Initiative Offers National Seminars

The national seminar on "Stories Around the World in Film," May 2006. (Left to right: National Fellows Lynn W. Marsico, Pittsburgh; Clary W. Carleton, Richmond; Beverly Rice-Hooper, Atlanta; seminar leader Dudley Andrew; National Fellows Maria Cardalliaguet Gómez-Málaga, New Haven; Eric D. Whiteside, Charlotte; and Bonnee L. Breese, Philadelphia.)

In 2007 the Initiative is offering seven national seminars at Yale for leading teachers from League Institutes and from selected cities that are planning or considering the establishment of a Teachers Institute.

National seminars have the twin purposes of providing teachers firsthand experience with the Institute approach, while affording them an opportunity to increase their preparation in the subjects they teach and to develop a curriculum unit to teach what they have learned to their own students and to share with other teachers. Each teacher selected as a Yale National Fellow participates in one of the national seminars.

National Fellows must already be, or must be committed to become, leaders in a local Teachers Institute. Teachers selected as Yale National Fellows participate in an Organizational Session of the seminars on May 4-5, in daily seminar meetings held during the Intensive Session at Yale on July 2-13, and in the Annual Conference on October 26-27.

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