Library of Congress Summer Institutes, 2006

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Summer Institute Announcement

The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its summer
2006 Teacher Institutes. The Institutes provide educators from grades
4-12 across the nation with the opportunity to engage in intensive
study and exploration of a specific topic using the staff expertise
and facilities of the Library of Congress.

Participants in our summer institutes will:

* Discover Library of Congress primary source materials
* Develop strategies for using primary source digital content in teaching
* Engage in inquiry learning in hands-on workshops
* Learn from Library of Congress subject matter experts
* Network with other teachers from across the country and share ideas
and experiences
* Leave with a plan for creating a lesson or activity to be used with
your students.

The four sessions are:

Session 1 (June 7-9) Incorporating Primary Sources into the Teaching Process

This institute will help teachers take advantage of the instructional
power of primary sources-that is, the documents and objects left
behind by the participants in past events. Though many teachers are
familiar with the importance of primary sources, they are unsure about
how to use them in the classroom or how to help students use them in
projects. In this workshop, Library of Congress specialists will
introduce participants to the unique characteristics of primary
sources, while helping explore some of the millions of digitized
primary sources available on the Library's Web site. Participants will
look at ways to introduce students to primary sources, as well as to
help them understand how to use-and cite-primary sources in projects
of their own.

Session 2 (July 12-14) Teaching Across the Curriculum Using the Fine
and Performing Arts

All great artists are shaped by the times in which they lived, and the
materials that fine and performing artists left behind can provide
powerful insights into their times for students today. These
materials-whether they take the form of letters, sketches, rough
drafts, diagrams, or sheet music-can serve not only to document the
unique vision of a creative individual, but can also help students
understand the historical circumstances, attitudes, and issues that
helped form that vision. By giving students access to the world that
these artists lived in, teachers can show how people dealt with
adversity and shared their joy, and can provide a way to make history
more accessible to students. This institute will introduce teachers to
many different ways to incorporate these resources into the classroom.
Participants will learn how to locate these resources on the Library
of Congress Web site and will examine the original materials in our
reading rooms.

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Session 3 (July 19-21) Women's History: Beyond Rosie the Riveter and
the Suffragettes

Many classroom activities on women's history focus on the crucial role
played by the suffrage movement of the 19th century, or on the ways in
which women assisted in the war effort during World Wars I and II.
This workshop, however, will look both at and beyond these two major
turning points in women's history and will examine documents that
trace the diverse and complex roles played by women throughout the
history of the United States. Participants will meet with women's
history specialists at the Library and examine original historical
materials from the Library's collections. Library staff will also
guide participants in finding and using materials germane to women's
history on the Library of Congress Web, as well as exploring different
ways to integrate those materials into the classroom.

Session 4 (August 16-18) Incorporating Primary Sources into the
Teaching Process

See session one description.

The Institutes are open to all grade 4-12 educators, including
teachers, librarians and media specialists, and technology
coordinators in public, public charter, private or religiously
affiliated schools, as well as home schooling parents. Content is
geared to professionals working with students from upper elementary to
high school.

Participants may only attend one session and must have experience
using the Internet for research. The number of participants for each
session is limited to 20. There is no charge for the institute or
materials. Participants will be responsible for transportation and
lodging in Washington, D.C.

The deadline to apply for the Summer Institutes is April 14, 2006.

Please visit our Web site to register for this event:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/summerinstitute/register.php

Please send any questions about the Institutes to summerinstitutes@xxxxxxx

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