Participants in this workshop will cover content and instructional-based themes introduced during the previous summer institute. Other teachers from the regions will be invited to attend this workshop and learn about content, resource, and instructional themes covered during the year. Core participants will also share their lesson plans, work products, and best practice strategies with the other teachers.
Participants in this workshop will cover content and instructional-based themes introduced during the previous summer institute. Other teachers from the regions will be invited to attend this workshop and learn about content, resource, and instructional themes covered during the year. Core participants will also share their lesson plans, work products, and best practice strategies with the other teachers.
This workshop will consist of three morning breakout sessions, an early afternoon plenary session by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh history professor Michelle Kuhl, and time for teachers to break into smaller groups to share and exchange ideas. The morning breakout sessions will include Menasha Middle School teacher Troy Wittmann facilitating discussions on additional history teaching strategies; Wisconsin Historical Society's Michael Edmonds discussing how "Turning Points" and other online historical collections can be used for history instruction; and a history content presentation (to be determined).
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 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.
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.
The Kansas Historical Society will host the annual Kansas Council for the Social Studies conference at the Kansas Historical Society Complex and Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, KS. This year's theme, "Kansas Social Studies: Contexts, Perspectives, and Practices," has attracted a number of high-quality presenters and vendors. Internationally known photographer Jim Richardson will deliver the keynote address. Conference sessions will feature presentations on innovative instructional strategies, primary sources, teaching and learning history (U.S. Kansas and the world), government, geography, economics, as well as integrated curriculum.