Upcoming NCSS Conferences and Workshops
July 22, 2013 –
July 24, 2013
National Archives Building and Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Teaching With Documents and Works of Art: An Integrated Approach
Focus on Photography as Art and Document
This three-day workshop will provide a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, collaborative work, and analysis of documents and works of art in order to introduce teachers to the holdings, resources, and programs of the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This is the sixth year these organizations have partnered to bring educators nationwide new approaches to teaching with primary sources. This year's content focus is photography as art and document. Workshop attendees will participate in and develop classroom activities that utilize both visual images and primary source documents as teaching tools in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. They will also participate in hands-on activities related to historical photography processes.  Details and Registration Information
July 22, 2013 –
July 26, 2013
Brandman University,
Monterey, CA
Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS): A Teacher Training Institute
Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS) is a professional development program that trains pre-service, as well as in-service, social studies teachers in curriculum design, assessment,
and instruction in a standards-based environment. This institute will provide participants with the materials and expertise necessary to lead their own PASS training workshops in their schools and school districts. Participants will
learn about PASS criteria and standards for curriculum design, assessment construction, and effective instruction. In small learning communities, participants will examine videotaped K-12 vignettes of teaching and create
examples of curriculum units and assessment tasks to share with their learning community. This PASS institute will be of interest at all educational levels. Details and Registration Information
July 31, 2013 –
August 2, 2013
University of Wisconsin, School of Continuing Education Conference Center,
Milwaukee, WI
Strengthening Social Studies Learning and Excellence in the Common Core using Practical, Engaging, Thoughtful Teaching Strategies
Make every lesson deep and engaging with research-based practice-proven teaching strategies. In this institute, you will learn 15 powerful and practical activities to foster active engagement, excitement, and enhanced thinking in your students while building a learning community with your fellow participants and presenters. Through the experience of hands-on lessons, we will model constructivist strategies in the areas of inquiry learning and substantive discussion, as well as reading, writing, and other creative processing activities. The strategies can be applied in any history, humanities, or social science lesson, and authentic resources will be provided with each lesson. The use of technology (e.g. Google Earth and Interactive White Board-SMART or Promethean) to further engage your students will also be explored. Three graduate credits will be made available for interested participants. Details and Registration Information
August 5, 2013 –
August 7, 2013
American Enterprise Institute,
Washington, DC
Conducting Socratic Seminars: A Leader's Workshop with a Focus on Primary Source Documents from US History
This Socratic seminar workshop is taught by nationally recognized Socratic seminar trainer John Zola. Participants in the program will develop skills as Socratic seminar discussion leaders. Unique to this program is a focus on using primary sources from US history, drawn from The Constitutional Sources Project (www.ConSource.org) and www.WhatSoProudlyWeHail.org.
Socratic seminars are teacher-led classroom discussions that promote higher-level thinking, more careful reading of texts, and increased skills of classroom and civil discussion. They are appropriate for any social studies disciplines and are successful with students from elementary through high school. The workshop will combine the learning of skills necessary to use seminars in your classroom with a focus on significant documents from US History. Teachers of any social studies discipline, however, are welcomed and encouraged to enroll in the workshop.
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