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Rachel G. Ragland <ragland@lakeforest.edu> Lake Forest College Teaching American History grant project impact; collaboration between history and education faculty |
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Address: | 555 N. Sheridan Road Box L10 Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 United States |
Primary Phone: | 847-735-5198 |
Fax Number: | 847-735-6192 |
Web Page: | https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/faculty/ragland/ |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-TAH |
Interests: | American History / Studies |
Bio: Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia University M.S., University of Pennsylvania B.A., University of Pennsylvania Educ 315 Middle School Fieldwork and Seminar Educ 418 Student Teaching and Elementary Seminar Educ 419 Curriculum Design and Secondary Methods Educ 420 Secondary Social Studies Instructional Design Educ 421 Student Teaching and Secondary Seminar "Increasing Teacher Efficacy in High-Need Schools: Lessons from Teaching American History" w/ Ebner,M. Success in High-Need Schools, Vol.1, Issue 4 November, 2006. Best Practices in Professional Development: Meeting Teachers at their “Point of Need’”,Proceedings of Midwestern Educational Research Association 2003 Annual Meeting, October, 2003. ERIC Document Reproduction Service. “Teaching American History: A Report from the Field (Lake County, IL)”, w/ M.H. Ebner and D. Abt-Perkins, Organization of American Historians Newsletter, Vol. 31, No. 1, February, 2003 Associate Project Director, Linking Learning Communities program (Lake Forest College project as part of a 5 – year Teacher Quality Enhancement grant to the Associated Colleges of Illinois from the federal Department of Education)October 2004 - June 2006 Assistant Academic Director, McRAH (Model Collaboration: Rethinking American History) program (3-year $900,000 federal Department of Education grant)October, 2001 – September 2004 Planning Committee, Second Annual Teaching American History Conference, Chicago, IL Planning Committee, First Annual Teaching American History Conference, Bloomington, IL Presented session entitled “A Model Collaboration: Best Practices for College/School Partnerships for Teacher Development”, Annual Meeting of the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, D.C.February, 2005 Presented session entitled “Historically Thinking: Images of 19th century IndustrialAmerica”, Teaching American History Annual Project Director’s Meeting, Washington, D.C. May, 2004 Coordinated and presented a panel presentation entitled: “Rethinking American History:A Case Study in Inter-Institutional Collaboration”; 83rd Annual Conference of National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL November, 2003 Presented session entitled “Best Practices in Professional Development: Meeting Teachers at their “Point of Need”, Midwestern Education Research Association 2003 Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio October, 2003 Presented session entitled “What Research Tells Us About Teaching American History –Lessons from McRAH: Implementing Effective Strategies in the Secondary Classroom”;24th Annual History Teachers Conference, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL October, 2003 |