C3 Framework Webinar Series: Implications for Practice

[At Capacity]

Details February 11, 2014through June 10, 2014

Description

You may still register for the series to receive access to the past recordings and to particpate in future webinar sessions. If you have any questions, please contact Ashante Horton at ashante@ncss.org.

Featuring C3 Teacher Presenters: Stephen Lazar, Andy Snyder, James Walsh, Christy Cartner, Donna Phillips, Rod Powell, Joe Karb, and more!

This webinar series will feature C3 Teachers in action as they facilitate participant discussions on the implementation of the C3 Framework. The C3 Teachers project is an open, collaborative network where teachers can interact with each other about enhancing social studies. C3teachers.org aims to empower teachers as they wrestle with the big ideas and instructional implications of the C3 Framework. Kathy Swan and John Lee, C3 Framework writers and co-creators of the C3 Teachers movement, will moderate the series.

This isn't your older brother's webinar series! Be prepared to problem solve and ask the tough questions of the C3 Framework and join the C3 Teachers movement - the webinars are a space to find instructional solutions together.

Webinar Sessions:

• February 11:How Do You Make Questions Come Alive for Inquiry in the Classroom?
  Developing strategies for helping students develop inquiry questions is a very important first step in successful implementing C3 supported inquiry in the classroom;
• March 18:How Do You Help Your Students Use Disciplinary Literacies to Explore Content through Inquiry?
  Social studies teachers understand the importance of disciplinary literacies. The C3 Framework moves forward our understanding of these literacies by situating them as a part of inquiry;
• April 15:How Do Your Students Gather Sources, Evaluate Evidence, and Develop Claims to Make Valid Arguments?
  Given the massive amount of information that is available today, knowing how to locate and effectively use that information is very important. So is a deep understanding unique relationship between evidence and claims;
• May 20:How Do Your Students Creatively Communicate Results from an Inquiry?
  Citizens today need skills for communicating in all sorts of contexts and on various platforms; and
• June 10:How Do You Overcome Challenges for Students to Take Informed Action in Social Studies?
  Preparing young people to take action, from conversations with friends to lobbying Congress, is the ultimate purpose of social studies.

Required Reading: College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Guidance for Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History.

Facilitators

In addition to special C3 Teacher guest presenters, this series will be led by:

Kathy Swan, Associate Professor, Social Studies Education at the University of Kentucky.
Her research focuses on standards-based technology integration, authentic intellectual work, and documentary-making in the social studies classroom. Her co-authored book And Action! Directing Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom and children's series Thinking Like A Citizen were published in the Fall 2013. She is also the advisor for the Social Studies Assessment, Curriculum, and Assessment Collaborative (SSACI) at the Chief Council of State School Officers (CCSSO) and was the project Director/Lead Writer of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Kathy co-founded C3 Teachers to help facilitate ongoing work around the C3 Framework.

John Lee, Associate Professor, Social Studies Education at North Carolina State University.
His scholarly work focuses on digital history and new literacies in K-12 and teacher education. He is a co-writer of the College, Career, & Civic Life (C3): Framework for State Standards in Social Studies and co-founder of C3 Teachers. John also co-directs the New Literacies Collaborative. His work includes a focus on global learning through the Technology Enrichment Initiation and Beijing Royal School in China. He is author of the book Visualizing Elementary Social Studies Methods. For more see http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jklee and http://dhpp.org/.

Registration

Fee: $100 members / $140 nonmembers (A 20% discount is offered for this webinar series)

Registration is available for individual webinar sessions apart from the series. Please click on the title(s) above for separate registration.

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