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Sessions subject to change. Visit
www.oclre.org for the most up-to-date information. Sessions
identified with (laptop) at the end of the descriptor may be
enriched by bringing a laptop to the session.
Changing Nature of Federalism
Federalism
and We the People
Presenter: Mark
Dickman, teacher, Findlay High School, We the People Advisor
Session Description: This session will include
lessons on federalism from a student-centered approach and will
include methodology that can be used to teach other constitutional
issues as well. The session will combine aspects of the We the
People: The Citizen and the Constitution curriculum/program and
lessons on federalism. We the People teaches students about
the Constitution, Bill of Rights, its history, philosophy, and
evolution and is used in grades 5-12.
Using the highly regarded We the People text can make the
understanding of Federalism much more clear for your students.
Federalism for
Dummies: Making Sense of Federalism
Presenter: Jane Ann Craig, Educational Consultant, State Bar
of Texas, Office of Law-Related Education
Description: Federalism can be confusing for students,
beginning with understanding the terminology. This session presents
basic lessons to teach students to recognize if powers are national,
state, concurrent, or denied. A learning stations activity and a
federalism game will be featured. Jane
Ann is one of the best when it comes to creating lessons that
connect with students.
They Do That?
Spotlighting Three Key Cases of Conflicting National and State
Powers
Presenter: Jane Ann Craig, Educational Consultant, State Bar
of Texas, Office of Law-Related Education
Description: This session focuses on three case studies
involving the concept of federalism. South Dakota v. Dole involves
the issue of setting the drinking age. Setting qualifications for
election to Congress comes under scrutiny in US Term Limits v.
Thornton. In US v. Lopez, the question of which level of
government sets up gun-free school zones is answered.
Some interesting, often unused,
cases to spice up your teaching of court cases.
Understanding & Using Technology
Beyond the
Glorified Chalkboard
Presenter: Char Pope, Educational Consultant
Description: Learn how to take interactive whiteboard lessons
to the next level! Attendees will explore lesson design strategies
that will include student interactivity, formative assessment, page
design, student-directed activities, and more. These simple
strategies will take your lessons from good to great! (Laptop) If
you want
to use your interactive whiteboard to
its fullest potential, this session is for you.
Digital Resources
for Civics and Citizenship Learning: Tools for Teachers from the
Center on Congress
Presenter:
Elaine Larson,
Center on Congress at Indiana University
Description: How does Congress work? What is the citizen’s
role in our representative democracy? The Center on Congress at
Indiana University has developed a wide range of online resources –
provided free of charge – to help educators teach about Congress,
representative democracy, and citizen participation. In this
session, you will take a guided tour of the interactives, videos,
lesson plans, and other content available on the Center’s website.
You will explore
the dynamic digital content the Center has developed with the
Library of Congress – the Teaching with Primary Sources
project – designed to help teachers access and use the Library’s
digitized online primary source materials. And you will go
“in-world” to experience the Virtual Congress, a
fully-functional online replica of Congress, and Oceana, an
online role-playing game that teaches young people how to become
good citizens. (Laptop)
This website is exceptional for teaching
about Congress. Great resources and fun for students.
Get a Warrant?
How the Fourth Amendment's Search and Seizure Protections Apply to
Our Digital Communications and GPS Information
Presenter:
Kurt Hunt, Esq.,
Dinsmore &
Shohl LLP, 2012 Ohio High School Mock Trial Case Committee Co-Chair
Description:
This session will explore the legal controversy over warrantless
searches of GPS and other electronic location information. Mr. Hunt
will put GPS in the context of historical debates about
communications privacy – from Cold War-era wiretapping to modern
tracking devices – in a way accessible to those without backgrounds
in communications law or technology. The session will then discuss
specific incidents, such as the FBI's use of tracking devices
without obtaining warrants, and the response of the courts and
Congress. Finally, Mr. Hunt will preview the upcoming Supreme Court
case that may finally provide a definitive answer to how and when
GPS data can be used by law enforcement. (Laptop)
History, modern technology, legal
conflicts: all the components you need to design some great lessons.
