Strengthening Students' Social Studies Skills While Decreasing Grading Time

Presented by Glenn Wiebe
Outstanding Social Studies Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 6-12 History/Social Studies Teachers

Strengthen students' social studies skills
New and innovative strategies to dramatically reduce time spent grading while giving meaningful, specific feedback
Use AI resources to increase your efficiency and productivity
Receive an extensive social studies teaching digital resource handbook and access to a specially created website for you to immediately link to all the resources presented at the seminar

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Do you sometimes feel that you are spending more time reading and grading your students' products than they did creating them? This NEW seminar presented by outstanding social studies teacher Glenn Wiebe is an exciting opportunity for Grades 6-12 history/social studies teachers to explore strategies, tools, and resources designed specifically for increasing your teaching time and decreasing time spent grading. Explore outstanding ways to make the most of every lesson! You will learn how to create learning experiences that strengthen students' critical thinking, creativity, and engagement. This seminar is designed to provide you with practical, actionable strategies and skills you can implement immediately to enhance your existing social studies curriculum, making it more interactive and impactful for your students.

This seminar will also include the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence tools and how to integrate them into your social studies classroom. Join Glenn for a highly practical day filled with ways to make the best of every social studies lesson! Glenn's strategies make the best use of AI, edtech tools, game-based learning, and Google Workspace to strengthen your students' social studies learning, streamline grading and assessments, enhance your instruction, and improve your own productivity.

Join Glenn for a day filled with dozens of practical and doable strategies that will lead to powerful results!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Substantially Increase the Time You Spend Actually Teaching Social Studies
Receive extensive ideas that will allow you to immediately spend less time grading and more time in creative instruction and conferencing … Yes, less time grading and more time focusing on innovative ways to engage students in much higher levels of proficiency
Use AI to Reduce the Time You Spend Grading Student Products
Learn proven strategies to significantly reduce the time you spend grading while increasing your students' historical thinking and writing skills
Increase Student Engagement
Learn the best ways to engage students in your secondary social studies classroom, while helping them develop the skills necessary for their future professional and personal success
Integrate Game-Based Learning Tools to Engage Your Students & Build Social Studies Skills
Explore a wide variety of simulations, games, and strategies to create amazing learning opportunities for your social studies students
Use AI to Differentiate Your Instruction to Better Support Diverse Learners
Learn strategies to quickly and easily differentiate your social studies content, processes, and learning products to build on your students' strengths and address their unique needs … Quickly customize and strengthen your existing curriculum using AI
Quickly Create Engaging Social Studies Lessons With Al
Spark student interest and motivation with AI, creating compelling social studies lessons … Construct highly engaging learning opportunities with just a few clicks
Strengthen Your Social Studies Students' Critical Thinking Skills
Proven approaches for strengthening your students' thinking … Practical strategies to get powerful results while creating a productive learning environment
Improve Students' Concept Retention Using Critical Thinking Tools
Promote active learning and strengthen critical thinking skills … Utilize dozens of strategies to create engaging social studies learning experiences that improve students' retention of key concepts
Provide More Effective Feedback to Improve Student Work
Move beyond time-consuming grading practices by focusing on feedback strategies proven to increase student learning … Techniques for giving more meaningful, more practical feedback , while saving you time
Receive an Extensive Social Studies Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook, filled with over a hundred outstanding and innovative strategies to maximize your Grades 6-12 History/Social Studies instruction and decrease grading time

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Methods for supporting inquiry and the use of evidence to create highly successful critical thinkers
A roadmap for integrating new strategies in the social studies classroom: the latest developments, challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls to avoid
How to use AI to create modified rubrics and feedback to improve student products, and build student confidence while decreasing grading time
The best, most useful AI tools to enhance your instruction and productivity, and increase your students' social studies learning
Innovative ways to build students' critical thinking, collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving skills
Approaches for changing your classroom culture so learning is the focus, not grades
Essential ways to strengthen student research and data analysis skills
Numerous ideas for fostering creativity and innovation in your social studies classroom
How to integrate AI into your existing lessons and units to save you time
The latest simulations and game-based learning tools that engage students and increase learning
Methods to streamline administrative tasks like short-term and long-term planning, crafting email replies, creating parent messages, and documenting evidence of learning
How the latest edtech tools can help you manage your social studies instruction, support cross-cultural learning, and foster a global mindset

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

The traditional social studies lessons and strategies that we've used for years need to be rethought. Our students are entering a vastly different political, social, and economic environment than even ten years ago. They are asking for and require a different set of skills to be successful in their local and global communities. But we're not always sure what that can look like.

It wasn't long ago that many of us believed that tools such as Wikipedia, video games, and Google Search would ruin social studies instruction. They are now some of the most useful items in our teaching toolbelt. From timesaving grading strategies to making the most of the latest AI tools, I'm excited to share the latest classroom-tested strategies, tools, and resources you can use to increase student engagement, creativity, and historical thinking, while increasing your own productivity.

I designed this seminar expressly with the needs of both you and your students in mind. This is not a sit-and-get day – you'll be evaluating strategies, gathering ideas, and working with others to solve problems. It will be a practical, hands-on learning experience specifically designed to help you hone your craft so that your students walk out of your classroom smarter and better prepared than when they walked in. My goal is that you leave with a toolkit full of practical strategies to significantly improve student learning while greatly reducing the time you spend grading papers. I'm convinced you will leave with strategies to enhance your teaching and increase student learning while saving you time and streamlining your workload!

What you do every day is too important to leave to chance, so I'll make sure you leave with the most effective ideas that I've found – and all ready to use immediately!

Sincerely,
Glenn Wiebe

P.S. Come ready to learn, share, and engage during this fast-paced learning opportunity full of outstanding social studies teaching strategies and practical timesavers you can use the very next day!

Who Should Attend

Grades 6-12 History/Social Studies Teachers

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies. The handbook includes:

Practical, ready-to-use strategies and techniques to strengthen student learning and significantly reduce your grading time
Motivational engagement strategies that can be used to focus your class as bell ringers or as entire lessons
Sample AI strategies to create engaging and personalized social studies lessons that cater to individual student learning needs
Powerful strategies using a variety of multimodal tools to increase your students' motivation, involvement, and success in an age of constantly evolving technology
AI tools to help you automate routine administrative tasks, saving you valuable time
Games, simulations, and resources for integrating Game-Based Learning into your social studies classroom
Proven activities that generate active participation, promote higher-level critical thinking, and motivate students to grow as critical thinkers
Tips and tricks to help you use AI to streamline your assessment and grading work and provide meaningful, rapid feedback

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their social studies skills program.

Consultation Available
Glenn Wiebe will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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