|| 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 ||
February 2008
The Center on Congress at Indiana University has formally launched its Teaching with Primary Sources Web site. Over the past year the Web site and its content have gone through a series of field tests resulting in some changes to the sites design and functionality. Check out the new Web site at www.tpscongress.org.
March 2008
5 – TPS Regional Directors, Barb Kirby, Peggy O'Neill and Rick Satchwell, representing the Eastern, Mountain/Plains and Mid-Western regions, will join Library of Congress staff, Vivian Awumey and Kathy McGuigan, for a poster session describing the TPS program at the annual meeting of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, in Las Vegas.
|| 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.
Newsletter (PDF, 601KB)
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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.