Next Session: “Teaching Immigration across the Curriculum”

January 9 and 10, 2010

Contact Marcia Hohn at mhohn@ilctr.org for more information.

Professional Development for Teachers

Twice a year, The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc. offers free, two-day forums for K-12 and community educators entitled “Teaching Immigration across the Curriculum.” These forums include such topics as:

• History of Immigration Past & Present Compared with Connections to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
• Facilitating the Debate Immigration’s Benefits & Burdens
• The Sociology of Immigration: Issues of Integration and Assimilation
• Issues in Contemporary Immigration Policy

Over 100 teachers have attended these forums from elementary, junior and senior high schools as well as community education organizations. They have used the forums as a springboard for developing lessons to integrate the inclusion of immigrants and immigration at an age-appropriate level for their classrooms.

The Immigrant Learning Center is a registered provider of professional development points (PDPs) and teachers who complete ten hours or more in the forums are awarded PDPs.

For further information, contact Marcia Hohn at 781-322-9777 or mhohn@ilctr.org

For teachers needing graduate credit, there is an online, graduate level course “Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development: Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration” offered through UMass Boston. This is a fee-based course that offers three credits and 45 PDPs (course #1145 at ccde.umb.edu).

This course is designed for K-12 and community-based educators, student teachers and others interested in the development of content-based English-language curriculum. The course content will focus on current perspectives on immigration and integrating immigration topics into lesson planning.

For more information, contact Carol Chandler at (carolchandler@msn.com) or call Continuing Education at 617-287-5914.