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The Grant Wood History Institute (GWHI) is a federally funded professional development initiative serving more than 60 history teachers from various public school districts in the Grant Wood Area Education Association of east central Iowa. Funded by a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grant, the program expands the Bringing History Home K-5 project into middle and high school classrooms. In research-based activities led by a team of History and Social Studies Education faculty from the University of Iowa in Iowa City and Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois GWHI participants share and enhance their command of historical narratives and inquiry teaching strategies.
The GWHI website provides some of the guides and materials presented during our professional development events, lesson plans designed by GWHI teacher participants, and a calendar of Institute activities. In the Bringing History Home General Resources view you will find links to a number of history source databases and reproducible resources for the classroom, such as student primary source guides. Please contact our webmaster or the GWHI director, Elise Fillpot, with comments on or suggestions for the site.
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Invitation
If you are a middle or high school teacher in a Grant Wood AEA public school district, we welcome you to join the new 2008-09 Grant Wood History Institute cohort. Programming for this cohort begins in May 2008 and continues until June 2009. Please see the Teacher Information and Application forms for more details and for instructions on how to apply for participation.
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