JANE AUSTEN
FOR TEACHERS
Teachers using Technology
for Literature + Literacy
Jane Austen for Teachers (JAFT) leverages the resources available at UNC Libraries and the National Humanities Center to offer unique pedagogical trainings and professionalization opportunities to teachers attending the Jane Austen Summer Program (JASP). Select public school teachers (PreK-12) will win a scholarship and spend up to two days after the symposium working collaboratively on a digital, publishable project synthesizing ideas taken from JASP lectures and discussion groups.
Preparation
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Teacher Fellows will meet virtually with JAFT directors and fellow educators and discuss classroom goals. Teachers may also select a topic or question to follow during JASP.
At JASP
During the four days of the JASP symposium,
Teacher Fellows meet together and with JAFT directors to continue their discussion of pedagogical issues and ways to implement Austen in the classroom.
At JASP+
Expanding on the inspiring ideas that emerged during JASP, JAFT invites participants to begin creating teaching tools to implement in the classroom. JAFT teachers are funded to stay beyond JASP to participate in workshops, create projects, and continue collaborating with one another.
Future
Future JAFT collaborations might center on podcasting, working with digital archives, digitizing manuscripts or other textual objects, or building interactive, annotated versions of the novels to bring into classrooms anywhere.
The possibilities are endless!
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Austen in the Classroom
