We are pleased to announce our teaching and learning program for the 2016 annual meeting. 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.
Teaching Events
- Undergraduate Teaching Workshop: Assignments, Friday, January 8, 12:30 PM-3:00; Marriott, M 104. Please join us as we explore the roles that assignments can play in history courses, as well as their connections to both student learning outcomes and assessment. Featuring John Savagian (Alverno College). (Those who applied for and were accepted to the Charrette on assignments in introdcutory courses should expect to stay 12:30-4:30 PM.) Sponsored by the Lumina Foundation.
- K-12 Educators’ Workshop: Teaching the Long Civil Rights Movement, Saturday, January 9, 9:00 am-12:00 pm. Featuring Carol Anderson (Emory Univ.) and Brenda Santos (Achievement First Amistad High School). Cosponsored by James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies, Emory University.
- What Is Tuning? Saturday, January 9, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM; Hilton, Room 205
- Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity, >Saturday, January 9, 3:45 PM-4:45 PM; Hilton, Room 203
- K-12 Reception, Saturday, January 9, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM; Hilton, Crystal Ballroom C
- Reception for Two-Year Faculty, Friday, January 8, 2016: 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Crystal Ballroom A (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)
Teaching Sessions
Thursday
- Tuning History in General Education Courses, Thursday, January 7, 2016, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom D
- History and Dual/Concurrent Enrollment: Issues and Opportunities, Thursday, January 7, 2016, 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom A
- Big History: From the Classroom to Archives to the Profession and Back Again Grand Ballroom B (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor), Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Friday
- Making Learning Outcomes Work: Decoding Tuning Assessments and Course Designs with Tools from the History Learning Project, Friday, January 8, 2016, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Embassy Hall D
- Reading Sources: Strategies for Teaching In-Depth Document Analysis, Friday, January 8, 2016, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom C
- Digital Pedagogy in and out of the Classroom: Lightning Round, AHA Session 83,Friday, January 8, 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
- Teaching the History of Money, Friday, January 8, 2016, 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Embassy Hall D
- Redefining History: Paradigm Shift in the Historical Profession Salon C (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor), Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Saturday
- Roundtable Showcase: Developing and Using Avatars in the 21st-Century Classroom, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Embassy Hall D
- Off the Tenure Track but in the Classroom: Are There Short-term Reforms That Can Make a Difference for Faculty and Students?, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM-Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Imperial Ballroom, Salon A
- When We Were British: Mapping British Influence on Early America for the K-12 Classroom, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, Hilton Atlanta, Crystal Ballroom A
- Transforming the US History Survey Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1), Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
- Tuning the Master’s: Applying the Principles and Practices of the Tuning Project to Graduate Education Hilton, Crystal Ballroom A (First Floor), Saturday, January 9, 2016: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
- Riots in the Classroom: Overcoming Anxieties of Course Redesign, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom B
- Tuning the Master’s: Applying the Principles and Practices of the Tuning Project to Graduate Education, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Hilton Atlanta, Crystal Ballroom A
- Tuning the Transfer Student: Making History Education a Seamless Experience between Two-Year and Four-Year Academic Institutions, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Hilton Atlanta, Crystal Ballroom C
- The Promise of History Internships, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, International Ballroom North
- Practicum on Developing and Implementing Character-Driven Learning Simulations in History Classes, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Embassy Hall D
- Assessing Historical Thinking in a Gen Ed Classroom: Notes from the Field, Saturday, January 9, 2016, 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, Hilton Atlanta, Crystal Ballroom C
- Teaching History through Archives Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1), Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Sunday
- Tuning Sequential Methods Courses for History Majors, Sunday, January 10, 2016, 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, International Ballroom South
- A Useful Model: How Public and Academic Historians and K-12 Teachers Can Collaborate on Teaching Materials, Sunday, January 10, 2016, 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Hilton Atlanta, Crystal Ballroom A
- AHA Book Club #1: Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation, by William Sewell, Sunday, January 10, 2016, 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Grand Hall C, Lower Level 2
- AHA Book Club #2: College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, by Andrew Delbanco Sunday, January 10, 2016: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Grand Hall C, Lower Level 2
- Historical Thinking in Teacher Preparation: Preparing to Teach the Unnatural Act, Sunday, January 10, 2016, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, International Ballroom South
Poster Sessions
- Teaching Hidden Histories: A Multi-institution Collaboration in Higher Education
- Tuning the Western Civilization Survey: Teaching Historical Thinking Skills as College Survival Skills
- Teaching the Etruscans: How to Build a History Curriculum
AHA Affiliate Sessions
- Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 1; Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM; Grand Hall A (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 2)
- Historians Teach the Future, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 2; Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM; Grand Hall A (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 2)
- Organization of History Teachers Luncheon, Organization of History Teachers Saturday, January 9, 2016: 12:15 PM-1:45 PM; Room 305 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)
- Teaching the Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, American Society of Church History; Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM; International Ballroom 2 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Level)