Teachers are invited to enjoy finger foods as they learn about the numerous heritage sites in the area and what those sites have to offer to classes and field trips. Teachers will receive free passes to each of the represented heritage sites as well as classroom activities that relate to information at those sites.
Organizations represented include Champoeg State Park, Mission Mill Museum, Marion County Historical Society, Portland Art Museum, and various other heritage sites.
The Outstanding Social Studies Teacher Award for the year 2009 will be presented to one Missouri teacher at the Missouri Council for the Social Studies Spring 2009 Conference in the Lake of the Ozarks. The award will be presented to either an elementary teacher (K6), a middle school teacher (58), or a secondary teacher (712).
Sponsoring Organization
Missouri Council for the Social Studies
Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible, a teacher must be a practicing teacher in the category for which s/he is nominated and must be teaching social studies at least half-time. In addition, the nominee must demonstrate successful performance in at least five of the following six categories: Developing or using instructional materials creatively and effectively; incorporating innovative or verifiably effective instructional strategies and techniques; utilizing new scholarship from history, the social studies, and other appropriate fields; fostering a spirit of inquiry and the development of skills related to acquiring, organizing, processing, and using information and to making decisions related to both domestic and international matters; fostering the development of democratic beliefs and values and the skills needed for citizen participation in classroom, school, and community settings; and showing evidence of professional involvement through participation in such activities as workshops, curriculum development, and association activities.
Application Deadline
Award Amount
Complimentary Missouri Council for the Social Studies and National Council for the Social Studies memberships for one year, a $150 cash honorarium, full payment of the MCSS Spring Conference Registration Fee, and a plaque honoring his or her achievement.
The conference's theme is "Reeling in the Years." The Missouri Council for the Social Studies is on a mission to create effective citizens in Missouri and to celebrate Missouri diversity. Attendees at the conference can join in this celebration and experience dynamic sessions geared toward early childhood, elementary, middle, secondary, and university educators from a variety of perspectives.
The mission of the Association of Teachers of Social Studies/United Federation of Teachers is to provide a network wherein social studies educators and other related professionals can advocate for social studies education and share scholarship, information, strategies, and practices related to those issues that are both important and relevant to social studies instruction. This conference is the organization's annual meeting.
The theme for this conference is "Choosing Our Future: Defining the Role of the Social Studies. In this ever-changing world, the daunting task of preparing youth for the future lands in the hands of social studies teachers as the ones who open students' senses to the world around them. This is an absolutely critical time for the discipline of social studies. Numerous reports have shown that national and state testing has reduced the time spent on social studies in schools across America. There is vigorous debate over what should be taught in social studies classes. This annual conference will help to analyze and determine the role of social studies and the social studies curriculum in the 21st century.
This honor will be given to two educators who have demonstrated exceptional teaching abilities in the field of social studies, elementary or secondary.
Sponsoring Organization
Indiana Council for the Social Studies
Eligibility Requirements
The nominee must be a full-time teacher in Indiana and a member of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies and must have a current teaching license and be teaching that licensure area.
Application Deadline
Award Amount
A plaque, $100, and another social-studies-related prize.
The Indiana Council for the Social Studies (ICSS) will fund one grant of $300 for use as seed money for teacher-created or teacher-developed classroom projects or research in the social studies.
Sponsoring Organization
Indiana Council for the Social Studies
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must be a member of the Indiana Council for the Social Studies, be present at the ICSS convention to accept the award, and provide tangible output to the ICSS Awards and Grants committee within one year of receipt of the grant.
Application Deadline
Award Amount
$300 for use as seed money for teacher-created or teacher-developed classroom projects or research in the social studies.