Teacher Training
Keith is a popular workshop presenter and regularly leads workshops for history teachers at the secondary and college levels. He emphasizes historical thinking based on the findings of cognitive science and the scholarly work of trained historians.
Invite Keith to present a workshop.
His workshops on learning and teaching history include topics such as using primary sources in the classroom, relevance, doing history at home, using music to teach thinking, and the top 10 differences between liberal and conservative histories.
His workshops on U.S. History include topics such as the Constitution, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War at its legacy, civil rights and social change, the Cold War and containment, the Vietnam War in comparison and in memory, and Christian America.
Selected Recent Workshops
University of Utah, NEH workshop on primary sources, Salt Lake City, UT, 2017, 2019
El Paso Independent School District, two workshops on U.S. history, El Paso, TX, 2013
Region 19 Service Center, four workshops for novice teachers, El Paso, TX, 2012-2013
Ysleta Independent School District, four workshops on U.S. history, El Paso, TX, 2012
Pueblo City Schools, seven workshops on U.S. history since 1945, Pueblo, CO, 2011
(At the invitation of the National Council for History Education)
Ysleta Independent School District, six workshops on U.S. history, El Paso, TX, 2011
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi History Department, two workshops on introductory history courses, Corpus Christi, TX, 2010
Humanities Texas, three teacher institute workshops, El Paso, TX, 2010, 2011
Ysleta Independent School District, four workshops on using primary sources, El Paso, TX, 2009
Alamogordo, Gadsden, and Las Cruces School Districts, TAH workshop, Las Cruces, NM, 2009
Brown County Public Schools, TAH workshop, Nashville, IN, 2006
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