HumanitiesAR is pleased to offer the first annual HumanitiesAR History Teacher Institute, a three-day FREE residential institute for K-12 teachers at Historic Washington State Park, located near Hope, Arkansas, from June 8-10, 2023.
The Institute seeks to bring together 20 K-12 teachers from across the state for an immersive exploration of the Southwest Arkansas region. This opportunity offers site-specific Arkansas history sessions, hands-on activities, free classroom resources, events featuring Historic Washington State Park living history demonstrations, archival research sessions at the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives (SARA) and a visit to the Arkansas Archaeological Society’s summer archaeological dig.
Activities of the Institute will be discussion of history of the Southwest Arkansas region and its applications in the classroom. These discussions will be complemented both by conversations with noted experts and by engaging participants in hands-on lessons that are easily transferred to classroom activities. Other primary sessions of the institute will be field-based engagement at an archaeological dig site representing the rich and relevant themes explored throughout the Institute, along with opportunity to conduct primary source research using the holdings of the Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives.
HumanitiesAR is interested in selecting a group of engaged participants who are at different phases of their careers. HumanitiesAR also hopes to create an institute group that reflects a diversity of perspectives in terms of professional and life experience as well as the schools and communities in which participants work.
Online applications open March 27 and are due April 21, 2023. The submission process is competitive and successful candidates will be notified by May 1 of the results. For more details and to apply, visit this link:
Contact Ann Clements, Education Outreach Coordinator, for more information at aclements@humanitiesar.org.