|
Return to 2006 Conference Reminder Home
FCSS 49th Annual Conference Pre-Conference Workshops
Space Is Limited – Register Now!!!
Times: Generally 8:30AM -3:30PM
One-Day Workshops – October 12, 2006:
History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals (High School) #W1 $25.00
Come discover how to teach United States history using the TCI Approach, a powerful structure for rich classroom instruction. Two of TCI’s innovative teaching strategies—Writing for Understanding and Experiential Exercise—will be demonstrated using TCI’s newest curricular program, History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals. Participants will be immersed in two all-new TCI lessons, Discovering and Debating American Ideals and The Economic Collapse.
Social Studies Alive! Building Content Literacy through Social Studies (Elementary) #W2 $25.00
Learn about a new approach to developing content literacy in elementary classrooms with social studies programs that vastly improve students’ ability to read, comprehend, and remember expository text. Discover how the TCI Approach uses hands-on activities enable the teacher to work with the textbook rather than around it and support students as they transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” Leave with concrete ideas for boosting student literacy.
Geography Alive! Regions and People (Secondary) #W3 $25.00
Learn about this new innovative, hands-on program. Using the TCI Approach, Geography Alive! Regions and People creatively challenge students to use the tools of geography to view, analyze, and understand the world around them. As an additional benefit, the program has been carefully designed to build students’ content area reading skills. Incorporating the 18 National Geography Standards as well as scholarship from the National Council for Geographic Education, Geography Alive! Regions and People uses the highly acclaimed teaching practices of the TCI Approach.
Artistic Archives (K-12) #W4 $40.00
Artistic Archives is a make and take workshop, with ready made lessons and support information correlated to the Sunshine State Standards, whose objective is to demonstrate the effective use of art in our social studies curriculum so as to continue to meet the needs of our diverse student population. The expression of understood concepts through the arts is another means of demonstrating ones literate abilities.
Make Economics Alive and Applicable to Your Students’ Lives (Secondary) #W5 $25.00
Learn about free financial literacy programs available from the Florida Council on Economic Education. This pre-conference session should be an engaging financial literacy workshop that will include programs, Financial Freedom, Florida Stock Market Simulation, Governors Award Programs, Strive to Drive, Student Enterprise bank, and Money Math. Participants will also be able to participate in exciting economics simulations. Materials and lesson plans will be available. Teacher training and award opportunities will also be discussed.
Current Trends in Educational Technology (K-12) #W8 $25.00
This hands-on workshop focuses on the project-based learning with technology tools for education. Tool based software will be used to create integrated curriculum. Topics include: free educational resources, concept mapping, collaborative tools, digital story telling, digital video and podcasting.
Echoes and Reflections: A Multi Media Curriculum of the Holocaust (Secondary) #W9 $25.00
The participant will be exposed to a comprehensive program that delivers the pedagogical expertise of the Anti-Defamation League, U.S.C. Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad Yashem. This program is rich with visual history and testimony that is integrated into 10 multi-part lessons. This educational resource offers curriculum connections to contemporary issues of diversity, prejudice and bigotry, and modern day genocide.
Half-Day Workshops – October 12, 2006:
Using Reading Strategies to Unlock Secondary Social Studies Content (Secondary) #W6 $15.00
In this practical, hands-on workshop, participants will examine eight organizational patterns of text structure, identify and find example of each in social studies text, acquire and apply reading strategies appropriate for each type of text structure, and determine ways of using strategies in both instruction and assessment. Participants must bring secondary grade-level social studies text to use during the workshop.
Breaking the code: Linking FCAT to the Teaching of Social Studies and Ethnic Studies #W7 $15.00
The purpose of the session is to provide participants with theoretical and practical strategies that will enable the teacher to understand the dynamics involved in the linking FCAT strategies to the teaching Social Studies including African American History and, Ethnic Studies.
The participants will;
- Understand three theories of integration of Ethnic Studies
- Analyze 12 key elements of the FCAT.
- Critique 12 strategies for Teaching FCAT strategies
- Focus on one case study for curriculum application of ethnic studies.
- Based on one case study apply social studies application strategies that prepare students for the FCAT.
- Other experiential processes.
|
