Participant's Guide to the
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute
2012

During the Institute

The Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute will improve your ability to teach U.S. History. We want you to get all you can out of your experience while you are here. Sessions with a peer facilitator will help you focus on ways to actively apply the content in the classroom. Daily evaluations help us focus and improve the Institute.

Here are just a few comments from teachers who attended the 2011 Teacher Institute:

I have been teaching many, many years and this has been the best program I have ever attended (you could combine all of the others and this would still be the best) for information, class activities, materials, food, housing, and presenters.

[The Teacher Institute has] been a whirlwind of learning, idea formation, reflection and fun . . . jam packed with activities and knowledge I can take back to my classroom and make history come alive by challenging my students to assume the role of historians. They will be active participants as they construct several activities and [the] teaching strategies can be integrated into other curriculum subjects.

The organization and caliber of this program is astounding! Every activity gives me new ideas, opens new pathways to teaching, and inspires varied approaches to assessment of student learning. Each presenter/interpreter has presented inspiring lessons.

There were so many great hands-on experiences that I can use in my classroom and I am so excited to teach my kids and I know they will love the rope making, the pictures, the stories, and my ideas that I have been writing in my notebook. I believe my teaching will change dramatically.

Schedules | Lodging and Dining | Materials | Application Sessions  
Evaluations | Final Project