The New York City Department of Education is sponsoring this American History Film Club. This collaboration between the Department of Education and The Paley Center for Media, provides teachers with strategies to effectively use mainstream movies in conjunction with American history curriculum.

Participating teachers will meet over four evening sessions from October to December to examine themes, content, and historical accuracies/inaccuracies in some of Hollywood's cinematic interpretations of American history.  Participants will receive DVDs prior to each session and attend all four American History Film Club meetings.  The club's facilitators will lead historical and pedagogical sessions on strategies for utilizing each film in the classroom and will share primary media documents from the Paley Center collection.

Go to: http://pd.nycoit.org/ . Once you login, click to open the drop-down menu for “department.” Scroll down to “Social Studies” and click. This will bring you to all Social Studies offerings, listed alphabetically. Click on a course title to register. Registration is now closed for this program.

Project Director, Elise Abegg
eabegg@schools.nyc.gov

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