Monthly Archives: November 2009
TEKS Review Committee Recommendations Posted
The October 17, 2009, TEKS review committee recommendations for social studies are posted here. The recommendations are in clusters of Kindergarten through Grade 5, Grades 6 through 8, and high school courses, listed separately. In addition, Historical Figures by Grade Level and Historical Figures by Cluster are also posted. The State Board of Education (SBOE), [...]
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Applications Now Open For Gilder Lehrman’s 2010 Summer Seminars In American History
K-12 history, social studies and English teachers are invited to apply to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2010 Summer Seminars. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the US and the UK, these one-week seminars give educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of topics in American history—while gaining practical resources and [...]
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President’s Perspective
by Judy Brodigan, TCSS President 2009 Thank you so much to Bev Smith and the Lovejoy Council for the Social Studies! Because of all of your hard work, the 57th annual conference of the Texas Council for the Social Studies was an outstanding success. Almost a thousand teachers, student teachers, ,and supervisors attended the conference [...]
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Free Teaching & Learning Resources
The Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) website has recently been re-designed and now offers over 1,500 teaching and learning resources addressing 100 different educational topics, all available free-of-charge from the federal government. http://free.ed.gov
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Teach Fellowship Program Winter 2009
Teachers Educating Across Cultures in Harmony (TEACH) is a program aimed at cross cultural exchanges and increased knowledge between educators in the US and the Arab World. In December 2009, the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce will take a delegation of selected instructors to Qatar and Saudi Arabia for the purpose of raising awareness, understanding, [...]
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Applications Open for China Seminar
World history, world geography, world cultures and Chinese language (Mandarin) teachers in Texas middle and high schools are invited to apply for a month-long visit to China this summer. “The China Seminar: The Place and the People” is funded through the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program and is sponsored by the Department of Teaching, Learning [...]
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Supreme Court Summer Institute 2010
Street Law, Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society will sponsor the annual Supreme Court Summer Institute, June 17-22, 2010. The institute is open to secondary level social studies teachers & supervisors, who will spend five stimulating days on Capitol Hill and inside the Supreme Court learning about the Court, its past and current cases, [...]
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Spring Break In Egypt
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will conduct a ten-day tour of Egypt over spring break 2010 designed especially for K-12 educators. Program dates are Thursday, March 11–Sunday March 21, 2010. The tour will include visits to Cairo, Egypt’s capital and the largest city in the Arab world, [...]
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TCSS Officers Elected for 2010