We are pleased to announce our teaching and learning program for the annual meeting 2015. The wide-ranging program presents you with the perfect opportunity to enhance your professional development and return to your classroom with a host of inspirational new ideas.

The program covers teaching at K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels, and caters to all career stages. We address the acquisition of core skills in sessions such as Student Writing: Assigning, Reading, Commenting and Teaching Students Chronology: Strategies to Help Students Develop a Chronological Framework and highlight the new skills, challenges and opportunities that the use of technology brings to the classroom: for example Digital Pedagogy for History: Lightning Round, and Virtual Tours for Teaching History in the Digital Age.

Highlights

Of particular note this year are two events that focus on the high school/college continuum, and the acquisition of common skills that students require throughout their education. Explore the concept further in the poster Preparing Future Faculty alongside High School Teachers: A Workshop Model and on the panel session Bridging the High School/College Divide: Conversations toward Creating a Comprehensive History Pedagogy.

We invite all attendees to a Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity on Sunday, January 4. This is your chance to meet with fellow educators, exchange ideas and information, and share your experiences.

For those beginning their careers, please come by and have your say at the Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum: Learning to Teach, and if you are at a community or two-year college we look forward to welcoming you at the Reception for Two-Year Faculty. Both events are on Saturday, January 3.

For sessions and events that might be of interest to K-12 educators, see our K-12 web guide for the annual meeting.

Complete Listing of Teaching and Learning Sessions of Interest

Friday, January 2

Teaching and Learning the Great War in the Digital Age
Teaching Students Chronology: Strategies to Help Students Develop a Chronological Framework
Teaching the Common Core: Writing Arguments
Undergraduate Experience and Current Scholarly Trajectory: A Panel Honoring Mary Beth Norton
What Should History Teachers Learn at Historic Sites? A Research Agenda
Constitutional History in the High School Classroom
New Initiatives to Improve Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: Projects and Perspectives
Teaching the Common Core: Citing Evidence Workshop
A Thematic Approach to Teaching World War I
Making History “Popular”: Challenges and Opportunities in the College Classroom

Saturday, January 3

A New Scale: Teaching History in a Massive, Open, Online Environment
New Politics of Exclusion after the Civil Rights Movement: Perspectives from the Desegregated Schools
Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 1: PechaKucha 1: Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the U.S. History Survey Course
Teaching Queer History
Digital Pedagogy for History: Lightning Round
The Global Tuning Project: Reframing Historical Study in the European Union, Latin America, and the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
Assessing Student Learning in History
Student Writing: Assigning, Reading, Commenting
Teaching Liberal Arts in “Illiberal” Places
The Atlantic, Pacific, and In-Between: Bringing Transnational History to the United States Survey Course through the Study of Immigration

Sunday, January 4

Enhancing Undergraduate Student Success: An Initiative to Improve Student Learning in Introductory U.S. History and Other Disciplines
Connection and Community: Teaching Family History in the Classroom
American Religion Online: How Digital Projects Can Change How We Teach, Research, and Interpret Religious History
Education in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
Many Lessons for Many Students
Whither the History Major?
War Material: Perspectives on the Study of the Material Culture of Conflict in the United States and Europe
Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 3: Incorporating the Atlantic and the Pacific into the U.S. and the Comparative Americas Survey Courses: Methodologies for the Classroom
How Teaching Became a Mission of the American Historical Association from the 1960s
Teaching World History across Time, Space, and Place
The Northern Paiute History Project: Engaging Undergraduates in Decolonizing Research with Tribal Community Members
CLAH Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee: Teaching Latin America in the “Global Sixties”

Monday, January 5

Collaboratively Teaching Research Methods in Asian Studies and History
Teaching with Primary Sources: What Students Wish Professors Knew
History and the Other Disciplines in the Classroom: Creating Connections to History through Interdisciplinary Courses and Programs
Learning in Networks of Knowledge (LINK): Toward a New Digital Tool for Cultivating Historical Thinking
The Black 1980s: Politics, Culture, and New Historiographies
Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 4: Going Global in the U.S. History Survey
What’s the Problem? Turning Teaching Questions into Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research
Bridging the High School/College Divide: Conversations toward Creating a Comprehensive History Pedagogy
Lessons Learned from the AHA’s Bridging Cultures Program, Part 5: PechaKucha 2, Incorporating the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the U.S. History Survey Course

Special Events

Food Will Win the War: A K-12 Educators’ Workshop on Teaching World War I, 1914–19
Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum: Learning to Teach
Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity
Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching
Reception for Two-Year Faculty
K–12 Reception

Poster Sessions

Poster Session #1
Virtual Tours for Teaching History in the Digital Age
From Minecraft to Mindcraft: Integrating Digital Humanities into History Courses

Poster Session #2
Teaching Graduate Students to Code 
Public Policy in Teaching Historical Methods 
Preparing Future Faculty alongside High School Teachers: A Workshop Model 
Integrating a Video “Narrative Lab” in the History Survey Course 
National History Day Senior Individual Exhibit Winner: “Malaga Island: The Community That Maine Erased” 
Standardizing the Periodic Table: Science, Pedagogy, and Graphical Representation