"The [professional development] by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association is the best professional development program that I have experienced as both a teacher and administrator."--School Principal

Professional Development

The Deerfield Teachers' Center offers a wide variety of professional development programming in history and related humanities. Teachers' Center programs meet the needs of all teachers charged with developing their Kindergarten through Grade 12 students' Common Core literacy skills. This is achieved through content-driven, interactive, literacy-building techniques. The Deerfield Teachers' Center is an authorized PDP provider which offers cutting-edge professional development designed and delivered by our experienced staff of humanists and historians, museum educators, and master classroom teachers.

 

Meet Common Core standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History / Social Studies

Provide effecive hands-on, engaging classroom strategies

Integrate literacy building, 21st century learning skills

Are aligned with the Massachusetts State Standards for History and Social Studies

Are available on site in your school or district, or at the Teachers' Center located in scenic Old Deerfield

Encourage the integration into classroom teaching of high quality websites (many of which deliver primary sources to the classroom) including Memorial Hall's American Centuries, the Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704, and Shays' Rebellion and the Making of a Nation. These sites feature web-based lessons and activities by and for teachers.

Can integrate in-class programs for students.

Visit the Field Trips page to see exciting offerings for field trips to the Indian House Children's Museum and Memorial Hall Museum.

Funding for the Deerfield Teachers' Center is provided in part by grants from:

The United States Department of Education

The Massachusetts Cultural Council

The Institute of Museum and Library Services