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Summer Academy Course from TPS Virginia

May 24, 2018 by Professional Learning

Bring the Library of Congress to Your Classroom 
Take This Free Course – Open to All Northern Virginia Teachers of
All Subjects and Grade Levels
90 Recertification Points/3 Advanced Academic credits
July 30 – August 6, 2018
8:00 – 4:00 Thoreau Middle School

  • Create lessons and activities for immediate classroom use.
  • Develop PBL (Project Based Learning) activities for your students.
  • Design Performance-Based Assessments with intriguing primary sources.
  • Engage students in inquiry and discovery using the rich, digitized collections from the world’s largest library.
  • Develop Document-based Questions (DBQs), authentic assessments and media literacy activities.
  • Collect photographs, prints, oral histories, film clips, political cartoons, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings with real-life relevance.
  • Choose fully prepared, ready-to-use primary source sets, lesson plans and analytical tools from the nation’s Library to enhance critical thinking in your classroom.
  • Explore the World Digital Library and its outstanding global resources.
  • Dig deeply into historical newspapers (1835-1923) to uncover stories and cultures from the past in order to teach perspective.

Fairfax teachers – sign up through MyPLT when summer registration begins. Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church teachers should contactSherry@tpsnva.org or Cynthia@tpsnva.org for more information.

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