Dear Brentwood Teacher Participants:
It was a pleasure to facilitate a teacher professional development session for you today. We covered digital collections, teaching materials, instructional concepts, and had many lively discussions regarding primary sources in the classroom. I hope that each of you were able to come out of the training with new insights, useful teaching techniques, and a world of new resources at your disposal.
At this time, I would ask that you “sign off” with a paragraph or two of feedback on what you gained, enjoyed, found most useful, suggest was done differently, etc. To do so, please use the “comment” feature on this blog.
This training was completely underwritten by grant funding. As a final step, we ask that you please take the national LOC TPS survey for evaluative purposes. Here is the link for the survey:
Lastly, please keep CalU’s LOC TPS program in mind for future teaching or classroom needs regarding the Library of Congress or primary sources. I can be reached by phone at 724-938-6022 or via email (nrobbiz@gmail.com).
Best,
Nik Roberts
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I was completely unaware of the wealth of primary resources available in digitized format. This knowledge will help me to enhance my students’ learning by allowing me to bring additional resources into the classroom through the internet.
The professional development activity on working with primary resources at California University of Pennsylvania was an extremely worthwhile experience as an educator. The day was well-planned and every activity was useful. I plan on implementing much of what I have learned into my own classroom. This information can be used in social studies classrooms at all levels.
This was one of the best professional development sessions that I have ever been a part of. I say this because I feel that the information that I learned today about primary sources and how I can implement them into my curriculum has been invaluable. I have worked with primary sources in the past, but I have had some difficulty with having students become interested in them. Through the resources that I have learned about and explored today, I now feel that I am armed with the tools necessary to effectively educate about and utilize primary sources in my American History curriculum along with research projects.