Application deadlines are coming up for a variety of summer institutes and programs for teacher professional development. If you are an English/History/Social Studies teacher in the United States and have never applied for one then you are missing out! (There are plenty of programs for other disciplines too, I just don't know about them) I [...]
Tag: Religious Worlds of New York
Religious Worlds of New York Curriculum Projects
The full file of Curriculum Development projects are on the Religious Worlds of New York website, but I wanted to highlight some of the my favorite projects done by the last cohort group. I also wrote a blog post highlighting my Curriculum Development project HERE! “If You Can’t Take the Heat”: Jewish and Islamic Dietary [...]
Veneration of the Virgin: The Art of Icons in Greek Orthodox Theology
Update! our curriculum development projects are live! CHECK EM OUT! One of the fabulous things about the Religious Worlds of New York NEH Summer Institute is that each participant also had the opportunity to create a lesson plan fit for their teaching curriculum. This meant that not only did I get 3 weeks of incredible [...]
10 Reason to Choose Religious Worlds of NYC Summer Institute
Educators, Summer may seem oh so very far away but its time to starting thinking of attending summer programs! The National Endowment for the Humanities has their Summer Institutes for 2018 up on their website! If you follow the blog, you probably saw that I attended my first summer institute in New York City this [...]
Bringing History to Life with Site-Visits
As both a teacher of world and art history there are so many times when I feel that the material I am teaching would make much more sense to then if I could show them an all-immersive experience outside the four walls of my classroom. Unfortunately, those experiences are far and few in between during [...]
