Humanities Institute
Texas Teachers and Shakespeare in Performance
The many programs sponsored by the Humanities Institute includes Texas Teachers As Scholars, which is "A unique professional development opportunity and teacher renewal and retention resource...founded on the principle that the most important factor in quality education for students at all levels is a confident, energized, knowledgeable, and creative classroom teacher. Treating teachers as thinking adults whose own continuing opportunity to learn is critical to both their teaching effectiveness and their professional and personal satisfaction, Texas Teachers as Scholars provides K-12 teachers throughout Central Texas with content-rich seminars, spanning a wide range of topics and themes, designed and led by the University's most distinguished and dynamic faculty.
In each seminar twelve to fifteen teachers come together for two school days on the University campus to expand their knowledge, share their ideas, meet and learn from fellow teacher-scholars throughout the region, and apply their new expertise to their own class planning. Participating schools and school districts provide release time for their teachers to spend two such intensive and stimulating days at the University based on their recognition and support of teachers as intellectuals and professionals."
Professor Alan Friedman's Shakespeare in Performance seminar is regularly included among Humanities Institute offerings. To find out more about HI seminars and programs, please visit the Humanities Institute website.