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August 27, 2008
Sec. Daniels Announces Schedule of Annual Statewide Teacher Workshop Series
Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels today announced the schedule for the annual summer teacher workshop series entitled. Using the State Capitol to Teach to be offered statewide to teachers from June 4 through August 4.
The workshops, conducted at educational cooperatives around the state and at the State Capitol, will provide an overview of the educational materials and resources available from the Secretary of State’s office, including voter education materials and programs for grades K-12, Arkansas frameworks-specific civics curriculum for grades K-8, classroom programs for grades K-12, and a teacher information CD with downloadable PDF files of Secretary of State education publications.
The teacher workshops are approved by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) for four hours of in-service credit and the required two-hour Arkansas history credit.
The agenda includes the following sessions: ;How to Make the Most of Your Capitol Field Trip, ;Beyond State Symbol Activity Books: An Overview of Programs and Specialized Tours, and ;The Best Online Resources for Arkansas History, Civics, and Government. The teacher workshops are a component of Secretary Daniels’s ongoing efforts to educate and inform Arkansas’s youth about their great state and the responsibilities of citizenship.
Civics education is just as important as the three R’s, Daniels said. ;The aim of these workshops is to help grow good citizens by giving teachers more innovative options for engaging students in the political process early on.
The ‘Using the State Capitol to Teach’ workshops provide a wealth of civics and history resources for teachers that can be customized for use in individual classrooms, said Vicki Stroud Gonterman, International Studies Coordinator at Gibbs International Magnet School in the Little Rock School District.
In addition to attending the workshops, Gonterman served on the Arkansas Civics Curriculum Project committee which created lesson plans for students in kindergarten through 8th grade that will serve as a recommended guideline for the state’s civics and social studies teachers.
Arkansas teachers willfind thatusing the new civics lesson planswill best utilize instructional time because each grade level unitclustersmanyof the social studies student learning expectations in the ADE’s Revised Social Studies Framework, Gonterman said. Students will enjoy learning how to become productive citizens of their local, state, national, and global communities.
All of the state’s teachers and school administrators are encouraged to register for the free-of-charge workshop by contacting their area educational cooperative.
The following is a list of the dates and venues for the "Using the State Capitol to Teach" workshop series:
June 4: Arkansas River Educational Cooperative
Delta Institute for Professional Growth
912 West Sixth Avenue, Pine Bluff, AR
(870) 534-6129
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
June 13: Ozarks Unlimited Resource Educational Cooperative
525 Bellefonte Road, Harrison, AR
(870) 743-9100
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
June 17: Southeast Educational Cooperative
1022 Scogin Drive, Monticello, AR
(870) 367-6848
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
June 18: Little Rock, Pulaski County, NLR School DistrictsArkansas State Capitol, Little Rock, AR
(501) 682-3025
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
June 20: Crowley’s Ridge Educational Cooperative
1606 Pine Grove Lane, Harrisburg, AR
(870) 578-5426
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
June 25: Dawson Educational Service Cooperative
711 Clinton Street, Arkadelphia, AR
(870) 246-3077
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
June 30: Great Rivers Educational Cooperative
Helena-West Helena, AR
(870) 338-6461
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
July 10: Northwest Arkansas Educational Service Cooperative
4 North Double Springs Road, Farmington, AR
(479) 267-7450
8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
July 11: Annual Social Studies Conference
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia
(870) 230-5358
11:05 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.
July 15: DeQueen/Mena Educational Cooperative
Gillham, AR
(870) 386-2251
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
July 17: Arch Ford Educational Service Cooperative
101 Bulldog Drive, Plumerville, AR
(501) 354-2269
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
July 22: South Central Educational Cooperative
400 Maul Road, Camden, AR
(870) 836-2213
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
July 24: Classroom Teacher’s Association
4900 Rogers Ave, Suite 100 E, Fort Smith, AR
(479) 484-5550
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Aug. 4: Crowley Ridge Educational Cooperative
1606 Pine Grove Lane, Harrisburg, AR
(870) 578-5426
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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