We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
With our partners at the Sarah Simpson Professional Development Center within Knox County Schools, we will present 2 days of civic education curriculum training. This second day focuses on We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution.
The primary goal of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution is to promote civic competence and responsibility among the nation’s elementary and secondary students. The instructional program enhances students understanding of the institutions of American constitutional democracy. At the same time, students discover the contemporary relevance of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The culminating activity is a simulated congressional hearing in which students "testify" before a panel of judges. Students demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of constitutional principles and have opportunities to evaluate, take, and defend positions on relevant historical and contemporary issues.
Also to be discussed: Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People is a civic education and outreach project of the Alliance for Representative Democracy, a collaboration of the Center for Civic Education, The Center on Congress at Indiana University, and the Trust for Representative Democracy at the National Conference of State Legislatures. The goal of RDA is to improve student understanding of representative democracy and to encourage young people to play a responsible role in their government. This is accomplished by providing quality classroom materials and professional development to K-12 teachers across the country.
More information about The Citizen and the Consitution can be found here.
Event Details
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009 8:00 AM
Location: Knox County Teacher Center, South Knoxville
Cost: Free and Open to the Public, Registration is required through Teacher U (Knox County Schools)
Parking: UC Parking Garage
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