AHA and NHEC K-12 Teacher Workshop

Description

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
Phone number
202-544-2422
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Duration
Eight and a half hours

American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Description

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 K–12 teachers and will have a variety of speakers and presentations, as well as lunch provided. Workshop registration must be done in advance.

Sponsoring Organization
American Historical Association
Location
New York, NY
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Mission Mill Museum Teacher's Fair: Bringing History to Life

Description

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.

Sponsoring Organization
Mission Mill Museum
Target Audience
preK-12
Start Date
Duration
Two and a half hours

There is No Place like Home: Integrating Local History into the 4th-11th Grade Social Studies Program

Description

This conference will cover topics including "Why Study Local History?," "NYS Standards and Local History," "How Can the Lower Hudson Valley Be Used as a Resource?," "Transportation and the Westchester Ecology," "Hudson River Art: Window into the American Culture," "Queen City of the Sound," "Integrating Local History Resources into the Classroom, The Somers Experience," "The Mourning Bell: The Bell President-Elect Lincoln Rung," and "The Queen City and the Classroom."

Sponsoring Organization
Westchester/Lower Hudson Council for the Social Studies; Manhattanville College
Contact email
Location
Purchase, NY
Contact name
Feinman, Peter
Phone number
1 914-933-0440
Start Date

Missouri Council for the Social Studies Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year Award

Description

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 (K–6), a middle school teacher (5–8), or a secondary teacher (7–12).

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.
Location
MO

Missouri Council for the Social Studies Conference

Description

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.

Sponsoring Organization
Missouri Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
Lake of the Ozarks, MO
Contact name
Moncure, Megan
Phone number
314-692-9702
Start Date
End Date
Submission Deadline
Registration Deadline

Annual Greater Metropolitan New York Social Studies Conference

Description

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.

Sponsoring Organization
Association Teachers of Social Studies
Contact email
Location
New York, NY
Contact name
Dytell, Robert (email)
Contact Title
Conference Chairperson
Phone number
212-510-6389
Start Date
Submission Deadline

Arkansas Curriculum Conference

Description

This theme's conference is "Professional Development Worth Sharing."

Sponsoring Organization
Arkansas Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
Little Rock, AR
Contact name
Edwards, Kimble
Contact Title
Program Co-chair
Start Date
End Date
Registration Deadline

Maine Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference

Description

This conference's theme is "Social Studies on the Front Burner: Resources and Instructional Strategies for the 21st Century."

Sponsoring Organization
Maine Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
Augusta, ME
Contact name
Nerbak, Glenn
Start Date
Registration Deadline

Connecticut Council for the Social Studies Fall Conference

Description

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.

Sponsoring Organization
Connecticut Council for the Social Studies
Contact email
Location
New Britain, CT
Contact name
DeLuco, Beth
Contact Title
Conference Chair
Start Date
Registration Deadline