Best Practices: Powerpoint at Its Best

Description

This training will provide participants with fun, interactive ways to use PowerPoint and other visual aids as educational tools. Participants will engage in activities that will encourage student participation and keep students attentive. The activities demonstrated in this training will cater to all styles of learning.

Contact name
Castro, Jennifer (email)
Contact email
Jennifer.Castro@azflse.org
Sponsoring Organization
Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education
Phone number
602-340-7366
Target Audience
5-12
Start Date
Cost
$125
Contact Title
Professional Development Manager
Duration
Eight and a half hours
Website
http://azflse.org/academy/eventdescription.cfm?eventid=679

Arizona Tales Teacher Workshop: Using Literature to Teach Arizona History and Geography, K-8

Description

This workshop will go over 15 lesson plans covering the desert environment, Native American culture, Mexican culture, ranch life, World War II, and more. Supplementary literature books are included in the registration fee.

Contact name
Spargo-Guerrero, Emily
Contact email
esg@azhs.gov
Sponsoring Organization
Arizona Historical Society
Phone number
1 520-617-1153
Target Audience
K-8
Start Date
Cost
$60 ($50 for Arizona Historical Society members)
Course Credit
Provides Continuing Education Credits.
Duration
Four hours
Website
http://arizonahistoricalsociety.org/news_and_events.asp

Florida Council for the Social Studies Teaching American History Award

Description

The purpose of this award is to recognize and celebrate a Florida teacher of history who encourages an appreciation and respect for history, involves students in the historical process, and evidences mastery of the subject matter.

Sponsoring Organization
Pearson Prentice Hall; Florida Council for the Social Studies
Eligibility Requirements

The applicant must currently be teaching history in a Florida elementary, middle, or high school. The winner must be available to attend both the annual conference and awards dinner.

Application Deadline
Award Amount
$500 cash prize, free annual conference registration, and publication of lesson plan in Trends and Issues.
Website
http://www.fcss.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Awards.American_History
Location
FL

Annual Florida Council for the Social Studies Conference

Description

This conference's theme is "Literate Citizens Vote!" The conference will feature more than 70 breakout sessions, several pre-conference workshops, and more than 40 exhibitors.

Website
http://www.fcss.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Conference.Home
Sponsoring Organization
Florida Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
egolfr@pcsb.org
Location
St. Petersburg, FL
Contact name
Egolf, Ralph
Contact Title
Conference Coordinator
Phone number
1 727-822-0041
Start Date
End Date
Registration Deadline

Long Island Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference

Description

The theme for this conference is "Democracy, Diversity and the Social Studies Classroom." Topics covered will include "Analyzing Elections in American History," "Social Studies, History and the Elementary Classroom," "Teaching About Genocide and the Holocaust," "Technology in the Social Studies Classroom," "The Scoring Process on AP Examinations," "Literacy Strategies in Social Studies Classes," "Teaching about Foreign Policy and Presidential Decision Making," "Writing in the Social Studies," and others.

Website
http://www.licss.org/
Sponsoring Organization
Long Island Council for the Social Studies
Location
Melville, NY
Start Date
Registration Deadline

White House Fellowships

Description

Founded in 1964, the White House Fellows program is America's most prestigious program for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional young men and women firsthand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. White House Fellows typically spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants to senior White House Staff, the Vice President, Cabinet Secretaries and other top-ranking government officials. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with renowned leaders from the private and public sectors, and trips to study U.S. policy in action both domestically and internationally. Fellowships are awarded on a strictly non-partisan basis.

Sponsoring Organization
The White House
Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and have completed their undergraduate education and be working in their chosen professions. Employees of the federal government are not eligible unless they are career military personnel. There are no formal age restrictions. However, the fellowship program was created to give selected Americans the experience of government service early in their careers.

Application Deadline
Website
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fellows
Location
Washington, D.C.

Annual Meeting of Virginia Social Studies Educators

Description

This year's theme is "21st-century Virginia: A Time of Change." The theme reflects educators are about in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It allows the conference to offer a variety of topics which will reflect a focus on the breadth of Virginian heritage and the unique position of Virginia's founding and development as a society. The conference will offer sessions on a variety of topics of interest to Virginia's social studies educators.

Website
http://www.vcss.org/annualconference.htm
Sponsoring Organization
Virginia Council for the Social Studies
Location
Richmond, VA
Contact name
Neylan, Diane
Phone number
1 804-747-9608
Start Date
End Date

Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies Conference

Description

This conference will include a variety of lectures, clinics, and other opportunities for educators to share ideas and learn new techniques related to their profession.

Website
http://www.pcssonline.org/pcss_conference.htm
Sponsoring Organization
Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
map44@verizon.net
Location
Gettysburg, PA
Contact name
Previte, Mark
Phone number
1 814-696-7990
Start Date
End Date
Registration Deadline

Middle States Regional Conference on the Social Studies

Description

The theme of this conference is "One Earth, One World."

Website
http://www.mscss.net/MSCSSwebsitenewmainpage.html
Sponsoring Organization
Middle States Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
msanelli@kutztown.edu
Location
Salisbury, MD
Contact name
Sanelli, Maria
Contact Title
Conference Chair
Start Date
End Date
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