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ALBA Institute
The ALBA Institute for Education educates teachers on the use of primary documents and multimedia resources to convey the lessons learned from the American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: progressivism, activism, and the impact of grassroots organizing. Institute Alumni publish lesson plans on our web site. Link to the Tampa and New York Institute pages for lesson plans for high school students written by teachers that use on-line resources and materials that can be ordered through ALBA.
Summer Institute for High School Teachers
Applications for the 2010 Summer Institute in Oberlin, Ohio are now being accepted! Click here for more information. Information on the Institute in Tampa, Florida will be posted soon.
ALBA is pleased to offer Summer Teachers Institute, sponsored by the Puffin Foundation, and hosted on the campuses of New York University and The University of South Florida in Tampa. Program partners at New York University include the the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development, The Tamiment Library and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
Each ALBA Summer Institute for High School Teachers brings together a group of 18-20 teachers for a week-long seminar aimed at introducing these educators to the resources available at ALBA, and at developing lesson plans and curricular units based on the materials of the Archives. Teachers participate in hands-on workshops, resulting in lesson plans published on the ALBA website.
The Institute is conducted by leading experts on the history and culture of the Spanish Civil War. Teachers are encouraged to incorporate ALBA's unique primary sources into their teaching of American History and World History, as well as Spanish and American literatures. Participating teachers will receive a set of books and films about the Spanish Civil War and foreign involvement in that conflict.
ALBA's First Summer Institute, NYC 2008
Immersion in the Archives
ALBA encourages high school teachers to bring their students into the archives in order to expose them to primary documents and the archival process.
In 2009, an ALBA Summer Institute alumnus, Oscar Gongora, brought his 11th grade class to the archives for an 8-week excursion-based minicourse. The students (below) read letters, viewed archival film, researched photographs and handled ephemera.
