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Buckeye Council for History Education
We’re nuts about History!
Announcing the 2010 BCHE Annual Conference and Teacher Resource Fair
Diplomacy and Dialogue in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences
Friday, July 23, 2010
Holiday Inn, Worthington, Ohio
This year’s conference will focus on the 2011 National History Day Theme, Diplomacy and Dialogue. Join us and learn fascinating history content from our presenters as well as practical classroom applications from teachers around the state.
Are you interested in presenting at this year’s conference? Please complete the proposal form and return to Tutti Jackson by May 1 (contact information is available on the form).
Please note we have changed the format for this year’s conference. Both the conference and the teacher resource fair will be held on the same day. Conference attendees will have time during the conference to visit a variety of vendors, non-profit organizations, and history education providers.
If you are a BCHE member the Annual Conference is FREE! Not a member yet? To purchase a membership online, click here
Buckeye Council for History Education Membership
Please join the Buckeye Council for History Education (BCHE), the Ohio affiliate of the National Council for History Education!
BCHE supports quality history education and encourages communication between those who teach history in the schools and those who promote history in the community and academia. BCHE provides a communications network for and works in conjunction with all advocates of history education. BCHE provides services, meetings, and activities for Ohio ’s history educators.
Membership Benefits include:
· free registration at our annual conference
· free attendance at regional teacher resource fairs
· history book club participation
· newsletter
To purchase a membership online, click here
Local History Teacher Award Winner Announced
The Buckeye Council for History Education, in association with the Ohio Council for the Social Studies and the Ohio Historical Society, is pleased to announce that Angel King is the first recipient of the BCHE/OCSS Local History Teacher Award. This award recognizes the importance of state and local history education in the lives of students and communities.
Angel has done outstanding work in the teaching of local and state history. She has gained the respect of her peers in the Sciotoville Community School for her ability to engage her students in the history of their town, their state, and their country. Angel’s commitment to learning and teaching is evident in her active participation in professional development activities. Angel is currently participating in her fourth year of the Think History Teaching American History project. In addition, she is a Civil War Preservation Trust member, a Belfer Scholar, and past participant in the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and a Gilder-Lehrman Summer Institute. |
