NCSS Summer Workshops 2008
 
NCSS presents three Summer Workshops, designed to strengthen classroom techniques. These workshops take place around the nation during the summer months, and feature in-depth, hands-on information.
Note: Arrangements for hotels and meals for the PASS and Teaching with Documents workshops are the participant’s responsibility.
1 Reading Strategies to Unlock the Social Studies
What are the important reading strategies for the secondary social studies classroom? What are the organizational patterns of text structure that can help unlock the social studies content? What impact do they have on planning, delivery, and assessment of social studies content?
This practical, hands-on workshop for secondary-level educators will focus on strategies and approaches that help students with nonfiction reading in the social studies. Eight organizational patterns of text structure will be examined, including description, cause and effect, compare / contrast, problem/solution, concept definition, sequence, proposition / support, and goal / action / outcome. Participants will identify and find examples of each in social studies texts, acquire and apply reading strategies appropriate for each type of text structure, and determine ways of using strategies in both instruction and assessment. In addition, participants will acquire and apply other strategies that help students unlock social studies content in the secondary classroom, including vocabulary strategies, anticipation guides, summarizing, synthesizing and evaluating information, making inferences, and making predictions. Participants are asked to bring a grade-level text to use during the workshop.
Register for Reading Strategies to Unlock the Social Studies
Peggy Altoff, K-12 Supervisor of Social Studies, District 11 Colorado Springs, CO, and NCSS past-president, will lead the workshop. Contact Peggy with questions at altofmm@d11.org.
The workshop will be held July 14–16, 2008, 2008, 8:30am–4:00pm (daily) at Goucher College, Towson, MD (outside Baltimore). She would be happy to answer any questions at altofmm@d11.org.
The fee of $675 includes room for three nights (July 13–15),board (dinner on July 13 through lunch on July 16), and course materials.
Two graduate credit hours will be offered through Goucher College for an additional $200. To receive credit participants must: 1) attend and participate fully and 2) complete and turn in a written assignment within two weeks after the course ends. Specific information about the credit requirement, including registration materials, will be distributed on the opening morning of the workshop. At that time, those interested in obtaining graduate credit will need a check payable to the Goucher College for the above amount.
2 Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS): A Teacher Training Institute
Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS) is a professional development program that trains social studies teachers in curriculum design, assessment, and instruction in a standards-based environment. This institute will provide participants with the materials and expertise necessary to lead their own PASS training workshops in their schools and school districts.
Participants will learn about PASS criteria and standards for curriculum design, assessment construction, and effective instruction. In small learning communities, participants will examine videotaped K-12 vignettes of teaching and examples of curriculum and assessment tasks, and create examples of curriculum and assessment of their own to share with their learning community.
PASS materials consist of videotapes, a general manual outlining PASS principles and specialized manuals for different grade levels. There are three different PASS sets—elementary, middle and high school. Participants will receive a free PASS set at the level of their choice (value: $279.00), and deep discounts will be offered on other sets.
PASS is an effective means of training pre-service as well as in-service teachers. This institute will interest NCSS members at all educational levels.
Register for PASS Teacher Training Institute
Joseph A. Braun, Jr. serves as the Coordinator of Professional Development for the National Council for the Social Studies and Professor Emeritus of Education at Illinois State University. He is also a past member of the NCSS Board of Directors. He will be happy to answer questions at 831-869-9865 (phone) or via e-mail at jabraun@ilstu.edu.
Historic Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California will host the institute from July 21–25, 2008. The cost is $675, which includes snacks and lunch during the institute, PASS training materials, and continuing education credit. Other meals and hotel accommodations are not included. The closest hotel to the university is Candlewood Suites (408-241-9305).
3 Teaching with Documents and Works of Art: An Integrated Approach
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), and National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) present “Teaching with Documents and Works of Art: An Integrated Approach.” This two-and-a-half day workshop will provide a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, collaborative work, and analysis of documents and works of art to introduce teachers to the holdings of the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Workshop attendees will participate in and develop classroom activities that utilize both visual images and primary source documents as teaching tools in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. The content focus will be on Westward Expansion and the Civil War.
The education departments at NARA and SAAM have been working in successful partnership with educators and students for decades to promote the use of primary sources, in a variety of media, as teaching tools.
Teachers may read more about the workshop at americanart.si.edu/education/programs/professional_dev.cfm
www.archives.gov/education/growing-professionally.html
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Lee Ann Potter is Head of Education and Volunteer Programs at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). She has authored many articles in Social Education. See the Teaching With Documents collection, which is free online to NCSS members, at www.socialstudies.org/twd. She would be happy to answer any questions about the workshop at leeann.potter@nara.gov.
Elizabeth K. Eder is National Education Program Manager at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) She would also be happy to answer questions about the workshop at EderEK@si.edu.
The Summer workshop will be held at the National Archives Building and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC on July 23–25, 2008. The cost is $200 per participant.
Cancellation Policy
If you are unable to attend a program for which you have registered, you may notify us 21 days prior to the start of the meeting. Cancellations are subject to a $20 cancellation fee. You may also send a nonregistered substitute in your place at no cost, who will be required to present your registration confirmation and written authorization.
Important Note:
Registration is on a prepaid, first-come first-served basis. Workshops may be cancelled due to insufficient registration. Please do not make travel plans until NCSS confirms the workshops will take place
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