Teaching with Primary Sources
Modular Self-Paced PD Training: Integrating Library of Congress Primary Resources into High School Social Studies Lesson Plans
This project is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg University.
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With the return to in-person school, a push to hybrid classrooms with online content, and other demands on teachers’ time and attention, we at Third Spaces strive to make planning with Library of Congress primary resources easier. Our Modular Self-paced PD Training: Integrating Library of Congress Primary Resources into High School History Lesson Plans (MSPT) will web-deliver modular self-paced learning for busy instructors. In alignment with Maryland State Standards each module will readily identify and review teaching strategies that address specific Library of Congress primary source assets with written content to ‘walk’ instructors through each resource and demonstrate strategic adaptations to benefit all students and more specifically those students whose home language is not English. Taken individually or as a whole, each module will leave the teacher with an ‘out-of-the-box’ ready to use aligned lesson that will fully engage every student.
Grant period: July 2022 - March 2023
Status: Completed
Check out the modules on our Courses page.
Updates
March 2023
Our educator team has successfully completed our first Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional Grant project. The pilot program, which ran from July 2022 through March 2023, introduced Modular Self-Paced Training (MSPT) for high school teachers in collaboration with Maryland's Baltimore City and Montgomery County School Districts. The grant project aimed to promote teacher awareness of strategies and tools they could use to effectively integrate primary sources from the Library of Congress into their high school social studies classrooms. After months of hard work, the modules for the pilot course 'Integrating Library of Congress Primary Resources into High School Social Studies Lesson Plans' are now live and available to everyone. We're grateful for the opportunity to offer tools that expand teachers’ skill sets through globally-accessible quality professional development training.
Check out the lessons on our courses page.
On June 20-21, 2023, Margot Harris will head to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Teaching With Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region Conference. She will be presenting our Modular Self-paced PD Training (MSPT) pilot project poster and connecting with other TPS educators.
January 2023
Third Spaces representative to present at the National Council for History Education Conference
We're excited to announce that Third Spaces Digital Humanities Specialist Wendy Trakes will be joining other TPS community members at the National Council for History Education Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah March 23-25, 2023. She will be presenting "Integrating Library of Congress Primary Resources and ELL Supports into Social Studies Lesson Plans" during poster sessions On March 24th.
November 2022
TPS Project Update
After months of hard work, our Teaching With Primary Sources project is moving into the next phase. We are excited to report that the modules for our pilot course Integrating Library of Congress Primary Resources into High School Social Studies Lesson Plans are now live and being tested by participating Maryland Public School teachers!
Third Spaces representatives present at Maryland TESOL annual conference
Third Spaces Educators Margot Harris and Debra Adler presented "Integrating Library of Congress Primary Resources with ELD Supports" on November 12, 2022 at the Maryland TESOL 42nd annual conference at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland.
June 2022
TPS Regional Grant Press Release
THIRD SPACES is proud to announce that it has been awarded a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional Grant to introduce a Module Self-Paced Training (MSPT) for high school teachers. In collaboration with Maryland’s Baltimore City and Montgomery County School Districts, this unique pilot program runs from July 2022 through March 2023. The Library’s TPS Regional program promotes the widespread, sustained and effective use of primary sources from the Library of Congress by increasing access to the Library and to TPS program resources.
The Library of Congress, the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Founded in 1800, the Library seeks to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, which bring to bear the world’s knowledge in almost all of the world’s languages and America’s private sector intellectual and cultural creativity in multiple formats.
The TPS Regional program grants awards to organizations and collaborations of organizations that design and deliver projects using Library of Congress materials for specific educational goals in formal or informal settings. Learn more about the Library’s TPS program and other resources available to teachers at www.loc.gov/teachers.
Third Spaces is a women-owned small business dedicated to expanding educational opportunities through globally-accessible quality professional development and equitable solutions.
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