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National Summer
Institute Program
History of the AAM National Summer Institutes
(NSI)
NSI Best Practices
2003 NSI Summary & Agenda
2003 NSI Summary & Agenda
by Wendy Fusco
AAM Director, Montreat College
Suggestions and comments: E-mail (wfusco@montreat.edu)
The 2003 Summer Institute was developed
based on the 2002 Summer Institute experiences and observations
of ERC and AAM staff members, and the evaluation report from
the LOC. While many activities remained the same, modifications
were made to enhance the institute’s effectiveness.
The title of the 2003 National Summer Institute was the Thomas
Jefferson Summer Institute (TJSI)
Application packets were given to the AAM
Partner Directors at the February Partner Meeting. Each Partner
was asked to e-mail or mail the packets to current AAM participants
or submit a mailing list to the TJSI team, who would mail
the packets directly. Teachers were given a deadline of May
9 to submit the application.
While the application process was taking
place, the TJSI team conducted a four-day reconnaissance
trip to Charlottesville, VA and Washington, DC in April to
confirm dates, presentations, and activities.
Thirty teachers and media specialists applied
to attend the institute. Each partner was represented with
the exception of Wingate. On May 17, the institute participants
from Brevard, Furman, Mars Hill, Montreat, and WCU gathered
at Mars Hill College in the teleconferencing room to meet
face-to-face for a preliminary session, which consisted of
an in-depth overview of the trip, a brainstorming session
on unit plan topics and an overview of the requirements the
participants must fulfill both prior to and during the institute.
Institute participants from SIU-Carbondale joined the group
live from their college’s teleconferencing room; the
session was videotaped for the Arizona, SIU-Edwardsville,
and FTCC participants who where not able to be digitally
connected.
A BlackBoard Web site was developed for
the TJSI team and institute participants to stay in constant
communication. The participants were given assignments each
week that ranged from utilizing the LOC’s Web site to
using a discussion board. The participants used the Kenwood
Library’s Portal, UVA’s online catalog and the
LOC’s catalog to locate resources for their unit plans.
They also used discussion boards to convey ideas, share exciting
resource finds and simply get to know one another. Each participant
submitted a complete unit plan prior to attending the institute.
The unit plans served as a guide for the data the participants
collected on the trip.
The institute was two days longer than
last year. Participants from Arizona and Illinois arrived
in Asheville on Saturday, June 21, and took a complimentary
shuttle to a near-by motel. On Sunday Brian picked them up
in a Montreat van, took them to lunch then brought them to
Montreat’s Black Mountain Campus (In the Oaks) to meet
the bus. All other participants assembled at In the Oaks
and boarded the bus while leaving their cars in one of the
parking lots. The bus departed for Charlottesville, Va.,
at 2:30pm on Sunday, June 22.
The participants were on their own for
dinner and entertainment on Sunday evening. On Monday morning
curators engaged the participants in presentations and hands-on
activities at the Kenwood Library. They were then given time
to study the books they had reserved during one of the preliminary
online assignments. Lunch took place at historic Michie Tavern.
Monday afternoon the group participated in docent-led tours
of Thomas Jefferson’s home, gardens, and plantation
at Monticello at their own leisure.
Tuesday morning the participants were taken
to the campus of the University of Virginia and divided into
two groups. One group began the morning with Dr. Jennings
Waggoner, an education historian and a professor at the University
of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, who interpreted
the history and architecture of the Academical Village. The
other group examined artifacts from the special collections.
After forty-five minutes the groups switched. During and
after lunch the group was given time to explore the grounds
of UVA until the bus left at 3pm for Washington, D.C.
In D.C. the participants assembled at the
LOC for sessions on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The
sessions this year were modified to include more hands-on
activities, interaction with the curators, time to utilize
the reading room and structured exploration time. On Wednesday
the group toured the Thomas Jefferson Building and enjoyed
a curator presentation on rare books. Thursday included the
group meeting with curators from the manuscript division
while Friday involved a tour of the maps room. On Friday
evening Arizona and Illinois participants flew out of D.C.
The bus carrying the remaining teachers departed at 7pm and
traveled to Harrisonburg, Va., where they stayed the night.
By 8am Saturday morning the bus left for Black Mountain with
an arrival time of approximately 2:30pm. Some of the assignments
the participants were required to completed included the
obtainment of a reader’s card and requisition of a
book relevant to their lesson plan from the LOC; eating at
an ethnic restaurant; keeping a learning log during the Monticello,
UVA, and LOC division curator presentations; and acquiring
artifacts relevant to their units. Each piece of assignment
evidence, like the reader’s card and book request slip,
were kept in a three-ring binder known as the “institute
collection scrapbook.” A check-sheet accompanied the
scrapbook. As the teachers complete their assignments, they
checked off the appropriate line and shared their evidence
with Danny or Reid. Once all assignments were completed,
participants entered their cards in a drawing for a $25 gift
certificate to Barnes and Noble. Linda Babb, a teacher from
Furman’s AAM partner, won the gift certificate.
During August the unit plans were compiled
in an Access database and burned on a CD. Copies of this
CD were mailed to all 2003 TJSI participants.
2003 Thomas Jefferson
Summer Institute Agenda
Wednesday, June 25
9:00am – 10:00am
Great Hall Tour
10:30am – 12:00pm
Rare books collection with curator(s) and Reader Registration
12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Group A: Make It, Take It session or Research Orientation to the LOC
Group B: Reading Room or Museum Visit
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Group A: Reading Room or Museum Visit
Group B: Make It, Take It session or Research Orientation to the LOC
Thursday, June 26
9:00am – 10:45am
Group A: Manuscript Collections
Group B: “Images of Native Americans”
10:45am – 12:00pm
Group A: “Images of Native Americans”
Group B: Manuscript Collections
12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm – 5:00pm
Computer Time and Directed Research or Research on Your Own
Friday, June 27
9:00am – 10:45am
Group A: Geography and Maps Tour
Group B: Specialist Talk: Geography and Maps
10:45am – 12:00pm
Group A: Specialist Talk: Geography and Maps
Group B: Geography and Maps Tour
12:00pm Lunch
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