Clinics

Wednesday, November 12

400

Preparing to Meet the NCSS/NCATE Teacher Education Program Standards

This clinic assists institutional preparers of NCSS/NCATE Program Reports in understanding NCSS Standards as modified for NCATE review and in developing assessments to provide data for program review and improvement.

$290

$350

9:00am–4:00pm

Thursday, November 13

401

Quality Questions and Quality Sources: The Keys to Better Examinations

This clinic focuses on two key elements in the construction of quality examinations: making the best possible multiple-choice questions and identifying/making full use of source material.

Presenter: Tim Coates

$40

$45

8:00am–3:00pm

402

Bringing Global Change into Your Classroom: Knowledge, Skills & Action

K-12 Teachers—Want to educate globally competent students? Meet national developers of curriculum resources, and learn about action opportunities to engage your students in their world. Stimulating activities; quality materials; lunch provided. Presenters: Deborah Hutton, Susan Graseck, Jim Kidder, Sheila Onuska

$40

$45

8:00am–3:00pm

403

Social Studies Alive! Building Content Literacy

Discover how the TCI Approach’s powerful structure for rich classroom instruction enables all students to maximize reading comprehension and write powerfully by integrating Language Arts and Social Studies instruction. Presenter: Nancy Bredin

$30

$35

8:00am–3:00pm

406

History Alive! Keeping High School Students Engaged in Social Studies

Challenge your high school students to think like active citizens, develop financial literacy, and debate the founding ideals of our nation. Discover innovative, practical lessons based on the TCI Approach. Presenter: Kelly Shafsky

$30

$35

8:00am–3:00pm

407

The Wiki and Primary Source Mash Up—Primary Sources 2.0

Students are online and networked. Primary sources illuminate the past for the present. Create a wiki that combines primary source analysis with 2.0 technology. Connect with students using their medium. Presenters: Peggy O’Neill-Jones, Ross Sutter

$30

$35

8:00am–3:00pm

409

Beyond Google: Effective Use of Online Resources for Teaching History

Enhance your instruction by using ABC-CLIO’s online database to support effective student research practices. Take part in primary-source-based historical inquiry, while focusing on the theme “Conflict and Compromise” Presenters: Brett Piersma, Chris Mullin

$40

$45

8:00–11:00am

410

Understanding and Addressing Cyberbullying in Schools

This workshop will increase awareness about the unique features and impact of cyberbullying and provide strategies for educators to respond effectively to cyberbullying and foster an increased culture of e-safety. Presenter: Scott Hirschfeld

$10

$15

1:00–4:00pm

411

Social Networking for Global Understanding

Learn how to use online social-networking tools and digital media to integrate global perspectives into the classroom and inspire student learning, dialogue, and leadership in local and global communities. Presenters: Emily Kornblut, Luke Walker

$10

$15

1:00–4:00pm

Teaching a Unit on Canadian-American Relations

Canada is America’s closest ally and biggest trading partner. Discover methodologies for teaching the history of Can-Am relations. Participants will receive curricula and DVDs of The Canadian History Series: 1939-2000. Presenter: Brian McClean

412

Primary-Source Materials and the Center for American History

The Center for American History’s K-12 education program provides teachers with exciting new options for curriculum development. Strategies for using primary sources to develop historical thinking will be demonstrated. Presenter: Cynthia Dubois

$20

$25

8:00–11:00am

413

Exploring U.S. History with GIS Tools

This clinic will introduce U.S. History educators to free Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and data. In this hands-on experience, participants are urged to bring their own laptop for learning. Presenter: Shannon White

$20

$25

1:00–4:00pm

415

Teaching History as Mystery

Teaching history/mystery offers opportunities to re-imagine history with all its problems, uncertainty, controversy, and puzzlement, perfectly suited for engaging youthful detectives to work out solutions by historical reasoning, with caring teachers. Presenters: Jack Zevin, David Gerwin, Jeffrey Feinberg

$30

$35

1:00–4:00pm

417

New Technologies for Enhancing Social Studies

Social studies is enhanced by integrating new technologies. Engage in stations/centers and collaborative groups that integrate new technologies, including video conferencing, digital stories, YouTube, iPods, and blogs. Handouts provided. Presenters: Cameron White, Sara McNeil, Angela Miller, Debbie Behling

$30

$35

8:00–11:00am

418

Teaching Historical Thinking Using Historicalthinkingmatters.org and Other Digital Resources

This interactive workshop will introduce participants to frameworks, tools, and resources for teaching students to think and read historically. We will simulate classroom activities, analyze student work, and explore teachinghistory.org. Presenter: Daisy Martin

$30

$35

1:00–4:00pm

420

Teaching Multiple Histories of Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War

Presenters will share strategies for teaching about Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War from multiple/global perspectives. Free materials include a DVD featuring oral histories of Pearl Harbor survivors. Presenters: Rhiannon O’Halloran-Waddell, Namji Steinemann, Lisa Waligora, Barbara Greaves

$20

$25

8:00–11:00am

421

Riding the Global Commodity Wave

How do we explain the complex forces of change driving the global commodity boom? Who wins and who loses? Will resource pressures impact the Secret Service in its investigation and protection responsibilities? Explore these critical issues for the 21st-century classroom against the backdrop of high-security banking operations and educational exhibits at the Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1809 Allen Parkway, Houston. Registrants must make their own transportation arrangements to the Bank. Continental breakfast will be served.

No Charge

8:00am–11:30am

422

Holocaust Museum Houston—Special Session

Holocaust Museum Houston’s permanent exhibit, Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers (which attendees will tour) culminates with a video of survivor testimony. To facilitate the use of survivor testimony in classrooms, the museum created a special DVD and curriculum guide titled, Where is My Family? The DVD contains survivor testimony segmented chronologically. This special NCSS session will focus on the use of Where is My Family? as well as allow teachers to meet several of the survivors whose testimony is included on the DVD.

$40

$45

9:00am–12:00pm