9/11
RESOURCES - One Year Later:
1. On September 4th, Teachers
College Columbia University will launch a website with resources for
teachers who are seeking ways to bring a more global approach to their
teaching.
Columbia University's Teachers
College prides itself on providing ideas and tools to support teachers
as they look for ways to incorporate broaderviews of the world in their
classrooms. The events of September 11brought the need for greater
world awareness to the forefront of education
discourse. In January
2002, Teachers College hosted the Teach In, a forumallowing curriculum
and diversity experts to collaborate with educators about this pressing
issue as it relates to classroom practice.
During September 2002,
as a follow-up to the Teach-In, Teachers Collegewill present a website
and online forum. The website will be launchedSeptember 4th and will
include lesson plans, video presentations and other materials from leaders
in curriculum development and diversity issues,
including faculty from
New York City public schools and Teachers College. Beginning September
9th, visitors to the site will have the opportunity toreflect on and share
their experiences and ideas with others in aweb-mediated discussion forum.
Teachers College invites all interested educators to visit http://dlp.tc.columbia.edu/teachin
starting September 4th.
2. Cable in the Classroom
Online
One year later, September
11th still affects our daily lives. Several Cable in the Classroom programs
offer perspective on the terrorist attacks and their impact on events worldwide
to help students understand what happened that day and how things have
changed since. For a copy of a
programming roundup with
live links to complete program descriptions as well as support materials,
visit http://www.ciconline.org/document.cfm/5/50/null/1334.
3. History Channel Classroom
Special Presentation: Relics
from the Rubble, This one-hour documentary chronicles the unprecedented
effort to rescue, preserve and archive artifacts from the World Trade Center
and the attacksof September 11. Airs on Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 10pm on the
History Channel. Teacher's guide
available at http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/guides/.
4. The Families and Work
Institute (FWI) has developed 16 web-based lessons commemorating the
events of Sept. 11, 2001. Curricula topics cover safety and fear,
interaction with others, empathy skills, heroes, reflective processing
and resiliency, diversity and compassion, values, social and
civic action, understanding
current events and media awareness, and history and international studies.
Materials include a reading list for students and adults, web-based student
writing exercises, and other online resources. To access any of these
lessons, visit http://www.familiesandwork.org
5. September 11, 2001 was
a defining moment in American history. As we begin a new school year, teachers
at every level are grappling with the challenge of helping their students
to confront, and make sense of, the horrific events of that day. In accordance
with its mission to contribute to the interdisciplinary study of contemporary
issues, The Clarke Center is pleased to sponsor the "Teaching 9-11" web
site. The site provides hundreds of useful links for teachers. The listing
of resources, sample lesson plans, syllabi and modules should be especially
helpful. Ideally,
the site will grow exponentially
as a result of feedback from visitors to our site. In the end, as always,
it will be up to each teacher to work with this raw material in ways that
serve his or her students.
Douglas Stuart
Director, The Clarke Center
Dickinson College
http://www.teaching9-11.org