Professional Development

Professional Development

Outside the Box

®JMurchison 2011

Why do we travel?

• Vacation• Visit family• Business trip• Travel with students

• What’s missing?

…Professional Development• Have you considered traveling as a way

to earn PD credit?

Why?• PD sessions provide teachers the chance

to grow professionally.

• Any traveling we do expands our students' perspectives of the world when we incorporate our adventures into our lessons.

Now What?• Application• Specific grade levels• Deadlines• References• Cost• Packing• Projects/Lesson Plans

Opportunities• Fulbright-Hays• NEH

– Workshops– Seminars/Institutes

• National Parks Service

• NOAA• PolarTREC

• Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute

• Iditarod• National

Consortium for Teaching about Asia

• Crow Canyon• Goethe-Institute TOP• Library of Congress

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html

http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html

http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html

http://www.nps.gov/wupa/parks-participating-in-the-trt-program.htm


http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/

http://www.polartrec.com/

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchsti.cfm


http://www.iditarod.com/

http://nctasia.org/

http://nctasia.org/

http://nctasia.org/

http://nctasia.org/

http://www.crowcanyon.org/education/education.asp

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/top/enindex.htm

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/

Opportunities• Summer Fellowship i

n Korean Studies• Teaching American

History Fellowships• Keizai Koho Center• Toyota International

Teacher Program• Heifer International

• NASA• IREX• Yale PIER Program• British Universities S

ummer Program• American Council fo

r International Education

http://www.koreasociety.org/korean_studies/fellowships/


http://teachingamericanhistory.org/institutes/


http://www.us-japan.org/programs/kkc/k2011/index.html




http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Toyota-International-Teacher-Program


http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.201457/

http://www.spacecamp.com/educators/

http://www.irex.org/application/short-term-travel-grants-stg-application

http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/institutes.htm

http://www.esuus.org/programs_British_Universities_Summer_Program.htm

http://www.esuus.org/programs_British_Universities_Summer_Program.htm

http://www.americancouncils.org/educationalSeminars.php



Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Visit…

Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad…• Flagship international exchange program• Designed to increase mutual understanding between the

U.S. and other countries• Administered by the U.S. Department of Education • 4-6 week trips for 16 teachers in each of six or seven

sessions• 4 trips maximum• Congress appropriates money with small contribution by

teacher

Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad

Application Components…• Curriculum Vitae• Discuss your interest in and experience with interacting

with other cultures• Discuss why you require greater knowledge of the host

countries• Discuss your plan to implement the required curriculum

project

NEH: Workshops• National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent

grant-making agency for the Federal Government.• Offers Landmarks of American History and Culture

Workshops for K-12 teachers, librarians, homeschool parents

• One-week programs provide direct experiences in interpretation of significant historical and cultural sites

• Stipends are $1200 to help cover living expenses, books, and travel

http://www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-school.html

NEH Application• Professional background• Interest in the workshop topic• Special skills, experiences, or perspectives that will

contribute to the workshop• Enhances your teaching by…• Online application coversheet along with all the necessary

information

NEH: Duke Ellington and the Development of American Popular Culture

http://faculty.fairfield.edu/lnash/music/NEH_Ellington.html

NEH: The Richest Hills: Mining in the Far West, 1865-1920

http://www.archiva.net/richesthills/index.html

NEH: Inventing America: Lowell and the Industrial Revolution

http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH/

NEH: Summer Seminars and Institutes• National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent

grant-making agency for the Federal Government.• Enables K-12 teachers to explore a topic or set of readings

with an expert scholar• Programs range from 2-6 weeks• Stipends range from $2100 to $4500 to help cover living

expenses, books, and travel • Apply for two but can only participate in ONE

http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html

http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH/

NEH: Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad

http://www.colgate.edu/academics/centersandinstitutes/abolitionismundergroundrailroad

NEH: Jazz, Motown, and the Transformation of American Culture, 1959-1975

http://cenhum.artsci.wustl.edu/

NEH: Mozart’s Worlds: Bridging West and East

http://campus.udayton.edu/~nehinstitute2011/

Teacher-Ranger-Teacher


NOAA: Teacher at Sea

http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/

EarthWatch Institute

http://www.earthwatch.org/aboutus/education/edopp

Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute


Polar TREC

http://www.polartrec.com/

National Consortium for Teaching about Asia

http://nctasia.org/

UTC – East Asia Program

http://www.utc.edu/Research/AsiaProgram/index.php

Goethe-Institut

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/top/enindex.htm

Teaching American History Fellowships


Korea Studies Program


Toyota International Teacher Program


Consider a professional development opportunity that’s outside the box…

…it will change your life forever.


Links to the Professional Development opportunities in this PowerPoint can be found at:

http://jmurchison.pbworks.com/w/page/5632279/FrontPage

http://jmurchison.pbworks.com/w/page/5632279/FrontPage

Professional Development

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summer seminars

industrial revolution

underground railroad

teacherfulbrighthays

week trips

pd credit

landmarks of american

institutesnational endowment