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.
The theme of this meeting is "Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." Sessions will include "Visions and Revisions: How to Build a High School American Studies Program," "Teaching Memoirs and Oral History in the K–12 Classroom: Identities at the Crossroads," "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Immigration," "Teaching Politics and the Politics of Teaching: Three Scholars Share Pedagogical Strategies," "The Future of American and Ethnic Studies," "Framing Visual Evidence: The Position of Visual and Popular Culture in American Studies," and "Getting Great Advising: A Workshop for Graduate Students."
This conference's theme is "Historians and Educators: Building and Assessing Partnerships." The goal of the conference is to foster a conversation among historians and education faculty about teaching history to undergraduates. This second conference will extend that conversation to the teaching of history at all levels by including sessions on building historian and K12 educator collaboration, assessing existing partnerships, preparing students for careers outside the K—12 classroom, and options for creating a history educators' consortium for professional development.
The National Preservation Conference is the premier preservation conference in the United States for professionals in preservation and allied fields, dedicated volunteers, and serious supporters. It is the single best source for information, ideas, inspiration, and contacts.
This workshop, organized by the American Historical Association and the National History Education Clearinghouse, will offer sessions including "Colonial Beginnings to Early Republic," "Teaching with Textbooks," "National History Education Clearinghouse Introduction," "FDR and ER: Using Documents to Tell Their Story," and "Many Movements: Teaching Black Freedom Struggles from WWII to the 1960s." A box lunch will be provided, accompanied by a talk, "Inverting Bloom's Taxonomy: What's Basic When Reading History?" by Sam Wineburg, Stanford University.
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
American Historical Association; National History Education Clearinghouse
The theme for this conference is Globalizing Historiography. The program includes over 200 sessions, encompassing the varied geographical, chronological, and topical interest of historians today, as well as a special series of sessions on teaching sponsored by the AHA and affiliated societies. A Teaching Workshop for the National History Education Clearinghouse will be held on Jan. 3. This workshop is specifically designed for K12 teachers and will have a variety of speakers and presentations, as well as lunch provided. Workshop registration must be done in advance.
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.