Educator selected to attend institute
Each year, the Library of Congress provides the opportunity for a group of K-12 educators to attend one of its five teacher institutes in Washington, D.C.
Sue Wise, associate director of Teaching with Primary Sources at Waynesburg University, was selected to become a part of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Teacher Institute for the week of July 22-26.
The five-day program will give participants the opportunity to work with Library education specialists and subject matter experts to learn effective practices for using primary sources in the classroom, and they will also be exploring some of the millions of digitized historical artifacts and document available on the Library’s website.
The institute tries to reflect the diversity of the world of K-12 education. Participants at the institution include school media specialists and school administrators, in addition to classroom teachers. Particpants also range from many different states representing many different types of school districts and areas such as rural to large metropolitan.
The educators will be able to take back to their own schools strategies dealing with primary-source-based teaching that they will develop while attending the teacher institute.
All educators can access classroom materials, teaching tools and strategies for teaching with primary sources from the Library’s site for teachers at www.loc.gov/teachers.