Texas teachers visit campus for four-day institute

Fort Worth, TX

6/5/2007

TCU hosted an institute titled The West and the Shaping of America for Texas teachers on campus earlier this month.

The event, jointly sponsored by Humanities Texas, TCU, and the Amon Carter Museum, drew more than 40 teachers to campus for four days of seminars, lectures, workshops and visits to local cultural institutions.

From visits to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe headquarters and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame to presentations by Hampton Sides, Elliott West and Quintard Taylor, the Fort Worth institute introduced participants to diverse topics and resources.

“The institutes provide teachers with new tools to enable them to incorporate aspects of the American west into their courses, whether in Texas and American history, social studies or language arts classes. Students are thereby better able to understand the founding principles of the United States and how those were adapted in the taming of the west.” said Mary L. Volcansek, dean of TCU’s AddRan College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

For more information about Humanities Texas and The West and the Shaping of America, visit www.humanitiestexas.org. For information about TCU, visit www.tcu.edu; for information about the Amon Carter Museum, visit www.cartermuseum.org.