Social Studies

Professional Development

• Goethe Institute Study Tour of Germany
  The Transatlantic Outreach Program, at the Goethe Institute, has sought to find the best and most qualified Social Studies educators and give them the opportunity to experience Modern Germany in the most dramatic way possible: in person. These all-expense-paid study tours are two weeks in length and take place during the summer.
   
• The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators
  The Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites middle- and high-school educators with less than five years of experience teaching about the Holocaust to apply to attend this conference in Washington D.C. (All expenses paid!)
   
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellowship Program
  Each year up to 15 educators in grades 7 through 12 and community college faculty are designated as new Museum Teacher Fellows. Teacher Fellows participate in a five-day, all-expense paid summer institute at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
   
• George Washington Teachers’ Institute
  The George Washington Teachers' Institute is a highly competitive program which brings teachers to Mount Vernon, Virginia for an intensive week of study at Washington's home. All teachers accepted into the Institute will receive a travel stipend of up to $350 and reside on the grounds of Washington's home.
   
• National Archives & Records Administration
  Each summer NARA offers "Primarily Teaching," a workshop introducing K-16 educators to archival research and techniques for using documents in the classroom. These workshops are offered at the Washington D.C. location, as well as NARA regional locations.
   
• Colonial Williamsburg
  Designed for elementary and middle/high school social studies teachers who teach United States history and government, these intensive week-long workshops will immerse participants in early American history "on location" in Williamsburg, the restored capital city of eighteenth-century Virginia, and nearby Jamestown and Yorktown.