|Friday, Oct 12, 2012 - 1:00 AM "Workshop 1. Teaching Social
Studies" Why do we teach social studies? This session focuses on
the relevance of teaching social studies and discusses
strategies for helping students gain a deeper understanding of
social studies content. The onscreen teachers review standards
and themes developed by the National Council for the Social
Studies (NCSS) and view video clips from the Social Studies in
Action video library to identify examples of powerful teaching
and learning.. D