Teaching and Learning at AHA20

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Teaching and Learning at AHA20

The AHA is committed to making the annual meeting a professional home for working teachers. That’s why our annual meeting program offers dozens of workshops, networking opportunities, and sessions for educators at all levels and at every stage of their careers. Use this guide to navigate the full spread of teaching events and topical sessions at AHA20.

Some new opportunities this year include sessions drawn from the AHA’s work on History Gateways, panels on how to teach online, a syllabus design workshop with the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History, sessions on approaches to graduate pedagogy and more.

Whether attendees are looking to incorporate new sources and methods into their teaching or to continue to develop their teaching as an expression of disciplinary identity—or both—there are sessions for teachers of all levels at AHA20.

We are pleased to announce that that teachers in New York state will be eligible to receive Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credit for attending selected sessions and workshops at the AHA annual meeting through an agreement with the New York City Department of Education. All sessions and workshops eligible for CTLE credit have been identified in the list below. If you are a New York state teacher seeking CTLE credit for one of these sessions, you will need to fill out a sign-in form at the session/workshop provided by the session chair. If you have any questions about CTLE credit, please contact Megan Connor (mconnor@historians.org).

The AHA has received a sponsorship from the Teagle Foundation to offer complimentary registrations to NYCPS teachers for the 2020 Annual Meeting. If you are an NYCPS teacher, email annualmeeting@historians.org for a promo code to use on the registration form.

Workshops

Introducing History: Syllabus Design with the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History
Friday, January 3, 2020: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Eligible for CTLE credit

K–16 Educators’ Workshop: Hold On—I Thought I Knew This Story!
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Eligible for CTLE credit

Assignment Charrette: Undergraduate and K-16 Teaching Workshop
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Workshop: Teaching History’s Relevance to Policy: Applying the History and Policy Education Program to the Classroom and the Community
National History Center of the American Historical Association
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Events

Reception for Two-Year Faculty
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 7:30 PM-8:30 PM

Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:45 PM-4:45 PM

K-12 Reception
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 6:30 PM-7:30 PM

Sessions

A variety of sessions focus on specific themes and problems in the world of teaching, such as the politicization of classroom teaching, the challenges and opportunities facing graduate education, and emerging educational tools and approaches. From time periods and geographic regions to classroom concerns, there’s a session that caters to you.

Introductory Courses

What Is the Future of the Introductory Course in History?
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Organized as part of the AHA’s History Gateways initiative
Eligible for CTLE credit

Strategies for Redesigning Introductory Courses in History
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Organized as part of the AHA’s History Gateways initiative

What’s So Great about Intro Courses?
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

World History for the 21st Century: Redesigning the College History Introductory Curriculum
Monday, January 6, 2020: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Approaches to Graduate Education

Practicing Pedagogy: A Discussion on Graduate and Early Career Teaching
Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

The Job Market and Mental Health: A Conversation on Career Diversity and Graduate Education
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Baking Career Diversity into Graduate Education: Reflections from the Field
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

The New Normal? Integrating Career Pathways in History Graduate Education
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Building Career Diversity into the Graduate Curriculum
Monday, January 6, 2020: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Teaching and Politics

The Nazi Legacy in the Trump Era: Research, Pedagogy, and Public Engagement
Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Educating for Activism? Historians and Politics in the Contemporary United States Conference on Faith and History
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

The Role of History Educators in a Time of Crisis
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Eligible for CTLE credit

Never Again Is Now: Teaching Japanese American History to Inspire Action and Empathy Today
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

The Professor in Polarized Times: Challenges of Free Speech and Inclusion on Campus and in the Classroom
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Rethinking Resources and Pedagogy

The Benefits and Challenges of Teaching History Online
Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Teaching and Pedagogical Reform in Ancient History at the Community College
Association of Ancient Historians
Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Teaching US History through Sports
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Innovative Approaches for Fostering Student Engagement in Online History Classrooms
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

From Courses and Degrees to Careers and Citizenship: Communicating the Value of History
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Innovative Approaches to Engaging Our Community College History Students
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Podcasts as Pedagogy: Ideas for How to Teach History with Podcasts
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Teaching Historical Methods and Imagining the Archives
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Hands-on History: Creating Experience in the Classroom
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Eligible for CTLE credit

Teaching Students How to Write History
Monday, January 6, 2020: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Eligible for CTLE credit

Teaching With Digital Tools

What Does It Mean to "Teach w/#Dighist"?
Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Digital Collaborations in African History: New Methods and Sources
Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Virtual Reality for Historical Research and Pedagogy
Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Digital Approaches to Communications, Mobility, and Geography in Medieval Europe
Friday, January 3, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

From the Studio to the (Digital) Archive: Interpreting Constructions of Race, Gender, and Identity in Photographs and Photographic Collections
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Teaching World History

Ideas and Methods for Teaching Global Indigenous Histories
World History Association
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Teaching World History to Prepare Students for Tomorrow: Building Partnerships across K–16 Classrooms
Saturday, January 4, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Eligible for CTLE credit

Situating the Environment in World History Courses
World History Association
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Lessons about Silver for the Early Modern Classroom
World History Association
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

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Teaching and Learning at AHA20

Workshops

Events

Sessions

Introductory Courses

Approaches to Graduate Education

Teaching and Politics

Rethinking Resources and Pedagogy

Teaching With Digital Tools

Teaching World History

Other Topical Sessions