Clinics

PRE-CONFERENCE CLINICS

9:00AM-4:00PM
Preparing NCSS/NCATE Program Reports-Clinic for Program Report Writers
Workshop to prepare participants to review teacher preparation programs in social studies or related disciplines and to update current reviewers in applying NCSS Standards for the NCATE Program Review Process.
Presenter: Alberta Dougan
Fee: $300 for members, $360 for nonmembers

Full-Day Clinics

9:00AM-4:00PM
Preparing Youth to Become Agents of Change: Utilizing Youth Voice
Explore and celebrate the intersection of service learning and civic learning and engagement. Project Citizen provides effective practice of skills necessary for youth to become participatory citizens and change agents.
Presenters: Janis Adams Kyser, Tennessee Center for Civic Learning and Engagement; Barbara Ector, Tennessee Center for Civic Learning and Engagement; Jim David, Tennessee Center for Civic Learning and Engagement
Fee: $25 for members, $30 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
Reading and Writing for Understanding in the Elementary Classroom
Discover how the TCI Approach brings social studies alive using lessons that demonstrate practical and concrete ways to help even the youngest learners succeed through integrating reading and language arts.
Presenter: TCI Trainer
Fee: $25 for members, $30 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
Making Social Studies Dynamic for High School Learners
Explore TCI’s dynamic multiple intelligence teaching strategies for high school students. Immerse yourself in lessons that turn lectures into a participative experiences as students view and interpret visuals and key concepts.
Presenter: TCI Trainer
Fee: $25 for members, $30 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
The Muslim Mosaic: Discovering the Diversity of Belief and Experience
Explore diverse Muslim communities and beliefs through unique entry points, including Muslim culinary cultures, interactive Google Earth explorations of religious sites, film, and discussions with Muslims from different perspectives.
Presenters: Alta Schwartz, Middle East Institute, Georgia State University; Barbara Petzen, Middle East Policy Council; Rafih Benjelloun, Imperial Fez Restaurant
Fee: $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
Mentor Training Workshop for Retired or Soon-To-Be Retired Educators
This full day clinic will train retired or soon to be retired teachers to be mentors for new teachers in the field of social studies.
Presenter: Beth Ratway, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Fee: $10 for members and nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
Primary Sources 2.0 – Collaborating, Investigating, Inquiring, Learning
Web 2.0 creates a collaborative online learning space. Primary sources cultivate higher order thinking skills. Combine American Memory primary sources with Web 2.0 to interact with the past using today’s technology.
Presenter: Peggy O'Neill-Jones, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Fee: $25 for members, $30 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
21st Century Requirements: Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning
Social Studies—the place for learning 21st Century skills. Use the TIEL model to create curriculum that helps your students develop intellectual skills and emotional learning through social studies instruction.
Presenter: Christy Folsom, Lehman College, City University of New York
Fee: $25 for members, $30 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
Using Music, Television, and Film to Teach the Civil Rights Movement
Participants will analyze numerous songs from several eras, feature films, and television shows that can be used in the classroom to teach the civil rights movement.
Presenter: Stephen Armstrong, West Hartford Public Schools
Fee: $25 for members, $30 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
The Top Ten: Engaging Teaching Strategies Guaranteed to Work from Upper Elementary through Graduate School
Strengthen your social studies teaching with ten of the most engaging, motivating, and practical teaching strategies. These field-tested techniques work with content from various disciplines and are adaptable from elementary through graduate school. They actively involve students in discussion, reading, writing, concept formation, and critical thinking. In addition, over a dozen "mini-strategies" will be included that can be used at any point during a lesson to engage students in processing what they are learning. Presenters will model these strategies with authentic, multi-disciplinary, hands-on examples, all involving inquiry and interaction.
Presenters: Geoffrey Scheurman, University of Wisconsin—River Falls; Michael Yell, Hudson Middle School
Fee: $25 for members, $30 for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:00PM
Archaeology, Citizenship, and Effective Instruction
Archaeology provides an engaging way to teach cultural understanding, citizenship, and democratic processes while integrating social studies, science, and literacy. Participants will experience classroom-ready instructional materials through an interactive workshop.
Presenter: Jeanne Moe, Project Archaeology
Fee: $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers

