The Texas Social Studies Supervisors Association held its 2008 Spring Conference March 27-28, 2008 at the Hilton Austin Airport. I gave the keynote address on the 28th. Participants requested that I post a PDF download of my notes. Here it is – Keynote.pdf 2.5MB pdf Other conference sessions included content and strategies designed to:
- Alternative strategies for dealing with TAKS failures
- Strategies for teaching students from a poverty background
- Reading in the content area
- Integrating primary sources
- Strategies for teaching English language learners
- Closing the achievement gap
- Project-based learning
- Revising the TEKS
- Implementing technology in the social studies classroom
- Pre-AP and AP social studies
- Building academic vocabulary in social studies
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