Greetings Scholars:
The New Jersey Amistad Commission would like to extend to you an invitation to submit your application to our 5th Annual Summer Institute at Montclair State University - August 2-4, 2011.
During the 3 days, 50 educators will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with knowledgeable historians and scholars, receive training and extensive tutorial with the on-line textbook for Educators – the Amistad web-based curriculum resource, as well as experience multimedia historic presentations by “Living Voices”. The sessions will be highlighted with thematic multimedia presentations which will be accompanied with historical lectures, so that participants can craft unit and lesson plans, study texts, topics, and ideas central to elementary and secondary social studies/ humanities education. Selected fellows will have access to Montclair State University’s library collections, with time reserved to pursue individual research. Further, the Institute aims to prepare participants to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in American History with an understanding of the significant contributions of African-Americans.This summer, the central focus for the Summer Institute will be thematic historical periods with an extensive tutorial with the Amistad web-based curriculum resource units that support those time periods. The four historic themes for this year will be:
· The Revolutionary War (African American soldiers and the question of freedom)
· Immigration and Industrialization (Great Migration, Ellis Island, Industrialization, child labor, Triangle Factory fire)
· Nativism and the American Identity (Americanization schools, Westward expansion)
· Peaceful discourse and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Suffrage, Farm Workers Movement and the Civil Rights Movement)
The Amistad Institute at Montclair State University will allow Educators a unique opportunity to be trained on the utilization of our web-based curriculum resource, a premier multimedia resource for teachers in the state but also allow a venue to receive professional development credit hours by enhancing their content knowledge and teaching methodology in areas of specific historical emphasis. The Amistad Summer Institute wants to guarantee opportunities for the multitude of district curriculum specialists and classroom teachers that will require training for statewide compliance with the Amistad legislation as well as the new Social Studies standards adoptions in 2012.
Completed applications should be submitted to the New Jersey Amistad Commission and should be postmarked no later than Friday, July 15, 2011. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and applicants will be notified of their acceptance no later than 1 week after deadline.
Upon notification of acceptance to the institute, applicants need to submit an e-mail by Monday, July 18, 2011 to Glender Terrell at glender.terrell@doe.stat.nj.us , which indicates whether or not they accept the offer. Please contact 609-984-6428 with any questions about the application process.
I look forward to receiving your applications-
In the Service of our Children -
Stephanie James Wilson
Stephanie James Wilson, M.A.
Executive Director
Amistad Commission - NJ Department of Education
