Wednesday, July 29, 2009

21st Century Skills science and geography skills

THE Journal

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills <http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/>
has teamed with the National Science Teachers Association
<http://www.nsta.org/> and the National Council for Geographic Education
<http://www.ncge.org/> to launch the latest in its series of 21st century
road maps for core academic subjects, in this case K-12 science and
geography. The maps were introduced at the National Education Computing
Conference <http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/> (NECC) being held
this week in Washington, DC.

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Larry Jeffryes

TPS Direct PD tool presented at NECC

Thanks Larry for this resource!

TPS Direct
Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Direct
By using TPS Direct PD activities, educators learn how to bring primary
sources into the classroom and help students think critically, construct
knowledge, and develop the information fluency necessary for success in the
21st century.

The Library¹s PD content is applicable for educators across grade levels and
content areas. It can be used independently, or it can be integrated into an
existing professional development program.

PD Plan Builder
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/

Select activities from the Library's proven professional development
programs and build a customized PD plan. Output is a PDF (Adobe Reader 8.1.3
or higher recommended
http://get.adobe.com/reader/

Questions or comments? <http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-learning.html>