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Artist Residencies and Community Engagement
Visiting artist residencies at the Clarice Smith Center provide the campus and community with a multitude of opportunities to interact with professional artists, to gain insight into the artistic process, and to explore particular artists’ work in depth. Residency activities take many forms, including workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations, informal gatherings, and other special activities. These activities are held both on campus and in local middle and high schools and community centers. Visiting artist residencies are designed in collaboration with campus and community partners and the artists themselves, with the overarching goal of increasing participation in the arts.
Community Connections/Partners:
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
UMD Democracy Collaborative
UMD First Year Book Program
UMD College Park Scholars
UMD Driskell Center
UMD Various colleges and departments
PGCPS Suitland High School for the Visual and Performing Arts
PGCPS Northwestern High School
PGCPS Hyattsville Middle School
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Joe’s Movement Emporium/World Arts Focus
Latin American Folk Institute
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Campus Contact:
Ruth Waalkes, Director, Cultural Participation
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
301-405-0312
rwaalkes@umd.edu
Website:
www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu
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East
Asia: Themes and Strategies for Effective Teaching
East
Asia: Themes and Strategies for Effective Teaching, a semester-long
seminar on the history of East Asia for secondary school teachers in
Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area, provides a broad overview
of the history and cultures of China,
Japan, and Korea. The purpose is to familiarize history teachers
with the major concepts and trends in East Asian history through
ten three-hour sessions held on campus. The seminar emerged from
collaboration between Montgomery County history teacher Sharon
Cohen and University of Maryland professor James Gao.
Community
Connections/Partners:
University of Maryland Department of History
University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Program
National Consortium for Teaching About Asia
Middle and high-school teachers and students in Maryland and the
Washington, D.C., area
Campus
Contact:
Gretchen I. Jones, Assistant Professor
Japanese
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
301-405-3745
gjones@umd.edu
Off-Campus
Contacts:
Sharon Cohen
301-571-6940
Sharon_c_cohen@fc.mcps.k12.md.us
Website:
www.arhu.umd.edu/outreach/index.html
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
In the fall of 2002, the University of Maryland began a collaborative project with the Gilder Lehrman Institute, a nonprofit foundation encouraging the study of American history. Since then, three high schools in Maryland have established Gilder Lehrman American History Academies within their schools, and the students and faculty involved in these Academies have had the opportunity to work with University of Maryland undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members. Students enrolled in Gilder Lehrman American History Academies take an elective in-depth American history class each year of high school.
During the 2005-06 academic year, the program plans to expand by bringing a group of students from each high school to the College Park campus for a series of lectures. The six lectures will be delivered by Maryland History professors and will be followed by discussion sections led by graduate students in the Department of History. This format is designed to give high school students an appreciation of what college-level history classes entail. In addition, two professional development sessions for faculty members at high schools with Gilder Lehrman Academies will also be conducted by History Department professors on campus. These initiatives will supplement the ongoing relationship between the high schools, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and the University of Maryland.
Community Connections/Partners:
University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities
Department of History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Campus
Contact:
Gary Gerstl
Department of History
301-405-8739
gerstleg@umd.edu
Jeremy Sullivan
Department of History
jsyeoman@yahoo.com
Website:
www.gilderlehrman.org
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Latin
Teacher Pedagogy Program
The
Latin Teacher Pedagogy Program seeks to familiarize Latin teachers
and students with some of the major issues in teaching Latin at
all levels, but especially K-12. The program
addresses different ways for teachers to acquaint parents, teachers, school administrators, and trustees
or school board members--many of whom have not studied Latin with
the benefits and challenges of Latin study.
The program seeks to provide the support and instruction needed by high school Latin teachers so that they can meet the certification standards being set by the No Child Left Behind legislation.
The
program, organized in conjunction with the course Latin Pedagogy
(Latin 640), comprises several workshops for K-12 teachers, five
of which are offered as part of Latin 640, while the others are given independently.
Four of the five workshops offered as part of Latin 640 carry
CEU credit. The workshops routinely draw participants---both attendees
and especially presenters---from across the country.
Community
Connections/Partners:
Academy of the Holy Cross, Kensington, Maryland
Arlington, Virginia, public schools
Dulaney High School, Timonium, Maryland
James Madison High School, Fairfax County, Virginia
Oakcrest School, McLean, Virginia
Oxford, Pennsylvania, Regional High School
Prince George's County Public Schools
Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
St. John's Literary Institution at Prospect Hall, Frederick, Maryland
Tabor Academy, Marion, Massachusetts
Ward Melville High School, Setauket, New York
Westlake High School, Waldorf, Maryland
White Station High School, Memphis, Tennessee
York Regional High School, Pennsylvania
Campus
Contact:
Hugh Lee, Chair
Department of Classics
301-405-2023
hlee@deans.umd.edu
Website:
www.arhu.umd.edu/outreach/index.html
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Seminars
for Teacher
Seminars
for Teachers represents
both a new vision of professional
development and a vital collaboration
between college and university faculty
and public and private school teachers.
Through this program, K-12 teachers
reconnect to the world of scholarship
through small seminars led by leading
professors in the humanities, social
sciences, and sciences. The one,
two or three-daylong seminars are
held on campus away from the day-to-day
responsibilities of school.
Community
Connections/Partners:
College of Arts and Humanities
Office of the Provost, University of Maryland
Public
School Districts:
District
of Columbia Public Schools
Montgomery County Public Schools
Prince George's County Public Schools
Private
Schools:
Dematha
Catholic High School
Mount
Saint Joseph High School
Our
Lady of Good Counsel
Campus
Contact:
Adele Seeff, Program Director
Maryland Seminars for Teachers
Director,
Center for Renaissance and Baroque
Studies
301-405-6830
aseeff@umd.edu
Cerue Diggs, Program Assistant
Maryland
Seminars for Teachers
301-405-7505
diggs@umd.edu
Website:
www.arhu.umd.edu/outreach/tas/
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