Teacher Workshops in Rhode Island
Posted November 22nd, 2010 by Kristin GallasCategory: News and Announcements Tags: Linden Place, Northern slavery, Rhode Island, Tracing Center
This fall the Tracing Center presented a series of special workshops for Rhode Island educators on the role of the North in slavery.
The history of Rhode Island’s complicity in slavery and the slave trade has been missing from the state’s classrooms for generations. The Rhode Island Department of Education mandated teaching about the state’s complicity in slavery/slave trade in its Grade Span Expectations (teaching standards) in 2008. Some teachers don’t know the history, other teachers are aware of the historical information, but are unsure how to teach it. The workshops covered content knowledge about Rhode Island’s complicity in slavery and the slave trade, as well as tools for how to effectively and sensitively teach the subject matter to students of all backgrounds. Through our training in content and pedagogy and the written resources provided for them, they returned to their classroom better equipped to teach about slavery and its legacies.