High School Mock
Trial Practicum Website
Presenter: Addie Natalie, program coordinator, Ohio Center
for Law-Related Education
Description: Attend a demonstration of the Mock Trial
Practicum website – designed to enhance the Mock Trial experience
for you and your students! The site (available to teams for a fee)
provides interactive instructional tools, including games and videos
from pre-trial to closing arguments and everything in between. The
site helps students better understand the trial process and provides
learning tools for new and experienced advisors. (Laptop)
Regardless where you are on the
experience scale, there is something for you.
The Ohio
Treasurer’s Office: A Resource for Personal Finance Education
Presenter: Katie Harper, Coordinator, Ohio Treasurer’s
Office
Description: This session will describe the role of the
Treasurer’s office within state government and provide information
on the impact of SB 311 and HB 1 for personal finance education.
Participants will receive a demonstration of the personal finance
resource section of the Ohio Treasurer’s website. The state
treasurer’s office strives to be a repository of free personal
finance information. (Laptop) You read
it right, FREE.
Social Networking
in the Classroom
Presenter: Tim
Dove, Phoenix Middle School, 2011 Ohio Teacher of the Year
Description: This presentation will introduce a variety of
lessons using social networking to allow for setting up and
debriefing student experiences. Diigo, an online collaborative
research and knowledge sharing community tool, will be used to
demonstrate an online component. As a case study, this session will
center on controversial Middle Eastern issues, US foreign policy,
and the political agendas of many Middle Eastern countries. The
session will use guided internet research, guided notes, discussion,
and Roberts Rules of Order to complete a unit to understand the
historical and contemporary issues of the region. (Laptop)
Modern technology, social networking and
controversial Middle Eastern issues, no wonder he is Teacher of the
Year.
Using Student
Response Systems in the Classroom
Presenter: Barb Adams, Teacher, North Adams Middle School
Description: There are numerous types of student response
systems available for educational use and these devices give instant
feedback on student learning. Call them clickers or CPS, but you
will also call them engaging learning tools and fun for all.
Through this session, attendees will learn the basics of using a
student response system in numerous ways, with practice OAT or OGT
materials, classroom assessments, or for general survey information
to lead in discussion. Materials to help
practice for the OAT and OGT…great!
Judicial System: The Court and its Cases
Get a
Warrant? How the Fourth Amendment's Search and Seizure Protections
Apply to Our Digital Communications and GPS Information
Presenter:
Kurt Hunt, Esq.,
Dinsmore &
Shohl LLP, 2012 Ohio High School Mock Trial Case Committee Co-Chair
Description:
This session will explore the legal controversy over warrantless
searches of GPS and other electronic location information. Mr. Hunt
will put GPS in the context of historical debates about
communications privacy – from Cold War-era wiretapping to modern
tracking devices – in a way accessible to those without backgrounds
in communications law or technology. The session will then discuss
specific incidents, such as the FBI's use of tracking devices
without obtaining warrants, and the response of the courts and
Congress. Finally, Mr. Hunt will preview the upcoming Supreme Court
case that may finally provide a definitive answer to how and when
GPS data can be used by law enforcement. (Laptop)
History, modern technology, legal
conflicts, all the components you need to design some great lessons.
Interpretation or
Creation? What Really Happens on the Bench
Presenter: Justice Terrence O’Donnell, Supreme Court of Ohio
Description: There’s a difference between interpreting law
and making law. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Terrence O’Donnell
spells out the distinctions in the role of the judiciary, while
acknowledging that each judge brings a unique background and
personal philosophy to the bench. Get a
much clearer picture of how judges make a ruling.
Teaching Landmark
Cases – The 1857 Conviction of Rev. Samuel Green
Presenter: Prof. Sharon Davies, The Ohio State University
Moritz College of Law
Description: In 1857, a Maryland state attorney prosecuted
Rev. Samuel Green, a free Black resident for “knowingly having in
his possession an abolition pamphlet” – a copy of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin Rev. Green was convicted and sentenced to a 10-year prison
sentence. This session will examine the socio-legal context of the
time and an exploration of race relations in society and the
courts. This case will be used as a case study for the use of
landmark cases regarding race in America.
