Dear Colleague:
I invite you to join an impressive list of scholars, actors, teachers, and curriculum consultants for an intensely rewarding four-week summer institute focused on teaching Shakespeare. Since 1984, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. has offered 15 Institutes funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Teachers who participate in these institutes return to their schools reinvigorated and enriched with the latest scholarship and pedagogical resources to inform and inspire their students. The institutes have a profound effect on the intellectual lives of their participants, an effect that gets transmitted to other teachers in the participants’ schools through in-service sessions and other professional development presentations. Their work also has worldwide impact through the innovative curriculum developed over the summer and posted on the Folger Education website.
Teaching Shakespeare institutes feature a committed faculty composed of scholars, teachers, and actors; a diverse and talented participant group; a research component that utilizes the rich holdings of the Folger Shakespeare Library; the modeling of excellent teaching and learning; and a curriculum component that has been instrumental in changing the way Shakespeare is taught in classrooms around the country. Teaching Shakespeare 2010 will further this tradition with an emphasis on the past and future: exploring primary sources that create a link to Shakespeare’s period and culture, and creating curricular innovations utilizing technology and the internet. These include the development of lesson plans to be published on the Teaching Shakespeare website, first created during the 1998 Institute.
Full-time secondary teachers and graduate students with teaching experience are eligible to apply. For more information on eligibilty requirements, please visit the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes page here.
I hope that you will consider spending part of your summer in Washington. If you have any questions about the application or about the institute, we can be reached by email at educate@folger.edu, or by telephone at (202) 675-0395. The application deadline is March 2, 2010. Successful applicants will be notified on April 1, 2010.
On behalf of the Folger Education Department, we look forward to receiving your application.
Sincerely,
Robert Young
Director of Education
Folger Shakespeare Library
