Integrating Teacher Professional Development with Archaeological Summer Camps

Summary

The sheer joy of being a kid at an archaeological summer camp is not lost on adults. In fact, by involving teachers in summer camp and other investigations, in a "kid" role, allows them to experience the wonder of hands-on discovery. Add in some additional professional development and you create empowered teachers who infuses their lesson plans with engagement, rich content, authenticity, and relevancy.  In recent years the PAST summer field teams introduced this new type of teacher professional development with impressive results.  This paper examines the shift in educational outreach as a method of accelerating instructional strategy transitions toward problem-based learning and the impact of this approach in the study of maritime history, archaeology, and cultural resource stewardship.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Interpretation and Presentation of Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Sites: Evolving Horizons   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2018

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PaperId(s): 862