Pre-Conference Clinics

PRE-CONFERENCE CLINICS

Seattle offers a wealth of resources for the social studies classroom, and NCSS pre-conference clinics offer many options to take advantage through in-depth, hands-on sessions. When you attend a clinic, you will gain practical knowledge and skills you can apply immediately in your classroom.

Pre-conference clinics are focused, content-based programs conducted by well-known professional development providers, NCSS members, and prominent Seattle institutions.

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: Leah Engelhardt
Fee: $300 for members, $360 for nonmembers

Several Seattle-based organizations are generously hosting clinics, on a variety of topics of interest and benefit to social studies educators. We encourage you to review this list and consider attending one or more of these outstanding offerings.

8:30AM-12:30PM
Essential Seattle: A Historic Exploration of the Emerald City
Host: Museum of History & Industry
The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) invites you to enjoy breakfast during an introduction to Seattle history, followed by a walking tour concluding with a preview of MOHAI’s new facility.
Presenters: Tara McCauley, Helen Divjak, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA
Fee: $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers

8:30AM-PM
Window to the Circumpolar World: Global Interdependence in the Arctic
Host: Consul General of Canada, Seattle
A new phenomenon is emerging in the Arctic. Indigenous peoples are playing a key role in determining the future of the region influencing global relations, social justice and environmental sustainability.
Presenters: ,
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

AM-PM
Seattle Center Celebrates 50 Years!
Host: KCTS9 Seattle
Visit Seattle Center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World’s Fair! Experience hands-on history through projects developed especially for this event: book, curriculum, documentary, theater, and docent-led tours.
Presenters: ,
Fee: $ for members, $ for nonmembers

9:00AM-1:00PM
Pike Place Market: A Scavenger Hunt
Veteran teachers will provide a hands-on tour, content connections and a scavenger hunt in America’s premier market. You’ll be surprised at all the places and sights in a three-story market.
Presenters: Paul Nagel, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA; Shirley Lomax, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

AM-PM
Outlines of Buddhism in East Asia
Host: Seattle Asian Art Museum
Fun, hands-on interactive sessions introduce themes of cultural transmission and adaptation, continuity and change in East Asian Buddhism from the early beginnings to the present. Free curriculum resources!
Presenters: ,
Fee: $ for members, $ for nonmembers

9:00AM-4:30PM
Mass Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII
Host: Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
Thinking routines--developed by Harvard’s Visible Thinking Project—will guide the analysis of photographs, oral histories, documents, newspaper articles, and museum exhibits to prompt the examination of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Thinking routines are easy and powerful tools to use with a variety of materials in the classroom. Historical content and context seldom found in textbooks will also be provided. This clinic will be at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (The Wing), located in Seattle’s historic Japantown. Participants will get a behind the scenes look at an apartment, a hotel, and a store preserved to recall life in the 1940’s. This clinic includes bus transportation from the conference center, a hands-on workshop, teacher resource CD, lunch, and a museum tour.
Presenters: Tom Ikeda, Janet Hayakawa, Densho, Seattle, WA; Char Mano-Shen,Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA
Fee: $40 for members, $45 for nonmembers

AM-PM
Teaching Relevant Chinese Histories: Canada, the United States and Mexico
Host: Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
Historical educators will provide diasporic perspectives and teaching tools on Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the Chinese in Canada, U.S. Pacific Northwest and Deep South, and southern Mexico.
Presenters: ,
Fee: $ for members, $ for nonmembers

10:00AM-4:00PM
Machiavelli on Monday, FRIED by Friday!
Regain 5-9 hours of instruction time each week! Dramatically increase standardized test scores! Discover proven, easy to implement, techniques & strategies in this hands-on workshop. CEUs and college credit available.
Presenters: Elizabeth Pozzanghera, Center for Teacher Effectiveness, Spokane Valley, WA; Agnes Furst, Another Way Consulting, Tumwater, WA
Fee: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers

10:00AM-4:00PM
Strengthening Your Instruction with Thoughtful, Engaging, Practical Teaching Strategies
Make every lesson an engaging lesson. In this clinic you will learn a dozen motivating and practical teaching strategies that will foster active engagement and enhanced thinking in your students.
Presenters: Mike Yell, Hudson Middle School, Hudson, WI; Geoffrey Scheurman, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, WI
Fee: $25 for members; $35 for nonmembers

