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About
the TPS-Colorado Program
What is Teaching With Primary Sources
– Colorado?
The innovative TPS-Colorado program is part of the
larger national TPS program. The goals of the program are to train
in-service and pre-service classroom teachers, faculty such as librarians,
media specialists and educational support personnel, and college
faculty to access, use, and produce curriculum using the Internet
and the digitized primary source materials from the Library of Congress
(LOC) collections. TPS-Colorado:
- Demonstrates the American Memory Program through
a series of workshops;
- Demonstrates presentation and media-capture
techniques for presenting American Memory-focused instruction;
- Creates additional instructional units that
incorporate digitized primary sources; and
- Establishes an interdisciplinary approach to
develop engaging, interactive instructional units that use primary
sources and create or acquire other digitized media elements using
existing college and community resources and participation.
Participating Colorado Educators
The TPS-Colorado program is available to all Colorado
educators. Colorado school districts may also choose to include
the TPS-Colorado program in their professional development plans.
| How TPS
– Colorado came to be? Teaching With Primary Sources, formerly An Adventure of the American Mind came to Colorado in October 2003 when Metropolitan State
College of Denver was notified that former Colorado Senator
Ben Nighthorse Campbell had secured funding for participation
in the program. Metro State’s Teacher Education
Department was immediately excited to be a part of this innovative program
and they continue to provide support to the program today. |
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