Teaching Teachers: The AITC/Montpelier Teacher Program

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology in the Community:15 Years of Archaeology Service", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 2016, Archaeology in the Community and The Montpelier Archaeology Department established a partnership to host a week-long teacher education program. The program was designed to bring 15 teachers to Montpelier to participate in active archaeological research through the Montpelier Archaeology Expedition Program, while spending afternoons working with AITC on how to translate their experience in the field into classroom activities. Aside from the pandemic year, the program ran every year from 2016 until 2023, educating over 75 teachers. More importantly, those teachers have gone on to use these experiences to provide educational experiences with their students and colleagues. This paper will discuss the successes and challenges of building and implementing the program, and how this unique partnership has helped both organizations advance their institutional missions.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025   •
• Archaeology in the Community:15 Years of Archaeology Service

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Individual & Institutional Roles

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