Call for Submissions

During our upcoming annual meeting in Philadelphia (Jan. 5-8), the AHA will convene two charrettes: an assignment charrette and a grading writing charrette. Please join us for either of these events. 

Grading Writing Charrette

Friday, January 6, 2023, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT

Assignment Charrette and Syllabus Workshop

Sunday, January 8, 2023, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT

Grading Writing Charrette

For the first time, the AHA Teaching Division has organized a grading writing charrette. Similar to the assignment charrette, this workshop allows college faculty, graduate students with teaching responsibility, and K-12 teachers to discuss writing assignments used in the classroom.

Date and Time

Friday, January 6, 2023, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Ballroom Salon J

Workshop Description

The  workshop will begin with a short orientation; the bulk of the time will be reserved for participants to work in small breakout groups with a facilitator and offer in-depth feedback on each other's assignments. Each participant will have a few minutes to introduce their submitted assignment and request particular help with problems or aspects of designing or implementing it and/or with assessing students' work. The expectation is that participants will use feedback to revise their assignments for the future. Participants will reconvene at the end of the period to discuss the lessons from all groups. Walk on participation welcome. 

Assignment Charrette and Course Syllabus Workshop

Want to get your course assignments peer-reviewed by fellow history educators? Submit an assignment for the Assignment Charrette at the 2023 AHA annual meeting in Philadelphia, Jan. 5-8. Anyone teaching at the undergraduate level or at the K-12 levels with a teaching assignment (to include traditional assignments, educational activities, or assessments) or a brand new one that would benefit from in-depth review and discussion with faculty from other institutions should consider participating. Participants in the past have primarily been college faculty, but graduate students with teaching responsibility and K-12 teachers have also taken part and found it valuable.

Date and Time

Sunday, January 8, 2023, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT
Notary Hotel, Autograph Collection - Juniper Ballroom

Workshop Description

The morning workshop will begin with a short orientation; the bulk of the time will be reserved for participants to work in small breakout groups with a facilitator and offer in-depth feedback on each other's assignments. Each participant will have a few minutes to introduce their submitted assignment and request particular help with problems or aspects of designing or implementing it and/or with assessing students' work. The expectation is that participants will use feedback to revise their assignments for the future. Participants will reconvene at the end of the period to discuss the lessons from all groups then turn to a guided consideration of what a syllabus can be. Walk on participation welcome. 

General Information

Participant Responsibility

Participants for both charrettes will be expected to read thoroughly and review approximately 4 other assignments, and to offer constructive feedback, including a written feedback form, during the workshop.

Related Information

These events are in part of a larger on-going charrette series included in the AHA's Tuning Projecct. For details on the AHA's Tuning project, which provides a context for faculty development of core competencies/proficiencies associated with undergraduate history teaching, go to historians.org/tuning.

Please address all questions to Rachel Wheatley, Program Assistant, Academic and Professional Affairs, at rwheatley@historians.org.