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Call for Teacher-in-Residence Applications is Now closed
The Educational Outreach Division of the Library of Congress is seeking applications from current K-12 teachers or library/media specialists for a Teacher-in-Residence position. The Teacher-in-Residence will work at the Library in Washington, DC during the 2013-14 school year to advance the effective use of Library of Congress primary sources by K-12 educators.
2013 Summer Teacher Institute Application is Now Closed
The application for the 2013 Summer Teacher Institute is now closed. Applicants will be notified about their acceptance in late February/early March.
Each year the Library of Congress offers Summer Teacher Institutes for K-12 educators. During the five-day institutes in Washington, DC, participants work with Library of Congress education specialists to learn best practices for using primary sources in the K-12 classroom, while exploring some of the millions of digitized primary sources available on the Library's Web site. Be sure to subscribe to our updates to receive information about teaching resources and future professional development opportunities.
New Lesson Plans with a Global Perspective
Check out two new lesson plans from the Library of Congress.
The Alaska Purchase: Debating the Sale from Russian and U.S. Perspectives supports student use of primary sources from Russia and the U.S. to examine the respective Russian and American rationales for agreeing to the sale.
A Russian Settlement in Alaska: A Community at the Meeting of Frontiers invites students to explore Novo-Arkhangel’sk, which today is called Sitka, during the time that it was the administrative center for Russian possessions in North America.
Both lesson plans use primary sources from the Meeting of Frontiers, a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
Let us know in the comments how you teach about places where the history of the United States overlaps that of other countries.
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