Teaching with Primary Sources

The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities

The Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program works with an educational consortium of schools, universities, libraries, and foundations to help teachers use the Library’s vast collection of digitized primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction.

Teaching with Primary Sources builds on the success of the Library's previous outreach initiatives, particularly the American Memory Fellows and An Adventure of the American Mind programs, which reached more than 10,000 teachers.

Professional development opportunities provided under the Teaching with Primary Sources program include workshops, seminars, graduate courses, distance learning courses, and mentoring to teachers of all disciplines.

The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities (www.federationedu.org) will develop a project to integrate the use of the American Memory web site and technology into the teacher education curriculum.

Links:
Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov
American Memory Collection - http://memory.loc.gov
Teaching with Primary Sources - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/

Project Partners:

Project Administration:
Donald E. Fouts, Project Co-Director and President Emeritus
Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges & Universities (DonFouts@aol.com)

Mark Newman, Project Co-Director and Associate Professor of Curriculum & Instruction
National-Louis University (mnewman@nl.edu)

Cindy Fuchs, VP for Administrative Services
Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges & Universities (Cindyfuchs@aol.com)

Costas Spirou, Project Assistant Director and Professor of Social Science
National-Louis University (cspirou@nl.edu)