If you teach Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist movement, Civil War, this is a
must. Something new for your teaching toolbox.
They Do That?
Spotlighting Three Key Cases of Conflicting National and State
Powers
Presenter: Jane Ann Craig, Educational Consultant, State Bar
of Texas, Office of Law-Related Education
Description: This session focuses on three case studies
involving the concept of federalism. South Dakota v. Dole involves
the issue of setting the drinking age. Setting qualifications for
election to Congress comes under scrutiny in US Term Limits v.
Thornton. In US v. Lopez, the question of which level of
government sets up gun-free school zones is answered.
Some interesting, often unused, cases to
spice up your teaching of Court cases.
What Do the
Courts Say About the Rights of Your Students?
Presenter: Al Bell, retired educator
Description: This session is designed to explore the extent
to which school systems may strict students’ freedom of expression.
Do the courts support school policies that discipline students for:
Wearing t-shirts that criticize the President of the Unites States?
Comments made on a student’s home computer? Wearing t-shirts
supporting causes that school officials don’t like? Refusing to
cheer for certain athletes? Learn about these situations and how
this affects you and your students. Make
the study of court cases relevant for your students.
OGT
Preparation
Digital
Resources for Civics and Citizenship Learning: Tools for Teachers
from the Center on Congress
Presenter:
Elaine Larson,
Center on Congress at Indiana University
Description: How does Congress work? What is the citizen’s
role in our representative democracy? The Center on Congress at
Indiana University has developed a wide range of online resources –
provided free of charge – to help educators teach about Congress,
representative democracy, and citizen participation. In this
session, you will take a guided tour of the interactives, videos,
lesson plans, and other content available on the Center’s website.
You will explore the dynamic digital content the Center has
developed with the Library of Congress – the Teaching with
Primary Sources project – designed to help teachers access and
use the Library’s digitized online primary source materials. And
you will go “in-world” to experience the Virtual Congress, a
fully-functional online replica of Congress, and Oceana, an
online role-playing game that teaches young people how to become
good citizens. (Laptop)
This website is exceptional for teaching
about Congress. Great resources and fun for students.
New Directions
for Social Studies in Ohio
Presenter: Dwight Groce, Social Studies Consultant, Ohio
Department of Education
Description: Participants for this session will be provided
an update on Ohio's Model Curriculum, how it is aligned with the
standards, how it ensures that the academic content and skills
specified for each grade level are taught to students, how it
demonstrates vertical articulation and emphasizes coherence, focus,
and rigor to prepare Ohio students for the 21st century. (Laptop)
Current, relevant, what every social
studies teacher need to know.
Teaching Landmark
Cases – The 1857 Conviction of Rev. Samuel Green
Presenter: Prof. Sharon Davies, The Ohio State University
Moritz College of Law
Description: In 1857, a Maryland state attorney prosecuted
Rev. Samuel Green, a free Black resident for “knowingly having in
his possession an abolition pamphlet” – a copy of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin. Rev. Green was convicted and sentenced to a 10-year
prison sentence. This session will examine the socio-legal context
of the time and an exploration of race relations in society and the
courts. This case will be used as a case study for the use of
landmark cases regarding race in America.
If you teach Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist movement, Civil War, this is a
must. Something new for your teaching toolbox.
They Do That?
Spotlighting Three Key Cases of Conflicting National and State
Powers
Presenter: Jane Ann Craig, Educational Consultant, State Bar
of Texas, Office of Law-Related Education
Description: This session focuses on three case studies
involving the concept of federalism. South Dakota v. Dole involves
the issue of setting the drinking age. Setting qualifications for
election to Congress comes under scrutiny in US Term Limits v.
Thornton. In US v. Lopez, the question of which level of
government sets up gun-free school zones is answered.
