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Library of Congress: 2006 Summer Institutes for Educators
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Mar 02, 2006 11:03 PST
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The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its summer 2006
Teacher Institutes. The Institutes provide educators from grades 4-12 across
the nation with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and exploration
of a specific topic using the staff expertise and facilities of the Library
of Congress.
Participants in our summer institutes will:
. Discover Library of Congress primary source materials
. Develop strategies for using primary source digital content in
teaching
. Engage in inquiry learning in hands-on workshops
. Learn from Library of Congress subject matter experts
. Network with other teachers from across the country and share ideas
and experiences
. Leave with a plan for creating a lesson or activity to be used with
your students.
The four sessions are:
Session 1 (June 7-9) Incorporating Primary Sources into the Teaching Process
This institute will help teachers take advantage of the instructional power
of primary sources-that is, the documents and objects left behind by the
participants in past events. Though many teachers are familiar with the
importance of primary sources, they are unsure about how to use them in the
classroom or how to help students use them in projects. In this workshop,
Library of Congress specialists will introduce participants to the unique
characteristics of primary sources, while helping explore some of the
millions of digitized primary sources available on the Library's Web site.
Participants will look at ways to introduce students to primary sources, as
well as to help them understand how to use-and cite-primary sources in
projects of their own.
Session 2 (July 12-14) Teaching Across the Curriculum Using the Fine and
Performing Arts
All great artists are shaped by the times in which they lived, and the
materials that fine and performing artists left behind can provide powerful
insights into their times for students today. These materials-whether they
take the form of letters, sketches, rough drafts, diagrams, or sheet
music-can serve not only to document the unique vision of a creative
individual, but can also help students understand the historical
circumstances, attitudes, and issues that helped form that vision. By giving
students access to the world that these artists lived in, teachers can show
how people dealt with adversity and shared their joy, and can provide a way
to make history more accessible to students. This institute will introduce
teachers to many different ways to incorporate these resources into the
classroom. Participants will learn how to locate these resources on the
Library of Congress Web site and will examine the original materials in our
reading rooms.
Session 3 (July 19-21) Women's History: Beyond Rosie the Riveter and the
Suffragettes
Many classroom activities on women's history focus on the crucial role
played by the suffrage movement of the 19th century, or on the ways in which
women assisted in the war effort during World Wars I and II. This workshop,
however, will look both at and beyond these two major turning points in
women's history and will examine documents that trace the diverse and
complex roles played by women throughout the history of the United States.
Participants will meet with women's history specialists at the Library and
examine original historical materials from the Library's collections.
Library staff will also guide participants in finding and using materials
germane to women's history on the Library of Congress Web, as well as
exploring different ways to integrate those materials into the classroom.
Session 4 (August 16-18) Incorporating Primary Sources into the Teaching
Process
See session one description.
The Institutes are open to all grade 4-12 educators, including teachers,
librarians and media specialists, and technology coordinators in public,
public charter, private or religiously affiliated schools, as well as home
schooling parents. Content is geared to professionals working with students
from upper elementary to high school.
Participants may only attend one session and must have experience using the
Internet for research. The number of participants for each session is
limited to 20. There is no charge for the institute or materials.
Participants will be responsible for transportation and lodging in
Washington, D.C.
The deadline to apply for the Summer Institutes is April 14, 2006.
Please visit our Web site to register for this event:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/summerinstitute/
Please send any questions about the Institutes to summerin-@loc.gov
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