2012 TPS Professional Development Events

November

3 — TPS-Cotsen Foundation - Constitutional Legacy: Turning History into Action

This one-day workshop will provide teachers with practical tools, deeper knowledge, and new approaches to use for teaching students about the Constitution. Workshop offerings include a lecture with a noted scholar, a visit to the exhibition Creating the United States (organized by the Library of Congress and on view at the Skirball beginning October 2012), and breakout sessions with staff from the Constitutional Rights Foundation on developing curriculum strategies that make the study of the Constitution relevant and meaningful to students.
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3 — TPS-University of Northern Colorado - The Blue & the Gray: Insights Today (Civil War | Web 2.0)

The Blue and the Gray: Insights Today will take place November 3, 8-4 PM. This event will be held in Candelaria 1170, a computer lab on UNC's Greeley campus.
Delve into Civil War-themed primary sources and teacher resources on the Library of Congress website, and explore web-based tools that help make them relevant for 21st century learners.
Social Studies teacher and guest facilitator, Carrie Veatch, returns with a new array of web 2.0 tools and an inquiry-based focus to enrich Civil War topics in your classroom as the Sesquicentennial Commemoration continues.

• Register
• Essentials Exploration is a prerequisite

*All participants will earn a certificate of completion, indicating eight hours of professional development. Participants may register for one hour of graduate credit through Extended Studies at UNC. Pre-service teachers must be recognized as juniors or seniors with at least a 3.0 grade average in order to register for graduate credit ($55). Wyoming educators will earn PTSB credit (.5).
Date: Sat, 11/03/2012 - 8:00am - 4:00pm
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8 — TPS-Middle Tennessee Workshop - "Addressing Common Core with Primary Sources and Inquiry,"

Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Email Kira Duke - Kira.Duke@mtsu.edu to register.
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10 — TPS-Middle Tennessee Workshop - "Folk Music as Primary Sources,"

Heritage Center of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Email Kira Duke - Kira.Duke@mtsu.edu to register.
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17 — TPS-Middle Tennessee Workshop - "Digging Deeper with Inquiry,"

East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST. Email Kira Duke - Kira.Duke@mtsu.edu to register.
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28 — TPS-Collaborative for Educational Services - Lesson Study Using Primary Sources (TPS)

Sharpen your skills at using primary sources to teach content literacy and the Common Core. Earn PDPs, tech. equipment, and other rewards. Space is limited!

Project work builds session-to-session; participants must attend all four. All sessions are at the Collaborative for Educational Services, 97 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA, 2pm-6pm:

• November 28, 2012 – Group explores elements of exemplary lessons based on primary sources
• December 11, 2012 – Teams draft lessons
• January 10, 2013 – Teams finalize lessons
• February 27, 2013 – Teachers report back on experience(s) of teaching lessons; identify modifications

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December

6 — TPS-Middle Tennessee - Webcast, "Using Primary Sources to Address Common Core Standards,"

MTSU Center for Educational Media, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Audience members welcome for live studio presentation. Viewing options.
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6 — TPS-Northern Virginia Partnership - Exploring Biography with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress

Date: Thursday December 6, 2012
Time: 4:30pm to 6:30am
Location: Leis Center, Multipurpose Room
Class meets Dec. 6, Dec. 13, Jan. 3, Jan. 10, Jan. 17.
One Academy credit / 30 recertification points
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