Professional Development Workshop

66 Church Green,Taunton MA 02780

28 June, 2022

Description

Earn 12 PDPs in Social Studies and History as you create lessons that bring local history into your classroom! Themes: Day 1, June 28: The Taunton River Day 2, June 29: New England Slavery Day 3, June 30: Immigration in SE Mass Day 4, July 1: World War II Each day will include opportunities to work on creating lesson plans and activities based on primary sources from the Museum's collection related to the day’s theme for use in their classrooms. Meet the facilitators! Dr. William Hanna is the author of A History of Taunton, Massachusetts (2007). He was a teacher in the Taunton public schools for 37 years and has served as Social Studies curriculum supervisor at Taunton High School. He is now a visiting lecturer in the History Department at Bridgewater State University. Saria Sweeney is the Community Programming Coordinator at the Old Colony History Museum. The history of the original Old Colony is one that reaches from Rehoboth to Provincetown, and from Scituate to Dartmouth. It’s as distant as 1639 and as relevant as a moment ago. It is a history that plays like a page-turner, replete with epic battles, brash entrepreneurs, new-for-the-time technologies – and the stuff of everyday life. Things that happened in the Old Colony made the region what it is today and frequently influenced events worldwide. At the Old Colony History Museum, we’re proud to be the keeper of this history. It is our ongoing mission to be able to bring it to life for the region’s families and children as well as historians of every age. Open year-round, we curate exhibits and offer guided tours, lectures, workshops, field trips and special presentations for school groups. We invite you to join us, to personally experience our collective past in a way unique to our region.