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PRIMARILY TEACHING 

A Summer Workshop For Educators: Using Historical Documents in the Classroom, July 23-27, 2012
  
What will Primarily Teaching offer teachers?

This workshop provides a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work that introduces teachers to the holdings and organization of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Participants will learn how to do research in historical records, create classroom material from records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. Each participant selects and prepares to research a specific topic, searches the topic in the records of the LBJ Library, and develops a teaching unit that can be presented in the classroom.

Who should attend?

Teachers of history, geography, government, civics, sociology, psychology, economics, American studies, literature, and the humanities from upper elementary through college levels take Primarily Teaching. Librarians, media specialists, archivists, and museum educators also find it useful to their work. Primarily Teaching demonstrates secondary strategies, but educators at all levels can easily adapt them to their particular needs.
 
Due to limited Reading Room space, the number of participants is limited to 10 persons. Participants will be registered in the order the registration forms are received. Email confirmation will be sent when both online application and check are received.

Are credits available? 

Texas Teachers may elect to receive 6 hours credit for Gifted/Talented training or up to 40 hours of CEU credit. Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee.

When is the workshop offered?

July 23-27, 2012 at the LBJ Library and Museum.
 
Register here