Knowledgeable, enthusiastic teachers are a wise investment in Oklahoma’s youth. OHC'S summer institutes increase the confidence, professionalism, and subject knowledge of K-12 educators. Institutes provide content-rich, professional development centered on specific humanities themes.
Participants have the opportunity to network with peers and engage with distinguished university professors and other humanities professionals in an intensive exploration of curriculum-relevant topics. When teachers implement their innovative learning experiences in the classroom, students benefit for years to come.
For general information on hosting a teacher institute contact:
David Pettyjohn • Assistant Director
2010 Teacher Institutes
Contact universities directly for detailed information.
Teaching Civic Engagement and the Politics of Democracy: Environmental History, Land and Energy Stewardship, and Community in Oklahoma
Selman Living Laboratory (SLL) near Freedom, Oklahoma
Sponsor: University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond
July 26-30
Contact: John Wood
Phone: 405/733-7922
E-mail: jwood@rose.edu
Offering an interdisciplinary approach to humanities content, six UCO faculty and one faculty member from Rose State College will invite fifteen teachers to come together for a four-day teacher institute to discuss, reflect, and implement in lesson plans the importance of placing civic skills and service-learning at the center of K-12 education in Oklahoma. By addressing an environmental issue through the teacher institute, UCO will provide an environmental case study, a service learning toolkit, and lesson plans that teachers can use to implement similar projects in their classrooms and help facilitate student-identified environmental issues in their own communities. UCO believes it is important to serve and support K-12 teachers as they incorporate service learning—a form of civic engagement—into the existing curriculum using local environmental issues in Oklahoma.
Living the Past: Connecting the Western Tradition to Contemporary Experience
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond
July 12-15
Contact: Mary Brodnax
Phone: 405/974-5630
E-mail: mbrodnax@uco.edu
This institute offers high school and middle school instructors teaching arts, language arts, foreign language, humanities, history, or social studies classes an opportunity to address PASS skills from an interdisciplinary perspective while exploring the grand idea that the ideas and values of the past play an essential role in shaping our contemporary experience of the life well lived and in shaping productive communities. Using literature, history, art, architecture, film, and philosophy, participants will link the values and ideas underpinning western culture to their contemporary experience in Oklahoma.