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Be sure and register for the 2016 Best Practices in Social Studies Institute, June 20-21 at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines. The Institute is entirely FREE to attend for any K-12 social studies teacher and license renewal credit will be available.
Some highlights of the Institute include:
- Overview of process for creating new draft Social Studies standards
- Statewide social studies professional development for elementary teachers on building literacy in social studies
- Teaching the Holocaust through Night. This session includes a Holocaust survivor.
- Using the Medal of Honor Foundation curriculum to teach using oral histories from Medal of Honor recipients. This includes all of their free curriculum.
- Technology integration sessions
- Great resources for teaching psychology
- Iowa history sessions such as Iowa Prisoner of War camps and the Underground Railroad in Iowa
- Economics resources from the Iowa Council on Economic Education
- Using State Historical Museum resources
View the at-a-glance schedule
Register here
For more information, contact Stefanie Rosenberg Wager with the Iowa Department of Education at (515) 725-7842.
K-12 social studies teachers are invited to attend the 2016 Best Practices in Social Studies Institute, June 20-21 at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines. The Institute is entirely FREE to attend and license renewal credit will be available.
Time will be devoted during the event to discuss the process for writing the draft of new social studies standards. Elementary teachers will also have the opportunity to attend the statewide elementary social studies professional development. In addition, sessions are planned for history content, a Supreme Court update, psychology, technology and much more.
View the at-a-glance schedule here.
Register here by May 10.
For more information, contact Stefanie Rosenberg Wager with the Iowa Department of Education at (515) 725-7842.
K-12 social studies teachers are invited to attend the 2016 Best Practices in Social Studies Institute, June 20-21 at the State Historical Museum in Des Moines. The Institute is entirely FREE to attend and license renewal credit will be available.
Time will be devoted during the event to discuss the process for writing the draft of new social studies standards. Elementary teachers will also have the opportunity to attend the statewide elementary social studies professional development. In addition, sessions are planned for history content, a Supreme Court update, psychology, technology and much more.
View the at-a-glance schedule here.
Register here by May 10.
For more information, contact Stefanie Rosenberg Wager with the Iowa Department of Education at (515) 725-7842.
