The American Numismatic Association has a whole host of Educational outreach programs and benefits for Teachers  ( and Students)

for TEACHERS

 '"Coins in the Classroom" Summer Seminar in Colorado Springs

- read the details HERE

If you apply for a Scholarship to cover your costs in attending, please do mention you are an ACE Teacher!

Read what one ACE Teacher said after she attended that Seminar in 2004.............

 ACE Teacher Leslie Perkins' report after returning from the ANA ‘s Coins in the Classroom - July 2004

I have just returned from the American Numismatic Association Summer
Seminar on Coins in the Classroom.    ACE's  own Cathy Scaife and Dr Lane
Brunner were among our three teachers, and each did an outstanding job!
This course is designed for teachers by the ANA which gives scholarships
that cover tuition, room, board, and a generous donation toward transportation expenses.
The course covered ancient, American, and World coins and was useful to a
wide variety of teachers.  Although the course is intended for middle
school teachers, both high school and elementary school teachers were
represented in this year's group.  In addition to the ACE coin attribution
project, Cathy presented electrolysis with coins, the coin museum and new
archeological "dig" projects.  We had a chance to mint our own coins,
including mint errors,  to tour the ANA Museum, and to use the ANA
Library.  There were also bull sessions (short, introductory lectures)
that  we could attend twice a day.  These covered topics such as the coins
of the 12 Caesars, Medieval Coins, Byzantine Empresses, Jetons (counting
tokens from the Middle Ages which were used on abaci the same way that
Romans used them), and early American coinage.  Some of these
presentations were even done in period costume.  We were given 30 lbs. of
free materials including videotapes, posters, coins to give away or use in
our classes, magazines, coin catalogues,  a CD ROM, examples of currency,
and many books.  The generosity of everyone associated with the ANA was
amazing.

Not only did we have a great class and  30 lbs of free materials (I know
because I shipped mine home), but the campus of Colorado College in
Colorado Springs is a beautiful place to spend a week.  Only about 8 miles
from Pike's Peak, it was cool and pleasant for my entire stay.    You
could see the mountains everywhere.   Our scholarships include membership
in the ANA.  Membership gives you a subscription to the Numismatist, the
ANA monthly magazine, and the use of their library.  You may borrow any
volume for 6 weeks for the price of postage and insurance.  The library
includes slide sets, four or five of which deal with Greece and Rome.  The
library also includes periodicals, the best of which were the Celator (I
intend to subscribe now) and the Classical and Medieval Numismatic
Quarterly.  For those of you who are Latin teachers, you will find the
Celator has much of interest in our field and many articles that would be
useful to our students. You can obtain photocopies of articles from these
for the cost of copying and postage.  I stayed over an extra week to use
the library and attend David Vagi's night class on the 12 Caesars and
their coins as it seemed too good an opportunity to miss.  Another
wonderful opportunity was the Colorado Coin Show.  It was the first coin
show I had ever attended, and I had a wonderful time. 

If any of you are interested in attending next year, check out the
ANA web site at www.money.org.  Information about the application process
is under "Education."

Leslie Perkins
St. Johns, FL