Strengthening Your Instruction with Thoughtful, Engaging, Practical Teaching Strategies
Submitted by David Bailor on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 1:30pmMake 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.
Mass Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
Submitted by David Bailor on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 1:23pmExamine a dark chapter in American history through first-person stories, historic photographs, and government documents with Tom Ikeda, Densho’s founding Executive Director who has conducted over 200 oral histories with Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. --> read more »
Teaching Relevant Chinese Histories: Canada, the United States and Mexico
Submitted by David Bailor on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 1:01pmThis clinic will address historic issues and make contemporary connections to Chinese experiences in the Americas. Speakers will provide perspectives on U.S. and diasporic histories, multicultural education, civil rights, race relations, voting rights, law, and Chinese culture. --> read more »
Outlines of Buddhism in East Asia
Submitted by David Bailor on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 12:56pmParticipants will interact with primary sources in Buddhist arts, literature, and history that connect to major themes in social studies, such as the transmission of ideas between cultures and their local adaptations, the expression of values and beliefs in art and literature, the impact of religion on local societies and economies, and the role of religion in the contemporary world. --> read more »
United States Mint: Teaching about and through U.S. Coins
Submitted by David Bailor on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 8:43amThe United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change website, www.usmint.gov/kids, offers FREE K-12 cross-curricular educational materials, and introduces students to the history of the coins they carry. H.I.P. Pocket Change, it's "History In your Pocket."
Using Visual Aids to Illustrate Key Concepts in Geography
Submitted by David Bailor on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 12:31pmTeachers will learn how to implement an interactive notebook, and use videos, audio clips, maps, and other graphic organizers to help illustrate and teach themes in geography.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Submitted by David Bailor on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 9:26amThe author will discuss reasons and research for writing Thomas Jefferson: Inquiry History for Daring Delvers. The volume follows presentations made relating to the historical fiction The Others at Monticello.
NYC Global Education Coalition: Non-Profits Building Globally Competent Students
Submitted by David Bailor on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 9:25amThis session will provide participants with resources and strategies to build global competency shared by non-profits in the NYC Global Education Coalition.
Transforming Teaching with Textless Tools
Submitted by David Bailor on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 9:48pmTired of using that textbook for yet another Section 1 Review? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone? Move forward and learn to build a textless curriculum with a collaborative platform for teachers.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anyone but oneself.
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