006 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the 1600 Valley Road Auditorium on campus. Admission is free.
“OurStory: Discovering Local History” will include a variety of workshops on how to select and use primary sources to tell the story of New Jersey. Topics include the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913, slavery in New Jersey, the Revolutionary War in New Jersey, and the women’s suffrage movement in New Jersey, among others. Teachers will learn how to connect local history topics to the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in social studies, and receive a CD-ROM that contains local history resources.
A keynote address will be presented at 9:15 a.m. by Kenneth Jackson, the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences at Columbia University and a specialist in American social and urban history. An expert in using local history as a laboratory for student learning, Jackson is the author of several books, including Cities in American History and The Suburbanization of the United States.
The conference is part of the OurStory Project, a place-based approach to teaching traditional American history that is funded by a Teaching American History Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Partners in the project include William Paterson University, the Bergen County Technical Schools, the New Jersey Historical Society, the Paterson Museum, Botto House/American Labor Museum, the Bergen County Historical Society, the Englewood Public Schools, the Garfield Public Schools, and the Record. The goal of the project is to increase teachers’ application of “place-based history” through customized programs during the school year and summer institutes connecting the classroom with local historical sites.
Teachers who participate may earn a professional development certificate for five hours (or 0.5 continuing education units) from William Paterson University. Breakfast and lunch will be served. For more information contact Joanne Ciriello, William Paterson University Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning, at (973) 720-2940 or cirielloj@wpunj.edu, or Mauro Magarelli, Bergen County Technical Schools, at (201) 343-6000 (x2385) or maumag@bergen.org. For registration information, visit the OurStory Web site at www.bergen.org/ourstory/mailer.htm.
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