Event Details

End: October 29, 2016
Contact: sshurts@bergen.edu
More Info: http://bergen.edu/history/conference/

The Northeast Regional Conference for History Educators will be held October 29, 2016, from 9am to 1pm. The conference is sponsored by the AHA, NILOA, and NJCCC and is hosted by Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands, 1280 Wall St. West, Lyndhurst, NJ. There is no registration cost, but participants must register before October 15 on the conference website http://bergen.edu/history/conference/ .

The central feature of the conference will be the Assignment Charrette. The Assignment Charrette is workshop that has been run with great success at the 2016 AHA annual meeting and will be offered again in 2017. The charrette requires participants to provide, in advance of the workshop, an assignment that they have given or plan to give their students. The assignment could be anything from a small daily group activity to a larger research paper. In small groups, the participants then share their assignments with their colleagues and, using a series of prompts and questions, collaborate with them on ways to improve student learning outcomes from the assignment. This collaborative reflection on our assignments allows us to discuss what we want students to learn from the study of history and how our instruction and assignments can be altered to better achieve that outcome.