Talking Walls

Georgia Children at Work and Play and the Georgia Performance Standards Professional Learning Unit

The Talking Walls heritage education program has trained more than 1,700 teachers, who have reached more than 370,000 students in 61 school systems in Georgia since 1991. The program's teacher workshops and ongoing local support trains educators to use local historic resources such as photos, maps, oral histories and historic buildings as teaching tools in Georgia's mandated curriculum.

The Georgia Department of Education recently emphasized the Trust's key role as an important educational resource by approving the Trust as a partner in its Educational Initiatives Program. This status recognizes The Georgia Trust as an official collaborator with the DOE to provide quality instructional materials to educators across the state. Talking Walls also received statewide certification by the Georgia DOE, allowing the Trust to award professional recertification credits to teachers attending program workshops.

June 4-8, 2007

Georgia Children at Work and Play and the Georgia Performance Standards Professional Learning Unit

Organization: Columbus Museum, Historic Columbus Foundation, Port Columbus

Contact: Ms. Nicola Sarn, 706-748-2562

This weeklong workshop for 2nd - 5th and 8th grade teachers of Muscogee and neighboring counties uses an adaptation of the Georgia Trust's "Talking Walls" program to conduct workshops focusing on the history of the region using original source material to emphasize historic events. The workshop includes area tours, an educator's guide, and professional learning units for the participants.

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