The NHD program provides teachers with resource materials, workshops, and other opportunities for professional development.

 The state coordinator is available to come to speak with your co-workers, your students and/or parents and to provide guidance as your students complete their entries.  We are also willing to participate in your school competition.  Please contact us:  kpeterson@dehistory.org or call (302) 295-2388.

 

Benefits for Teachers
National History Day:

• gives teachers a model teaching tool for the classroom, based on active learning
• helps teachers meet the requirements of national and state history standards
• provides an excellent assessment tool for classroom use
• helps teachers integrate the study of history with other disciplines, including writing, the arts, and other social sciences
• supplies curricular aids such as lesson plans and bibliographic guides
• supports professional development by offering workshops and summer institutes where teachers can learn about the latest in historical scholarship and new teaching methods and techniques
• encourages teachers to interact with academic historians, librarians, archivists, and public historians
• Visit the Classroom Connection page on the National History Day site for great teacher resources:  http://www.nhd.org/ClassroomConnection.htm

Download the Delaware History Day Teacher's Handbook