Expanding the Ancient World Workshop
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Expanding the Ancient World Workshop
Broken Pots, Big Ideas: Using Ancient Ceramics to Teach Economy, Trade and Cultural Exchange
This workshop is designed for high-school educators seeking to incorporate archaeological evidence into their teaching of the ancient Mediterranean in concrete, accessible ways. It introduces ceramics as a uniquely powerful category of material culture for classroom use: abundant, visually legible, and deeply informative about trade, technology, daily life, and social organization.Agenda
Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Keyed to the NYC Department of Education Social Studies Scope and Sequence, this program is designed to offer K-12 educators opportunities to develop their knowledge of the ancient world and to provide classroom-ready strategies for teaching the past with reliable sources. Featuring inquiry-based workshops, flexible lesson plans, and up-to-date research, Expanding the Ancient World aims to equip teachers with information and skills that they can share with their students. CTLE credits will be offered to New York State teachers.
In addition, the workshop provides adaptable background materials and comparative examples from other major ceramic traditions of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East (including Greek painted pottery and other widely circulated wares), allowing teachers to modify or extend the lesson to fit different chronological periods, geographic regions, and curricular needs. Throughout, the emphasis is on using objects to teach historical thinking in an active-learning oriented classroom.
Participants will leave with a complete lesson plan, supporting resources, and a flexible framework for integrating archaeological ceramics into existing world history curricula.Key Speaker: Dylan Winchell
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
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ISAW is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, which aims to encourage particularly the study of the economic, religious, political and cultural connections between ancient civilizations. It offers both doctoral and postdoctoral programs, with the aim of training a new generation of scholars who will enter the global academic community and become intellectual leaders.
