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A Visionary Adventure across Continents
The Marshall Immersion Workshop for Teachers, Summer 2010

The George C. Marshall International Center's showcase education program, the Marshall Immersion Workshop, is now in its eighth year, and the 2010 program promises to offer a most exciting experience for all participants. All expenses are paid, and participants receive a $200 stipend, free materials, and re-certification points. You can download an application here.

The workshop, "A Visionary Adventure across Continents," focuses on the far-reaching impact of the European Recovery Program (ERP) - known to the world as the Marshall Plan. The week-long program will take place July 19-23 and is open primarily to selected secondary-level US and world history teachers, or system social studies supervisors from Virginia schools.

Teachers will experience the rare and special privilege of meeting at Dodona Manor to learn more about his contributions to twentieth century history. Using a series of primary documents from the Truman Presidential Library and the Marshall Foundation Library, participants will test a simulation suitable for their classrooms that focuses on Marshall's specific and significant role in securing the passage of the ERP. Teachers will also view documentaries about the Marshall Plan, along with several engaging archival films originally created to promote the ERP in Europe.

A significant aspect of the workshop emphasizes Marshall's use of diplomacy as a tool for rebuilding Europe after the war. Through a partnership developed with the United States Department of State, participants will have the unique opportunity to experience an afternoon of learning at the department's United States Diplomacy Center in Washington, D.C., and will have a tour of the historic diplomatic reception rooms there.

Teachers will complete the week at the Marshall Museum and Library in Lexington, Virginia. There they will study original documents that relate to and reveal the background of some of Marshall's most important decisions, including his personal copy of the June 5 Harvard speech outlining the key concepts of the ERP.

Chief among the many outstanding components of the Marshall-immersion learning experience is the opportunity for interaction between American and European colleagues. The 2010 summer workshop will include participants from Germany, Austria, and Norway, all countries that received major ERP funding. The participation of our European guests gives participants from both sides of the Atlantic the invaluable opportunity to learn about each other's education systems and cultures.

For an application, click here. The deadline for submitting an application is Monday, May 3rd.

Teachers from the 2008 Marshall Immersion Workshop standing on the steps of Dodona Manor, the home of General George C. Marshall in
Leesburg, Virginia.

"Please make sure other teachers find out about it so they don't miss the opportunity."
- Prince Georges County participant, Tenika Holden

"This workshop was uplifting. At a time when news reports focus almost obsessively on celebrities of minimal consequence, it was very bracing to spend five days assessing the life and work of a man of such towering character and integrity as George Marshall."
- Fairfax County public school teacher, David Green

Corresponding Standards of Learning

The Marshall Immersion Workshop was developed to help teachers satisfy Virginia's Standards of Learning (SOLs), which are constructed around national standards.

Using materials developed especially for Marshall Immersion Workshop, students will:

1) Demonstrate skills for historical analysis, including the ability to analyze and interpret primary and secondary source documents to increase understanding of events and life in the U.S. from 1877 to the present; and

2) Learn to interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives.

SOLs that are satisfied through the Marshall Immersion Workshop address the period in American history dealing with "Turmoil and Change: 1890s to 1945, and the United States since World War II," and are outlined below.

SOLs: WHII.9a, WHII.b, VUS.9b, VUS.9b Students explain the reason for the United States' involvement in World War I and its leadership role at the conclusion of the war.

SOLs: VUS.10a, WHII.11a, USII.6a
Students demonstrate knowledge of the major causes and effects of American involvement in World War II by describing the major events and turning points of the war in Europe and the Pacific.

SOLs: WHII.11c, USII.6b, USII.6c, VUS.12a
Students demonstrate knowledge of the economic, social, and political transformation of the United States and the world between the end of World War Two and the present day by describing the rebuilding of Europe and Japan after World War Two; the emergence of the United States as a superpower; and the establishment of the United Nations.

SOLs: USII.7a
Students describe the conversion from a wartime to a peacetime economy.

SOLs: WHII.12a, VUS.12b, USII.7a, USII.b
Students identify the role of America's military in defending freedom during the Cold War, including the war in Korea.

"They found in Marshall one of those rare teachers who made a difference, who opened minds in such a way that they never afterwards quite closed again or forgot the excitement of a new idea."

- Forrest Pogue
Marshall's official biographer


	Current Exhibit: "With Admiration and Affection" Saturdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sundays & Mondays 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. The Letters of George C. Marshall and Winston S. Churchill examines the remarkable correspondence of these two great twentieth- century leaders, whose relationship was forged in the crucible of world war.