Consultant:
Bill Perryman is an independent consultant and develops teaching lessons and units in the field of social studies education. Bill has conducted numerous workshop trainings for area organizations, school districts and Education Service Center, Region 20 in San Antonio.Additionally, Bill is a co-developer with John Seidlitz on Perspective Based Learning™. Perspective Based Learning ™ is an approach to instruction that empowers students to speak and write from multiple perspectives using academic language. Bill and John are co-authors of Seven Steps to an English Rich Interactive Classroom - Research-Based Strategies for Engaging All Students.
Workshops:
- Seven Steps to an Interactive Classroom
- Role Play and Dramatization in the Social Studies Classroom
- Opulent Social Studies – Instructional Strategies for Engaging Students
- Writing and Social Studies – Making the Past Personal and Present
- Early European Settlement in Texas – Historic Bexar County Farm & Ranch Properties
- Writing Windows
- Windows on History
Workshop Units That Include:
Field Based on site Tours:- Mission Impossible – Arches of the Mind
- Change Over Time – Architecture in Historic San Antonio
- Reflections of Opulence – The King William Historic District
- People, Power, Passion and Pride - Historic San Antonio Landmarks
- River of Dreams - Our River, Our Story; The San Antonio River Walk