NMAD’s in-person and virtual professional development programs provide educators with engaging ways to integrate the history, practice, and skills of diplomacy into their teaching.
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Connect your school, district, organization, or conference with the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
The length of a training varies by topic. A training is usually 30-45 minutes if focused on using NMAD educational resources, and 2 hours if the training includes facilitating NMAD’s diplomacy simulations.
In order to accommodate a request, the request must:
Include a minimum of 18 participants
Be submitted at least one month in advance
Please email nmad@state.gov to request a training by our museum staff. NMAD will schedule the requested training subject to the availability of museum staff.
Past Teacher Professional Development Opportunities
To help educators prepare for the fast approaching Fall semester, NMAD is hosting professional development workshops on how to use our new resources. Sign up to join virtually on August 12th, 16th, or 22nd.
Are you hoping to internationalize your classroom curriculum, enrich your classroom teaching on National History Day’s 2021-2022 theme “Debate and Diplomacy,” or find an interactive…
The National Museum of American Diplomacy Summer 2022 Teacher Workshop: Preparing Students for College, Career, and Civic Life with Diplomacy Skills will immerse teachers in the work of the U.S. Department of State and the skills of diplomacy.
Are you hoping to internationalize your classroom curriculum, prepare for National History Day’s 2021-2022 theme “Debate and Diplomacy,” or find an interactive activity for your…
Hear NMAD’s Education Team introduce new Historical Diplomacy Simulations and ideas on how to implement them into the classroom. Our discussion includes how to facilitate the program with simulation participants and a tour of diplomacy education resources found on the museum’s website.
From July 15 to 19, 2019, the National Museum of American Diplomacy (NMAD) partnered with the State Department’s Diplomatic Reception Rooms to conduct its first annual Teacher Institute for 25 middle and high school teachers.
The National Museum of American Diplomacy hosted a teacher resource fair for participants in the Department of State’s annual Global Teaching Dialogue. Educators from around…
EDUCATION TEAM NEWS
Working with Teachers To Bring Diplomacy Skills into Classrooms
From July 11 to 15, 2022, the National Museum of American Diplomacy hosted a professional development workshop for local teachers to learn how to prepare their students for college, careers, and civic life with the skills of diplomacy.
The National Museum of American Diplomacy’s Public Historian Dr. Alison Mann will help us understand the international implications of the Emancipation Proclamation and how America’s diplomats advocated its cause during the Civil War.
This World Water Day, Diplomacy Classroom is joined by the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs’ Tess Ericson. She will help us explore the importance and complexities of freshwater as a resource and global issue. We will discuss how and why the State Department works on freshwater issues. What…
In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day we were joined by Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Ellen Germain and NMAD’s Collections Manager Eric Duyck. Germain discussed U.S. foreign policy and the Holocaust as both a universal lesson and how it has served for many as motivation to make a career in public…