The AHA is committed to making resources available to educators at all levels and at every stage of their careers. That’s why the annual meeting’s teaching and learning program offers dozens of workshops, networking opportunities, and sessions to keep historians engaged with new and innovative teaching tools and scholarship. Use this guide to navigate the full spread of teaching events and topical sessions at AHA19.

Whether attendees are looking to incorporate new sources and methods into their teaching or continue to develop their approaches to pedagogy—or both—there are sessions for teachers of all levels at AHA19.

 

Workshops and Events

Undergraduate and K-16 Teaching Workshop: Assignments Charrette
Friday, January 4, 2019: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Marquette Room (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)

Present one of your teaching assignments and receive feedback from peers. Anyone with a valued teaching assignment (including traditional or experimental assignments, educational activities, or assessments) or a brand new one that would benefit from in-depth review and discussion with faculty from other institutions should consider participating. You will submit your assignment in advance, and read others’ assignments ahead of the workshop. If you are interested, please email AHA Program Associate Megan Connor at tuning@historians.org for more details or visit the event page.

Reception for Two-Year Faculty
Friday, January 4, 2019: 7:30 PM-8:30 PM
Boulevard B (Hilton Chicago, Second Floor)

The AHA cordially invites faculty teaching at two-year and community colleges to a reception and informal conversation with colleagues.

K-12 Educators’ Workshop: History in Your Backyard: Remembrance and Commemoration
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Joliet Room (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)

Organized with the Library of Congress. What is the relationship between remembrance and commemoration? What roles do monuments and memorials in our communities play in both reflecting our collective past and allowing us to engage with it? This interactive workshop will begin with a keynote by Adam Rothman, Georgetown University, on research he is conducting at the Library of Congress (LOC) as a Kluge Fellow. This will be followed by a primary source analysis workshop conducted by Rothman and Lee Ann Potter and Kaleena Black of the Library’s new Center for Learning, Literacy, and Engagement, drawing on documents in a variety of media from the collections of the Library.  No charge; because space is limited, free advance registration is required.

Teaching and Learning Networking Opportunity
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:45 PM-4:45 PM
PDR 4 (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)

This is just an hour, a space, and an open invitation. We’re hoping that this event will help those who are interested in teaching and learning to find each other, build strong professional networks, and advance the cause of teaching and learning issues among the larger community of historians.

K-12 Reception
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 6:30 PM-7:30 PM
Boulevard B (Hilton Chicago, Second Floor)

The AHA cordially invites K-12 educators to a reception to network with colleagues and share ideas with members of the Teaching Division and AHA staff.

Tour 6: Schools as Urban History: Exploring Chicago’s Educational Landscape
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
8th Street Registration Desk (Hilton Chicago)

Tour leader: Ruby Oram, Loyola University Chicago; Nick Kryczka, University of Chicago; and Ann Durkin-Keating, North Central College

Chicago’s public high schools are monuments to evolving ideas about the proper form and function of urban education. This tour of three public high schools on Chicago’s west side will explore what the history of urban education and school architecture tell us about Chicago’s changing neighborhoods, exploring how urban, social, and educational history can be read in the built environment. Chicago Public School teachers may attend this tour free of charge. Email annualmeeting@historians.org for more information.

Sessions

Introductory Courses 

Bridging the Gap: Best Pedagogical Practices for Promoting Historical Thinking Skills in AP Courses and College Introductory Courses
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Meeting the Challenges of the Two-Year Faculty Classroom, Part 2: Making the Survey Course Engaging
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Repositioning History in the Undergraduate Curriculum with NEH Support
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Infusing the History Survey with New and Innovative Scholarship: A Discussion
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Making Sense of Dual Credit in History: A Roundtable Discussion
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Graduate Pedagogy

The Many Careers in K-12: What Working in K-12 Education Really Looks Like
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

How Do We Fix the Advising Model for Humanities PhD Students?
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Careers in Community Colleges: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Preparing for the Professoriate: A Conversation on How to Realign Graduate Education with Careers in the Professoriate
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Innovations in Doctoral Education: Building Strong Partnerships between Programs and University Leadership
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Rethinking Resources & Pedagogy

What Are We Learning? Innovative Assessments and Student Learning in College-Level History Classes
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Open Educational Resources for History
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Building Queer-Inclusive Curriculum and Student Life beyond the R1
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

“Why Do I Have to Study This?” Making History Relevant through Service Learning
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Meeting the Challenges of the Two-Year Faculty Classroom, Part 1: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Classroom
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Creating Connections: Historical Scholarship and the K-12 Classroom
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

The State of Tuning around the Globe: A Roundtable Discussion
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Accreditation, Student Learning, and Outcomes Assessment: What Does It Mean for Faculty?
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Tuning at Ten: Lessons We’ve Learned in the AHA
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Reading, Writing, History: Students’ Literacy and the History Classroom
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Digital Humanities in the Classroom

Issues of Access: The Promise and Structural Challenges of Digital Humanities for Scholars of East Asia
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

DH in 3D: Multidimensional Research and Education in the Digital Humanities
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Digital Pedagogy in and out of the Classroom: Lightning Round
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

How Online Teaching Can Enrich Research, Improve Teaching, and Increase Enrollments: The University of California Experience
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

History of Education

Challenging Geographies and Chronologies of the Global 1960s: Student Activism and Educational Revolts in Chile, Ethiopia, and the United States
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Who Speaks on Campus? African Americans and American Higher Education in the 20th Century
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Strangers in a Strange Land: Migration, Education, and Tradition in Germany and Britain since World War II
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Manufacturing Loyalties from Mao to Now: Education and Conflicting Duties in China’s 20th Century and Beyond, 1938–2018
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

In the Universities and on the Streets: LGBTQ History, Queer Studies, Social Movement Histories
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Can Loyalty Be Taught? Curricula and Politics across the 20th-Century Colonial World
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

The Student as Citizen: Loyalties, Disloyalties, and the Politics of Education
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

#RedForEd and Chicago: Historicizing Recent Teacher Strikes
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

World History

Teaching World History through Cities: What Architectural History Can Contribute to Reimagining World History
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

The American Revolution in World History: A Teaching Roundtable
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

On the Value of World History as a General Education Requirement
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Teaching Changing Loyalties and Histories: The Queens Immigration Project
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

New Approaches to World History Pedagogy: Teaching Non-textual Literacy with Non-traditional Media
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Experiential Learning in World History Pedagogy
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Other Topical Sessions

Three Enduring Problems for History Teachers (And How to Manage Them) 
International Society for the Scholarshop of Teaching and Learning
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Teaching with the History and Policy Education Program
National History Center of the American Historical Association
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

History Advising and AHA Tuning
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

History Advising and AHA Tuning
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

The Scorn of the President (and the Present): Teaching and Writing Politicized Histories in the Age of Trump
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Teaching a Diverse Medieval Europe: Undergraduate Pedagogy
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Teaching US History in the Age of Trump: An International Perspective
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Across the K-16 Continuum: Collaborative Conversations and Possibilities for History Education
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Teaching the Environmental History of the Colonial Americas: Challenges, Prospects, and Future Directions
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM