Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擳his week, 20 educators from across the Magnolia State are returning to their classrooms with the knowledge and confidence to integrate Library of Congress Primary Sources into their instruction.
Teachers representing each Congressional District and geographic area of 花秀直播 are participating through Friday in the Teaching with Primary Sources 花秀直播 Summer Institute.
MSU Assistant Professors Nicole C. Miller and Paul E. Binford and Associate Professor Kenneth V. Anthony in the College of Education鈥檚 Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education are organizers of the institute, which also will be offered June 17-21.
Anthony, who also serves as the department鈥檚 elementary education undergraduate coordinator, said learning about specific methods for teaching using primary sources will help participants develop mini-lessons they can incorporate into their own professional practice and share with other educators.
鈥淥ur goal is to help highlight the work of TPS 花秀直播 and to increase the use of primary sources and Library of Congress materials in classrooms across the state because we believe this will benefit student learning,鈥 he said.
The university鈥檚 TPS 花秀直播 Summer Institute is made possible with support from a three-year grant funded by the Library of Congress TPS program.
The grant enables MSU to provide professional development training to pre-service and in-service teachers in 花秀直播 school districts, as well as on the Starkville campus and at conferences or seminars across the state in partnership with various educational agencies. These organizations include MSU鈥檚 Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, 花秀直播 Geographic Alliance, 花秀直播 Council for the Social Studies, and the 花秀直播 Department of Archives and History.聽
In addition to the MSU curriculum, instruction and special education department鈥檚 TPS classroom in Allen Hall, learning activities are taking place in Grant Presidential Library, Department of Geosciences鈥 Dunn-Seiler Museum, and the Cobb Institute of Archaeology鈥檚 Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology, among others.
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