The American Institute for History Education’s
mission is to provide substantive, engaging historical content
and activities for teachers to use in their classrooms that
will dramatically increase students’ comprehension
of historical events, personalities, issues, and trends.
The American Institute for History Education’s programs
will also produce a marked increase in students’ problem
solving and thinking skills, through substantive application
activities. Students will see a historical continuum, not
a series of disconnected events. |
Purpose of the Institute
The American Institute for History Education was
founded to provide history teachers with high quality professional
development programs, firmly anchored in rich historical content,
along with substantive historical lessons, activities, and resources
to use in their classrooms. The AIHE appreciates the tremendous
need for teachers to have access to optimum quality historical
content and more advanced resources. Study after study, and results
from NAEP testing, demonstrate that American students are not
receiving competent history-education opportunities. Both students
and teachers have been subjected to banal textbooks and programs
that barely skim over the crucial issues in American History.
Students need to be engaged in substantive historical content.
Only through reading solid, exciting historical narratives and
working with primary source material will students grasp the
essential events of American History and proficiently
comprehend the crucial issues of modern society.
The American Institute for History Education believes
that students will rise to high expectations if teachers provide
them with the means. Voluminous empirical and quantitative research
verifies this. Students will comprehend abstract ideas and think
critically once they have a competent base of knowledge. Thinking
skills will increase commensurate with the amount of data students
retain. The American Institute for History Education works to
provide teachers with the materials to help students analyze
erudite historical material, process the information, synthesize
substantive data, and articulate reasoned conclusions.
"To know nothing
of what happened before you were born is to remain forever
a child." Cicero |
