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Please select one primary source that appeals to you and take it with you to your seat.

Please select one primary source that appeals to you and take it with you to your seat. Professional Development Opportunities for Educators. March 4, 2011 Sara Suiter Teacher-in-Residence. Learning Objectives:.

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Please select one primary source that appeals to you and take it with you to your seat.

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  1. Please select one primary source that appeals to you and take it with you to your seat.

  2. Professional Development Opportunities for Educators March 4, 2011 Sara Suiter Teacher-in-Residence

  3. Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to navigate the Library of Congress website in order to… • Find professional development opportunities for educators, • Access primary sources from www.loc.gov, • Understand the value of using primary sources in instruction.

  4. Connecting with Primary Sources • Take a close look at the primary source you have selected. • Compare your item with others. • Form groups based on the common theme or time period of your primary sources. • Create a title for your group of primary sources.

  5. Almost 145 million items Almost 745 miles of bookshelves More than 19 million items digitized

  6. Library of Congress Homepage

  7. For Teachers

  8. Self-directed Online Modules

  9. Professional Development Builder

  10. TPS Partners

  11. Summer Institutes

  12. Scenario #1:Your principal has asked you to share what you learned at the NCCE conference with your fellow teachers. You decide to share the ‘Connecting with Primary Sources’ activity. To prepare, you need to find the activity on the Teacher’s page and print out the primary sources. Where do you begin?

  13. Scenario #2:After the NCCE conference, you decided you want to learn more about using primary sources in the classroom. Traveling to Washington, DC is too far, so you decide to check to see if there are any Teaching with Primary Sources partners hosting workshops in your area. Where do you begin?

  14. Scenario #3:You return to your school after the NCCE conference and decide you want to learn more about using primary sources in the classroom – particularly how to use maps. You head to the Library of Congress website to see if there are any online modules that might give you more tips for using maps in the classroom. Where do you begin?

  15. Staying in touch • Sign up to receive email updates • Subscribe to the RSS feed • Read our blog

  16. Reflect… • 3 people to share with… • 2 ideas to share… • 1 area of the Teachers Page for further exploration…

  17. Links • The Library of Congress: www.loc.gov • Teachers Page: www.loc.gov/teachers • Professional Development Opportunities: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/ • TPS Western Region: http://www.mscd.edu/tpsmountainplains/ Sara Suiter: ssuiter@loc.gov

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