Professional Development 

Recent Professional Development Workshops

The site periodically presents workshop opportunities for teachers that may be used for professional development. Recent Examples include:

• August 2008. "Coins in the Classroom," a two day workshop presented by the American Numismatic Association. Teachers earned 15 hours of professional development credit.
  
• April 2009. “Teachers' Guide to the Film,” a two hour workshop demonstrating how to use newly developed lesson plans to teach about Lincoln, the Civil War and grief, through Paul Sanderson’s new documentary of Saint-Gaudens and teachers’ guide. Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site offered this workshop in collaboration with New Hampshire Public Television. A group of teachers participated on-site in the Little Studio, sitting below Saint-Gaudens’ Diana, while other teachers from the Durham area participated via video conferencing. Participants earned two hours of teacher development training.

Current Professional Development

Educational Partnership Project 2009-2010

Saint-Gaudens received project funding that will bring a group of area teachers to our site to develop site-specific curriculum that will relate to and expand teacher’s already existing study units with multidisciplinary place based learning.

The grant includes a teacher’s stipend for approximately 23 hours of work, bus money for two classes (from that teacher’s grade level) to visit the site, money towards substitute teacher’s pay (if additional teachers from other disciplines are involved in the field trip day) and additional money for teachers to buy resources for the curriculum they will write. The project focuses on grades 3-8.

• Benefit to Teachers and Schools
• Supplemental pay for teacher’s time
• Exciting cultural landscape based lesson plans to expand teachers’ existing curriculum
• Additional lesson plans from other participating teachers
• A field trip for up to 100 students, expenses paid (one participating teacher, at two different grade levels within a school)
• 23 hours of professional development credit
• Building a relationship with a National Park and Historic Site, that will help nurture students’ love of the outdoors, art and history.

Professional Development Newsletter

If you are interested in future professional development events at Saint-Gaudens, let us know with an email, and we will keep you informed. Include your name, school, grades and subjects you teach. 

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