Some interesting, often unused,
cases to spice up your teaching of court cases.
Using Student
Response Systems in the Classroom
Presenter: Barb Adams, Teacher, North Adams Middle School
Description: There are numerous types of student response
systems available for educational use and these devices give instant
feedback on student learning. Call them clickers or CPS, but you
will also call them engaging learning tools and fun for all.
Through this session, attendees will learn the basics of using a
student response system in numerous ways, with practice OAT or OGT
materials, classroom assessments, or for general survey information
to lead in discussion.
Materials to help practice for the OAT
and OGT…great!
What
Works: An Honest Narrowly Tailored Approach to Social Studies OGT
Intervention and Preparation
Presenter:
Lori
Eiler, teacher, Shaw High School
Description:
Participants will learn about the
presenter’s unique narrowly tailored benchmark approach to OGT
intervention and preparation. The workshop will focus on the ‘magic
formula’ developed where the key ingredients are: “concept
vocabulary,” interactive activities and “process practice” using
released questions. These methods have yielded equally great
results whether with struggling seniors who have a last chance
opportunity to pass the test OR with very prepared first timers in
the form of tenth graders in an Honors class. Workshop will be
interactive and peppered with fresh ideas on how to help students’
master content while becoming stars in the OGT process.
When it comes to teaching kids, Lori is
one of the best; her approaches work.
Middle
East & September 11 Ten-Year Anniversary: What Does the World Look
Like Now?
The Department of Homeland Security: Who Does What, Why, and
How
Presenter: Major
Matt Donald (ret), The Ohio State University - International Studies
Department
Description: How does the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) impact students on a daily basis and how can educators best
explain what Homeland Security means to their students? Learn more
about DHS, the newest cabinet department. This session will cover
the organizational structure of DHS and the statutory authority
behind its actions and offer brief review of the responsibilities of
each of the branches of the federal government as well as those of
the state and local governments. Ten
years ago DHS didn’t exist. What you and your students need to know.
Social Networking
in the Classroom
Presenter: Tim
Dove, Phoenix Middle School, 2011 Ohio Teacher of the Year
Description: This presentation will introduce a variety of
lessons using social networking to allow for setting up and
debriefing student experiences. Diigo, an online collaborative
research and knowledge sharing community tool will be used to
demonstrate an online component. As a case study, this session will
center on controversial Middle Eastern issues, US foreign policy,
and the political agendas of many Middle Eastern countries. The
session will use guided internet research, guided notes, discussion,
and Roberts Rules of Order to complete a unit to understand the
historical and contemporary issues of the region. (Laptop)
Modern technology, social
networking and controversial Middle Eastern issues; no wonder he is
Teacher of the Year.
What Your
Students Need to Know About the Middle East in Current World Affairs
Presenter: Dr Alam Payind, Director of Middle East Studies
Center, The Ohio State University
Description: This session focuses on aspects of past and
present geopolitical importance of the Middle East. The
presentation covers ethnic, linguistic, and sectarian relations
within the region as well as current and recent uprisings in North
Africa and the Middle East. This presentation will be interactive
and engaging! Back by popular demand!
Financial Literacy: Personal Finance Education
Hands-On
Personal Finance
Presenter:
Jared Reitz, director of programs, Ohio Center for Law-Related
Education
Description: This session will focus on easy to use lessons
that allow students to better examine their personal finances.
Participants will also be actively engaged with lessons that can be
used collaboratively with science teachers or specifically in
history, government, or economics classes that allow students to see
first-hand the results of their financial decisions.
This is a hands-on, do the work session.
The Ohio
Treasurer’s Office: A Resource for Personal Finance Education
Presenter: Katie Harper, Coordinator, Ohio Treasurer’s
Office
Description: This session will describe the role of the
Treasurer’s office within state government and provide information
on the impact of SB 311 and HB 1 for personal finance education.
Participants will receive a demonstration of the personal finance
resource section of the Ohio Treasurer’s website. The state
treasurer’s office strives to be a repository of free personal
finance information. (Laptop)
You read it right, FREE.
