This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
I wish you could know my hard-working 7th grade students. They are full of energy and so curious about learning about the world. With their work ethic, they are going to change the world.
Daily, I present my students with tasks which require them to push their thinking on a diversity of topics.
Integral to these thinking activities is that students have civil discourse. I am on a mission to expose them to as many other voices (for example, voices that have been marginalized) to the story of history.
We are a history class which feels like theatre, choir, acting, modeling, oratory, and dance. We use so many modalities to push the boundaries of knowledge and to showcase their academic abilities. I love that my students realize that they are teachers, too.
My Project
I want to take a week-long course, "The Enlightenment as a Global Phenomenon," at Georgetown this summer.
The Summer Teacher Institute 2019 will explore the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, both in its origins and impact.
As many historians have noted, the view of the Enlightenment as a European thought movement is inadequate and ignores both the effects of intellectual exchanges within and beyond Europe, including and after the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution. This course will allow me to introduce to my students contributions to the Enlightenment by Asia, Americas, and Africa. It is vitally important that students no longer see the Enlightenment as a Western European phenomenon.
Among the themes that my course will explore are:
Scientific knowledge and travel
Human nature and ideas of race
A cosmopolitan republic of letters
Literary, artistic, and philosophical cross-pollination
Religious exploration
Consumption of things and ideas
I am eager to take this content and deepen my (as well as my students') understanding and design curriculum projects which will explore this "global phenomenon."
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