9:00AM-3:00PM
Your Classroom: A Civics Laboratory for the 21st Century
Off-site clinic at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
This clinic introduces a systematic model for promoting classroom engagement with controversial public issues. Participants will depart with knowledge, skills, newfound confidence, and a renewed commitment to teaching democratic processes. Attendees will receive a notebook with extensive resources, including copies of many original documents, and take a tour of the newly renovated Museum.
Presenters: Kim E. Barbieri, Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum; David E. Procter, Kansas State University; Kahlil G. Chism, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Fee: $30 for members, $35 for nonmembers

10:30AM-4:30PM
The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum
The Breman Museum is proud to be hosting a Clinic for Social Studies teachers. The fee will cover the clinic, round trip transportation and a kosher lunch. In keeping with the theme of the 89th NCSS National Conference, the Breman will offer participants a full day of Holocaust programming that includes docent-led tours of the museum’s Holocaust Gallery and hearing the personal stories of survivors of forced labor and concentration camps. Participants will benefit from leading educators in Holocaust education who will share teaching strategies and recommendations for materials for use in grades 5-12.
Fee: $36 for members and nonmembers

9:00AM-12:00PM
Critical Themes of War and Peace
The session will explore critical themes of war and peace, conflict and cooperation, based on ideas and exhibits the US Institute of Peace is developing for its Public Education Center.
Presenters: Raina Kim, United States Institute of Peace; Jeff Helsing, United States Institute of Peace; David Smith, United States Institute of Peace; Peter Weinberger, United States Institute of Peace; Lauren Van Meter, United States Institute of Peace
Fee: $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers

9:00AM-12:00PM
Curriculum Connections: Integrating Social Justice Themes into the K-12 Curriculum
This experiential workshop will introduce educators to the methodology and content of the Anti-Defamation League’s Curriculum Connections, a collection of original lesson plans that integrate social justice themes into K-12 curricula.
Presenter: Scott Hirschfeld, Anti-Defamation League
Fee: $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers

9:00AM-12:00PM
Teaching Social Studies for Social Responsibility: Concepts, Perspectives, & Practices
This session presents material from a curriculum handbook being developed to provide teachers and administrators with concepts, perspectives, and practices essential to teaching social studies for social justice/social responsibility.
Presenter: Gloria Alter, Beloit College
Fee: $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers

1:00-4:00PM
Spice Up Your Psych!
We promise that this clinic will be worth your time and worth the effort to arrive in Atlanta one day early! Join us to obtain amazing teacher tested activities, demonstrations, and projects to spice up regular and Advanced Placement Psychology classes.
Presenters: Daria Schaffeld, Prospect High School; Joe Geiger, Carl Sandburg High School; Lindsay Hackman-Cushing, Buffalo Grove High School
Fee: $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers

1:00-4:00PM
Large Room, Single Beds Wanted: Designing Common Curricula that Consider Unique Perspectives
Contribute to skill/content goals of an historic joint Canada-US curriculum project. Discover connections and new perspectives that reach beyond our borders. Interact with NCSS-partnered designers useful resources to share.
Presenters: Mike Clare, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; Brian McClean, Epoch Multimedia
Fee: $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers

1:00-4:00PM
Incorporating Latinos in American History
Latinos have been a part of American history since 1492 but are grossly underrepresented in American history textbooks. This largely untold story is an essential part of the American story.
Presenter: Cynthia DeBois, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin
Fee: $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers

1:00-5:00PM
Insight from Inside the Federal Reserve
Off-Site Clinic at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Learn all about the Federal Reserve from an insider's perspective.  The workshop will cover history of U.S. central banking, monetary policy, and recent Fed actions in the credit and
financial markets.
Fee: $3.50 for round-trip MARTA fare between Georgia World Congress Center and FRB Atlanta

1:00-3:00PM
Kingian Nonviolence Orientation
Off-Site Clinic at The King Center
Participants will learn the overall concept of Kingian Nonviolence, a systematic framework of both conceptual principles and pragmatic strategies to reduce violence and promote positive peace in a community. The philosophy and application of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be examined.
Fee: $30 for members, $30 for nonmembers