Mock Trial
High School Mock Trial Practicum Website
Presenter: Addie Natalie, program coordinator, Ohio Center
for Law-Related Education
Description: Attend a demonstration of the Mock Trial
Practicum website – designed to enhance the Mock Trial experience
for you and your students! The site (available to teams for a fee)
provides interactive instructional tools, including games and videos
from pre-trial to closing arguments and everything in between. The
site helps students better understand the trial process and provides
learning tools for new and experienced advisors. (Laptop)
Regardless of where you are on the
experience scale, there is something for you.
Get a Warrant?
How the Fourth Amendment's Search and Seizure Protections Apply to
Our Digital Communications and GPS Information
Presenter:
Kurt Hunt, Esq.,
Dinsmore &
Shohl LLP, 2012 Ohio High School Mock Trial Case Committee Co-Chair
Description:
This session will explore the legal controversy over warrantless
searches of GPS and other electronic location information. Mr. Hunt
will put GPS in the context of historical debates about
communications privacy – from Cold War-era wiretapping to modern
tracking devices – in a way accessible to those without backgrounds
in communications law or technology. The session will then discuss
specific incidents, such as the FBI's use of tracking devices
without obtaining warrants, and the response of the courts and
Congress. Finally, Mr. Hunt will preview the upcoming Supreme Court
case that may finally provide a definitive answer to how and when
GPS data can be used by law enforcement. (Laptop)
History, modern technology, legal
conflicts: all the components you need to design some great lessons.
Top Ten Ways To
Securing a Successful Mock Trial Season
Presenter: Denny
Lyle, Esq., attorney, Anspach Meeks Ellenberger LLP, Sylvania
Southview High School Mock Trial Legal Advisor
Description: After 25 years of coaching high school and
collegiate mock trial teams, certain fundamental principles and core
values have become a hallmark of Sylvania Southview’s success, both
on the scorecard and in the students’ lives. Mr. Lyle will give you
insight to his program and how he approaches each year. From his
observations about team selection to case analysis to courtroom
preparation and techniques, attendees will learn of his top ten ways
to developing your students and your mock trial program.
Gain insight from an experienced,
involved and successful legal advisor.
Redistricting & Reapportionment
Changing
the Shape of Things to Come: A Redistricting Update
Presenter: Ann Henkener, Legislative Director, League of
Women Voters of Ohio
Description: This session will familiarize participants with
the redistricting processes used in Ohio for the state legislature
and for Congressional districts. Maps produced by citizens for the
League of Women Voters of Ohio's redistricting competition should be
available. Updates of the status of the work of the Apportionment
Board and the legislature will be presented.
This topic only comes around every ten
years – a true teachable moment.
Other Sessions of Interest
Competitions and Showcases: Tools for Effective Learning
Presenter: Jared Reitz, director of programs, Ohio Center for
Law-Related Education
Description: Athletic coaches, music teachers, and drama
instructors know that the real learning takes place on the practice
field and in the rehearsal halls where students drill, develop and
refine their individual skills while learning to work with others as
well as having opportunities for one on one instruction with the
teacher. And, the learning objective is quite clear. The same
approaches can be used in the social studies classroom where
students use course content to prepare for a performance
assessment. The programs of the Ohio Center for Law-Related
Education all offer authentic performance assessments through
showcases and competitions. You get away
from the lecture podium and the kids are actively involved – all of
them.
The Police and
the Fourth Amendment
Presenter:
Sgt. Eric Winbigler, Bellville Police Department; Criminal Justice
Instructor, Pioneer Career & Technology Center
Description: Attendees in this session will discuss the
rights and responsibilities of police officers under the Fourth and
Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution regarding search and
seizure. Participants will learn the difference between searches
that are regulated by the Fourth Amendment and police actions that
are not considered searches and thus are not restricted by the
amendments through examination of case studies and scenarios. The
police and the Fourth Amendment: young adults want to know their
rights. Another teachable moment.
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