WVU TPS

TPS:BASICS
Teaching With Primary Sources:
A Beginning Asynchronous Individualized Course of Study

Welcome to the West Virginia University College of Human Resources & Education Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop.

The Teaching with Primary Sources Program is provided through the United States Library of Congress and overseen by the eastern regional division office at Waynesburgh University.  West Virginia University College of Human Resources & Education program model is somewhat unique to other integration models nationwide.  Two departments here are participating and each has an emphasis focus.     

Methods for Dissemination

The model design allocates instruction in two departments at West Virginia University. 

Faculty from the Technology, Learning & Culture Department and from the Curriculum & Instruction / Literacy Studies Department partaking in the integration program will undergo a self paced online training workshop over the summer 2009 break.  This workshop will provide faculty all necessary training to implement the Teaching with Primary Sources program into instruction in the fall 2009 session. 

The online course will be developed utilizing the TPS Basics course materials developed for the TPS program with additions of technology integration concerns.  The advantage of a personalized course provides local content on West Virginia University faculty Web pages that are accessible through their own homepages.  The course is designed as an asynchronous course.  The domain areas will provide for updating and uploading relevant information pertaining specifically to our faculty needs as they emerge in this instructional environment.  

    Course outline

  • TPS Basics materials presented in Workshop sections
  • Technology
    • Downloading materials from the LOC Web site
    • Mac verse PC information references for accessing LOC materials
      • Local tech support contacts
  • Faculty question/answer  board – faculty pose questions/answers for other faculty in a discussion area pertaining to their role experience
  • Projects area – how TPS has been utilized in specific courses (examples). This area is developed as a reference area to share projects among participating faculty over time.
  • EXAMPLE: http://tps.waynesburg.edu/eregion/participants.html    

  
Faculty from TLC will focus on the technological aspects of the TPS program, while faculty from C&I/L will focus on the curricular aspects of the TPS program. 

Training for TLC faculty will be complete training of the TPS Basics course with the addition of focusing on technological aspects of integration methods.  For example, accessing LOC content on a variety of machines (Mac verse PC); downloading materials, saving materials, integrating materials into other formats and document environments for lesson development. 

Training for C&I/L faculty will be complete training of the TPS Basics course with the addition of focusing on curricular development.  This group of faculty will provide for developing positive curricular integration strategies focusing on teaching for understanding and other methods as curricular professional instruction deems appropriate. 

Because technology changes and faculty update instructional methods, it is not determined explicitly how TPS will be delivered to pre-service teachers and students other than to ensure sound pedagogical methodology will be implemented.  Faculty partaking in the program may implement in-person instruction, online instruction, or other methods designed to meet the curricular needs of college level scholars.

Mini grants – seed monies – are provided to faculty for completing the West Virginia University TPS online faculty program and for the addition of integrating the program into their courses of instruction.  Project development within courses is not subjected to approval of the grant PI.  The utility of the TPS program within each instructional context may vary widely.  For example, TPS may be used as a medium for action research projects in a curriculum methods course, or in a technology integration course.   And, TPS may be used as a teaching tool, and taught how to be used in a History of American Education course.

We are pleased you have decided to implement the TPS program into your courses of instruction.  You will find the experience rich and gratifying not only as a Professor, but as a learner.  The Library of Congress has much to offer us all. 

Also, on behalf of Dr Robert Waterson and Dr Sam Stack;     

 

Thank  you,
Marc Debiase

 

 

Content provided by:

WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY

Eastern Region Teaching With Primary Sources Partner
Ann B. Canning, Ed.D.
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