Secondary Education: Additional Information
National Resource Guide to American Studies in the Secondary School
This site provides guidance and support for teachers facing the challenge of integrating the interdisciplinarity of American Studies into a high school curriculum. It includes a listing of model programs and a directory of American Studies programs in secondary schools.
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/teachingandlearning/k16/secondary_education_highroads.cfm
A Friend of Their Minds: Capitalizing on the Oral Tradition of My African American Students (2003)
Yvonne Divans Hutchinson builds on the oral traditions of her students African-American and Latino cultures and seeks to support the development of their literacy skills through high standards, explicit expectations, and rigorous literature experiences. Her online "class anatomy"—a documentation and analysis of one instructional period—juxtaposes video clips with commentary and samples of classroom documents.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/yhutchinson/
Human Agency, Social Action and Classroom Practices: What happens when teachers move over to allow students to pave their own path towards enacting change? (2003)
Vanessa Brown's work focuses on the students and classroom practices of her ninth grade English/Language Arts classes. It grew out of the tensions that arose when her beliefs about the juxtaposition of social action and classroom practices collided with the realities of socio-economic status, personal agency, social and emotional stability and student choice and voice.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/vbrown/
Culturally Engaged Instruction (CEI): Putting theory into practice (2003)
As an English teacher at a rural all-Black high school in the Mississippi Delta, Renee Moore enjoyed a genuine fellowship with her students but when she started to teach grammar, her students seemed to "hit a brick wall." She immediately started searching for and experimenting with more effective grammar instructional methodologies, and she began what would become a career long action-research study on the issues surrounding the teaching of standard American English to African American students.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/rmoore/
Constructing Urban High School Students as Achievers (2003)
This website describes Joan Cone's teaching journey to address challenges of diversity, inequity, and achievement in her High School English classroom.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/jcone/
Creating space for diverse perspectives and student learning (2001)
This website is an "illustrated case" of the teaching of a high school English class on the literature of social vision and social change. The website offers video clips of classroom activities, teacher reflections, and examples of student work.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/dwaff/
Overview of a Course on Current Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and School Improvement (2001)
This website was designed as an archive of course materials and reflections to serve as a foundation for the development of future versions of this and other courses. The course syllabus serves as the organizing structure of the site; it provides access to weekly reflections, class overheads and notes, and student work.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/hatch/
Creating a Community of Learners: Lessons from a High School Journalism Program (2000)
This site provides an example and illustration of a learning community in a high school journalism class. The site describes the key components of learning communities, their manifestation in this classroom, videos of classroom interactions, and a related bibliography.
http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/kaustin/
American Studies Today Online (UK), ‘Text and Context,’ by Judie Newman and Douglas Tallack
This essay examines the possibilities for integrating American Studies themes into the English A-level course in British high-schools.
http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/context.htm
History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Syllabus Central
This feature provides annotated syllabi that offer creative approaches to teaching, with particular emphasis on innovative ways of organizing the U.S. Survey and integrating technology. Teachers reflect on how a social history approach, active learning techniques, and Web-based resources and new media have impacted their teaching and their students.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/syllabus/