|| About the Program ||
The Teaching with Primary Sources Program works with colleges and other educational organizations to deliver professional development programs that help teachers use the Library of Congress's rich reservoir of digitized primary source materials to design challenging, high-quality instruction.
|| Upcoming Events ||
May 2008
21-22 – The TPS program at Waynesburg University’s Eastern Regional Partnership will be hosting the Library of Congress Online: Teaching with Primary Sources 2008 Eastern Regional Conference for potential grant awardees. The conference will provide attendees with information about the competitive process for Library of Congress Eastern Regional grants available for incorporating TPS content into ongoing education and professional development programs for pre- and in-service K-12 teachers. For more information about the conference and the TPS Waynesburg University Eastern Regional Partnership, please visit http://tps.waynesburg.edu/eregion/.
June 2008
10-12 & 17-19 – The TPS program at DePaul University will be hosting a Summer Institute Advanced Program-Level Two Training on the topic, "Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City: Chicago" on the Naperville and Lincoln Park campuses. This topic covers several content areas, including history, social studies, language arts, and humanities. For more information, please visit http://tps.depaul.edu.
|| Newsletter ||
Spotlight on Governors
State University
The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) project at Governors State University is designed to train in-service and pre-service classroom teachers along with college faculty to access, use, and produce curriculum utilizing the Internet and the digitized primary source materials from the collections of the Library of Congress. The project focuses on visual and information literacy. GSU now hosts an online collection of over 200 teacher produced projects that are available for use by educators from around the world.
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|| Virtual Institute ||
The Library of Congress is currently developing a Virtual Institute to provide an adaptive online learning community component and knowledge center to the Teaching with Primary Sources program. Teachers who do not live within proximity of a TPS partner can participate in online professional development activities.