Teacher Workshops:

Fort Ligonier’s teacher programs are designed to provide inspiring and creative ideas for integrating history into multiple areas of the curriculum.   Fort Ligonier Teacher workshop participants will gain insight, ideas, lesson plans, and activities to take back to the classroom.  Participants will also walk away with content knowledge of our local history during the French and Indian War.

Each session demonstrates how to take historical facts, artifacts, a historic place, and immerse them with creative thought that will result in higher student engagement.  All programs emphasize multiple disciplinary teaching and are aligned to state and national standards.  Upon completion of the workshop, Fort Ligonier will submit your Act 48 hours to the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

A typical schedule includes:  morning workshop presentations and activities, lunch, a visit to the museum store to check out our collection of teacher resources, a guided tour of our historic site to view our amazing collection of primary source materials, afternoon presentations and activities.  Participants will develop and share a lesson plan using the information learned throughout the day.

The cost is $45.00 per workshop.  The price includes workshop materials, a catered box lunch, and admission to Fort Ligonier.  To register for one of the programs listed, or to schedule a workshop for your group, please contact the Education Department at:  724-238-9701 or education@fortligonier.org.

Professional development workshops offered:

Journaling with Primary Sources

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Discover how to use primary sources as a springboard for journal writing in your classroom.  Participants

will explore the importance and educational rationale for the use of primary source material as a higher

level thinking tool, actively engage in the practice of various journaling activities with primary sources,

and will be provided time to work on an individualized lesson plan for use in their classroom.

Language Arts Standards:  1.4B, 1.5A-G, 1.2A, B, C, 1.3F

History Standards: 8.3B, 8.2A, B, C, D

Grades: K-12

Act 48 hours earned:  5 hours

History and Language Arts:  Infusing rather than integrating

Friday, July 20, 2012

9:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.

Integration across curricular areas has always been important in education, but with the onset of the Common Core standards, the demands increase for teachers of history.  During this workshop participants will explore literacy practices that naturally lend themselves to learning historical content and can be infused seamlessly as an instructional tool rather than an additional assignment.  Through presentation, participation, and discussion participants will create a lesson plan to take back to the classroom and immediately use for infusing either subject with the other.

History Standards: 8.3B, 8.2A, B, C, D,

Language Arts Standards: 1.4A, B, C, 1.5A-G, 1.2 A, B, C, 1.3F

Grades:  K-12

Act 48 hours earned:  5 hours

Poetry, Art, and History:  Integrating and using poetry and art in the History Classroom

Friday, September 28, 2012

9:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.

Educational researchers and theorists long ago demonstrated the powerful connection between writing and learning.  According to Bruner, Emig, and Vygotsky, learners have been found to understand better when they can make sense of new information through reading, writing, speaking, listening, or visualizing.  Throughout history, history has been recorded using these modes.  During this workshop participants will learn through presentation, discussion, and active learning how to seamlessly integrate poetry and art into the history curriculum.

Language Arts Standards: 1.2C, 1.3C, D, 1.4A, 1.5A-G,

History Standards: 8.3B, 8.2A, B, C, D,

Arts and Humanities Standards: 9.1B, 9.2A, B, C, D, E, F, 9.3 A, D, F, 9.4 A, B, C, D

Grades: 5-12

Act 48 hours earned:  5 hours

Building and Defending a fortress:  A multiple-disciplinary look at local History

Date:  To be determined, or call to schedule this workshop for your group.

9:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.

Historic sites aren’t just about history.  Behind the history exists a lot of math, science, reading, writing, and art.  By taking a multi-disciplinary look at the historical events, contexts, and places one can see how the act of building and defending a fortress, such as Fort Ligonier, involved multiple disciplines.  Through this workshop teacher participants will engage with museum professionals to explore each content area’s involvement into the history of Fort Ligonier.

Standards:

Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening:  1.1B, 1.1D, 1.1F, 1.1G, 1.2A-C,

1.3A, B, D, E, F, 1.4A-C, 1.5A-G, 1.6A-F, 1.7A-C

Mathematics: 2.3A-F, 2.5A, B, 2.6A-E, 2.7 A, B, D, E, 2.8C, F, 2.9A-C, 2.10A

Economics: 6.1B, D, 6.3C, 6.4A, B

Environment and Ecology: 4.3B, 4.5A

Science, Technology, and Engineering: 3.2A1, A3, B1, B2, 3.3A4, 3.4A2, A3,

3.4B1-B4, 3.4C1-3, 3.4E7

History: 8.1A-C, 8.2A-D, 8.3A-D, 8.4A-D

Arts and Humanities:  9.2A-K

Geography: 7.1A, B, 7.2 A, 7.3A, 7.4 A, B

Grades: 5-12

Act 48 hours earned:  5 hours