Conferences & Institutes
Education Outreach and Partnerships develops professional learning opportunities designed to enhance educators' knowledge and abilities. Through Conferences & Institutes, participants learn and engage with other educators in order to sharpen and improve pedagogical methods.
Upcoming Opportunities
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, in cooperation with The College Board, is pleased to offer its annual AP Summer Institute. The Summer Institute brings together UW-Madison faculty and experienced AP educators to offer high school teachers advanced training in curriculum content and teaching methods of AP courses in order to help high school students excel academically and succeed in college.
The American Democracy Educators' Forum seeks seventh-twelth grade social studies teachers to participate in a two-day event held at the UW-Madison campus. Through this forum participants will discuss shared readings, hear presentations by UW scholars, and build a professional learning community that will inform and enhance their current educational practices.
The GLS Conference is the premier event in the field of videogames and learning. Now in its seventh year, this grass roots “indie” event is evolving to include innovative content formats and new programming. And after waiting lists for registration in past years, we’re now finally expanding our registration to reach an even larger and more diverse audience. The GLS conference is one of the few destinations where the people who create high-quality digital learning media can gather for a serious think about what is happening in the field and how the field can serve the public interest.
This four-day institute is designed for secondary level teachers and features an immersion in the issues, individuals, and primary source materials from the Founding Period of American History. Covering the Imperial Crisis beginning in the 1760s through the ratification of the Constitution in the late 1780s, participants will hear from scholars, be involved in discussion groups, and have sessions with pedagogical experts.
The STARTALK K-12 Chinese Language Teachers Summer Institute offers a three-week standards-based instructional program for ten current and future Chinese teachers at the K-12 level, with three UW-Madison credits for completed work through C&I 675 in the World Language Education Program. The program features quality Chinese language instruction through daily lessons, emphasizing differentiated teaching.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are pleased to offer the Educational Leadership Academy & the Leadership for Social Justice Institute. Joined in community with other educators committed to equity and excellence, at each event attendees will engage in rich dialogue facilitated by Dr. Colleen Capper, Dr. Elise Frattura, Dr. Alice Udvari-Solner, and Dr. Kurt Schneider and share resources and practices.
The Abrahamic Religions Summer Institute, sponsored by the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, includes top-notch speakers on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; model lessons for teaching controversial religious content in public schools; resources and guidelines to aid in designing age-appropriate, subject-specific lessons; and tours and explanations of different houses of worship around Madison, WI.
Past Events
This one day orientation seminar is intended for teachers, administrators, district staff, and/or parents who are exploring the International Baccalaureate programs for their schools.
Held in 2010, the Dynamic Social Studies for the 21st Century Conference offered participants the opportunity to learn best practice examples of powerful middle and high school social studies teaching and learning. Participants learned about and engaged with technology such as interactive whiteboards, educational videogames, blogs, wikis, GPS systems, handheld polling devices, interactive websites, virtual field trips, and documentary and feature films.