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K-16 Outreach Event: Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference: “Many Voices, One Wisconsin”
March 10 - March 12
The Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC), of which LACIS is a member, will be giving to presentations during the conference geared towards K-12 educators.
Saturday, March 11th | 2:25-3:15 p.m.
“Dehumanizing and Re-humanizing Refugees”
Inquiry-Based learning gives students agency over their learning and develops student-generated questioning skills. When educators apply active-learning techniques in social studies, students aren’t just students, they’re historians and researchers. In this session, participants will learn how to unleash their social studies teaching potential by creating an inquiry-based teaching and learning classroom using primary sources and social stuides simulations as a form of student exploration. This highly interactive and engaging session will be used to promote student-generated questioning, utilize high DOK level thought processes, engage with student-centered techniques to build civic knowledge, and apply learning from the past to today’s democratic society.
Sunday, March 12th | 11-11:50 a.m.
“Tools from the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium to add to your classroom toolbox!”
Several members of the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC) — which is comprised of representatives from each of the nine area studies centers at the University of WI-Madison — will share resources they can offer both individually through a specific center, as well as collectively through collaborative WIRC-programming, for K-16 educators.