Membership for High School Teachers
In order to register as a High School sociology member you will need to use the promotional code: PROHS14 when registering your membership. Please write down this promo code and proceed to enroll or renew as an ASA High School Teacher member by clicking the link below.
Questions? Please contact highschool@asanet.org.
ASA Symposium (Session 1): Reading/ Writing in the Classroom to Engage Critical and Creative Thinking
First presentation in four-part symposium. Focuses on resources that increase engagement in reading/ writing in interactive format. Offers proven resources to excite students and introduces students to excite students and introduces blogging and book trailers as methodologies.
Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, IL; Hayley Lotspeich, Wheaton North High School, Wheaton, IL; Jean Shin, American Sociological Association, Washington, DC
ASA Symposium (Session 2): Research and Teaching in Urban Sociology
Second presentation in four-part symposium. Focuses on contend and increasing engagement and learning. Updates curriculum with current applications. Offers specialist presenting contemporary material that provides up-to-date trends and connections.
Shelley Kimelberg, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
ASA Symposium (Session 3): Civic Education in Sociology through Service Learning and Action Research
Third presentation in four-part symposium. Focuses on service learning, simulation, and action projects that excites learning. Offers strategies to engage skills via schools' civic mission: critical/ creative thinking, collaborating, and communicating.
Hayley Lotspeich, Wheaton North High School, Wheaton, IL; Chris Salituro, Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, IL
Happiness/ Gratitude Experiment
ASA Symposium (Session 4): TRAILS: Several Courses' Worth of Sociology Resources at Your Fingertips
Fourth presentation in four-part symposium. Focuses on TRAILS- the Teaching Resources and Innovation Library for Sociology. Participants receive free trial access to TRAILS resources, including hundreds of lesson plans.
Jean H. Shin, American Sociological Association, Washington, DC; Beth Floyd, American Sociological Association, Washington, DC