Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives: a cultural tour for K-12 teachers
August 2-6, 2010
The Chippewa Valley Museum is excited to announce another great opportunity for Wisconsin teachers this summer!
Join the liveliest professional development opportunity for teachers available in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture tours take teachers where they often can’t go on their own — behind the doors and into the back rooms of fascinating cultural communities across the state. The tours model how to identify local culture and incorporate it into curriculum in your own class.
This summer, the focus will be on north-central Wisconsin, that land of woods, rivers and lakes, “Up North” cabins and supper clubs, dairy farms, small cities, and communities of Native Americans, descendents of European settlers, Latino farm workers, and refugees from places like Somalia and Laos. The tour will explore the old and the new in the cultural lives of the people and places in the heart of the state.
Graduate credits will be available.
For all the tour details and to register, go to http://csumc.wisc.edu/WTLC. For other questions, contact Liz Fisher, Community Programs Manager, Chippewa Valley Museum, (715) 834-7871 or l.fisher@cvmuseum.com.
Some comments from previous participants:
· “This is the kind of experience that alters a person’s entire paradigm of daily life. It would be impossible to grow so much as a person and not expand that understanding into my teaching.”
· “This trip has helped me to look at my community in a different way.”
This WTLC opportunity is offered by the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, the Chippewa Valley Museum and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and Wisconsin Humanities Council.
