American Historical Association

Teaching

126th Annual Meeting

Are you a teacher or interesting in teaching? Attend the 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago to participate in all the exciting events we have available relating to teaching.  See the list of workshops, luncheons, receptions, and sessions below. Register for the meeting and take advantage of our deeply discounted hotel rates.

Teacher Continuing Professional Development Units

Teachers registered for the meeting can earn Continuing Professional Development Units for attending sessions and workshops. The Illinois state form will be provided daily to be completed by the teacher for each day attended. Teachers from outside the state of Illinois may be able to use the form for their own state's requirements. A new form will be available each day in Registration located in River Exhibition Hall B in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers.

Teacher-Student Rates

To nurture interest in history among students and to encourage their mentors, the AHA is offering special discounted annual meeting registration rates for teachers of high school,  undergraduate, pre-candidacy graduate students who  are AHA members and who are accompanied to the meeting by small groups of their students. Learn more here.

Workshops

Thursday, January 5

• Teaching Workshop: Recognizing Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  8:55 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
  Sheraton, Michigan Room*
  *Please note this room change. Originally the workshop was planned to be held in Chicago Ballroom X.

Saturday, January 7

• Teachinghistory.org Workshop: Teaching the Past in a Digital World: New Perspectives for History Education
  9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
  Sheraton, Ballroom IV

Luncheons & Receptions

Friday, January 6

• Organization of History Teachers Luncheon
  12:15–1:45 p.m.
  Marriott, Sheffield Room

• Reception for Two-Year Faculty
  5:30–7:00 p.m.
  Sheraton, Missouri Room

Saturday, January 7

• College Board/Advanced Placement Luncheon: Approaches to Teaching the Revised AP World History Curriculum
  12:15–1:45 p.m.
  Marriott, Sheffield Room

Sessions

Friday, January 6

• The Texas Social Studies Standard Experience
  9:30–11:30 a.m.
  Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom III

• Successfully Teaching in the Online Environment, Experiences, Tips, and Thoughts
  2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Sheraton, Chicago Ballroom IX

• Creating Creativity: A Discussion of Moving beyond Lecture in Today’s College Classroom
  2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Sheraton, Chicago Ballroom VIII

• EDSITEment Information Session
  4:45–6:00 p.m.
  Sheraton, Huron Room

• CLAH’s Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee
  5:00–7:00 p.m.
  Marriott, River North Room

Saturday, January 7

• Lighting up the Classroom? Then Talk to the Public! A Discussion
  9:00–11:00 a.m.
  Marriott, Clark Room

• Digital Technology and the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
  9:00–11:00 a.m.
  Sheraton, Chicago Ballroom VI

• Talk Data to Me: A Conversation with Historians about Using Large-Scale Digital Data in Research and Teaching
  11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
  Marriott, Armitage Room

• Creating a Blueprint for History and Social Science Education: Advancing Instruction, Assessment, Student Learning, and Engagement
  11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
  Marriott, Chicago Ballroom Salon F

• Teaching History in a Digital Age
  2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom IV

• Teaching and Learning U.S. Social History with HERB
  2:30–4:30 p.m.
  Sheraton, Chicago Ballroom IX
  

Sunday, January 8

• The Digital History Seminar
  8:30–10:30 a.m.
  Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom II 

• The Valley of the Shadow Project and Its Progeny after Twenty Years
  11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
  Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom V

• Whither the Future of the History Textbook
  11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
  Sheraton, Chicago Ballroom VI

• Art and History Education: Using Visual Arts to Spark Engagement in History and Build Interpretive Skills
  11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
  Marriott, Los Angeles Room