10:00AM-4:00PM
Strategies for Becoming a Better Assessor of Student Learning
Through hands-on activities attendees will learn of better ways to decide what to assess, how to assess it, and how to make better assessments. Attendees will receive extensive take-home materials.
Presenter: Tim Coates, University of Alberta/Alberta Education, Edmonton, AB
Fee: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers

10:00AM-4:00PM
Ten Technology Tips for Bringing the World Alive
Join TCI to discover strategies and technology tips that will help you motivate students to make sense of the world around them--from past to present.
Presenter: Bert Bower, Brian Thomas, TCI
Fee: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers

10:00AM-4:00PM
"A Problem from Hell" Revisited: Genocide Prevention Today
How does one approach the subject of genocide? What lessons should be learned? Study both the history and current issues surrounding genocide through discussion and activities suitable for the classroom.
Presenter: Sara Cohan, The Genocide Education Project, San Francisco, CA; Mary Johnson, Facing History and Ourselves, Boston, MA; Susan Graseck, Choices Program--Brown University, Providence, RI; Kelley Szany, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center, Skokie, IL
Fee: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers

10:00AM-4:00PM
Weaving an Interconnected World: Islamic Trade and Cultural Networks
How do cowboys, computers, and cuisine all connect in the pre-modern Islamic world? Travel with us along pathways of pre-modern trade from China to Europe to America to find out!
Presenter: Barbara Petzen, Middle East Policy Council, Washington, DC; Susan Douglass, Georgetown University, Washington DC; Chris Rose, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Fee: $25 for members, $35 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
“Sync” and Swim: Successful Triangulation of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Join us as we explore innovative strategies to successfully “sync” curriculum, instruction and assessment, fostering students' knowledge, skills and understandings on their journey to responsible citizenship.
Presenter: Cheryl Przbylla, Dwayne Girard, Nathalie Langstaedtler, Alberta Education, Edmonton, AB
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
Creating E-Books that Matter. Here's Everything You Need to Know
Janet Wong (janetwong.com) has written e-books on endangered animals, political awareness, and other social issues. Join her in a step-by-step workshop on publishing your own e-book. Come ready to create!
Presenter: Janet Wong, Princeton, NJ
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
Smithsonian's Let's Do History Tour
Join National Museum of American History educators for an interactive, multimedia supported presentation that showcases our interdisciplinary approach to teaching with a focus on everyday objects, people-centered stories, and dialogue.
Presenters: Naomi Coquillon, Matt Hoffman, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
Engaging ELLs in Meaningful Social Studies and Literacy Learning
Using narrative, students participate in learning experiences from the viewpoint of a character to construct personal understandings about subject matter and apply literacy skills within a meaningful context. Curriculum provided.
Presenters: Margit McGuire, Seattle University, Seattle, WA; Bronwyn Cole, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
The DBQ Project: A Solution to the Common Core Standards
Aligning with Common Core, The DBQ Project sharpens students’ critical thinking, reading and evidence-base writing. The Project’s method allows all students, grades 4-12, to excel in the sophisticated DBQ experience.
Presenters: Mollie Hackett, Beth Montgomery, The DBQ Project, Evanston, IL
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
Teaching World and U.S. History as Mystery
Classroom ready materials teach US, world history as uncertain problems based on primary & secondary sources: images, words, music, numbers riddled with bias, confusion, controversy to motivate youthful detectives.
Presenters: Jack Zevin, David Gerwin, Queens College/City University of New York, New York, NY
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
Chief Standing Bear's Footsteps: Voices from Our Past, Today
The investigation of Chief Standing Bear’s journey and the plight of the Poncas comes alive with engaging participant experiences using media, digital technology and historical habits of mind.
Presenters: Cindy Renner, Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NE; Larry Wright, Lincoln, NE
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers

2:00-5:00PM
Humanity in the Midst of War: Empowering Tomorrow's Global Citizens
War is much more complicated than a video game. Give your students the skills to grapple with global issues and explore humanitarian responses to conflict. Free, standards-aligned, ready-to-use resources provided.
Presenters: Alicia Guajardo, James Lane, American Red Cross, Washington, DC; Joanne Dufour, Antioch University, Seattle, WA
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers