FCSS 50th Annual Conference Pre-Conference Workshops
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Times: Generally 8:30AM -3:30PM
One-Day Workshops – October 11, 2007:
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.
Artistic Archives (K-12) #W3 $25.00
Margaret Collier & Mary Cook, Co-Presenters
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.
Interdisciplinary Teaching: Integrating Economics into American History (Secondary) #W4 $25.00
Sarah Arteaga, Presenter
Come discover an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the economics of American history! Teachers will receive content training in the history and role of the central bank in the American economy and the impact of political figures and events surrounding important economic experiences in American history. Federal Reserve Bank economists and educators will train participants. Experience active-learning activities that can be used in the classroom and receive free lesson plans and resources for the classroom. Learn about available teacher training and award opportunities.
Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (K-12) #W5 $25.00
Jennifer Seitz, Presenter
Project Learning Tree has integrated social studies, science, and environmental studies to investigate your local community. The Places We Live module has students conduct investigations focused on how local environmental issues are linked to social and economic changes in their community. Workshop attendees will participate in several hands-on inquiry-based activities that examine environmental issues in their communities. Each participant will receive the guide which includes background information, inquiry-based activities and a series of supplemental appendices.
Echoes and Reflections: A Multi Media Curriculum of the Holocaust (Secondary) #W6 $25.00
Alyse Vilarello, Presenters
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.
Participants receive a multimedia curriculum which includes primary source materials such as photographs, artwork, diary entries letters, poems, maps and government documents as well as 21/2 hours of visual testimony by Holocaust survivors, rescuers and other eyewitnesses. You can visit www.echoesandreflections.org for more information.
Problem Based Economics (Secondary) #W7 $25.00
Fred Dorsett, Presenter
PBE is a set of materials and a teaching methodology that uses realistic dilemmas to teach economic concepts. This motivates students to learn economics content that can sometimes seem dry and abstract. The basic approach of PBE is to present students with an economic problem that has more than one correct solution. Students work in groups to solve the problem by doing research, working collaboratively, and acquiring knowledge of economic concepts and principles. The material includes seven units in two binders. Each unit contains directions for the teacher on how to conduct the unit, reproducible handouts for students, content explanations for the teacher, and tests and rubrics to assess students. Two units also have video and audiotapes. Participants will experience the lessons and receive the complete binder of materials
Current Trends in Educational Technology (K-12) #W8 $25.00
This hands-on workshop focuses on the project-based learning with technology tools for education. Tool based software will be used to create integrated curriculum. Topics include: free educational resources, concept mapping, collaborative tools, digital story telling, digital video and podcasting.
Florida Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy (K-12) #W9 $25.00
The Florida Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, Inc. seeks to improve the personal financial literacy of Floridians by focusing on the states youth by promoting and teaching personal finance skills so that individuals can make informed, responsible financial decisions, with special emphasis on its youth, kindergarten through young adults.
Florida History Fair from A to Z:
A Simple Solution to Social Studies Education (Secondary) #W10 $25.00
The Florida History Fair, an affiliate of National History Day, strengthens the teaching and learning of social studies and complements FCAT training for students. This workshop will introduce the History Day program and process; offer presentations by experts about creating History Day exhibits, documentaries, performances, and historical papers; explain and explore primary sources; and demonstrate how participation in the Florida History Fair can enhance student achievement on assessment exams.
Half-Day Workshops – October 11, 2007:
Reading Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom (Secondary) #W11 $15.00
Judith Irvin, Presenter 8:30am –12.00pm
Grounded in research and theory, this session will introduce participants to several effective literacy learning practices that help students learn from social studies text. The foundations of literacy learning will be presented and several strategies that help students with literacy and content learning will be demonstrated.
