Teacher Resources
The NHD program provides teachers with resource materials, workshops, and other opportunities for professional development.
Benefits for Teachers
National History Day: - gives teachers a model teaching tool for the classroom, based on active learning
- helps teachers meet the requirements of national and state history standards
- provides an excellent assessment tool for classroom use
- helps teachers integrate the study of history with other disciplines, including writing, the arts, and other social sciences
- supplies curricular aids such as lesson plans and bibliographic guides
- supports professional development by offering workshops and summer institutes where teachers can learn about the latest in historical scholarship and new teaching methods and techniques
- encourages teachers to interact with academic historians, librarians, archivists, and public historians
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Fall Teacher Workshops
October 8, 2009 - What is NHD? and Beginning Research at The Mudd Library, Princeton University
October 13, 2009 - What is NHD? and Beginning Research at Rutgers Special Collection Library, New Brunswick
To register, please e-mail
Don't Forget ALL Teacher Workshops are Free! |
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Doing History Conference: For Students and Teachers – October 30th 8:30am – 2:45pm!
We are doing it again! Make sure to save the date for this innovative one day conference for students (and teachers). Save the date of October 30th. Doing History Conference will take place at William Paterson University and will have a speaker to introduce the annual theme, workshops for students just starting in National History Day and for students who have participated for a few years, a student and judges panel and a special workshop for teachers. |
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