{"id":317,"date":"2021-05-12T14:41:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:41:23","slug":"northern-arizona-university-theodore-roosevelt-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/tpswesternregion\/northern-arizona-university-theodore-roosevelt-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Arizona University – Theodore Roosevelt Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Officially titled “Through the Lens of Teddy Roosevelt: Primary Sources, Inquiry and 21st Century Learning,” the three-day workshop, held on July 17-19, was a partnership between the History Department at Northern Arizona University, and the Teaching with Primary Sources Western Region Program. The presenters were Linda Sargent Wood, Assistant Professor of\u00a0History and Directory of History Education at Northern Arizona University, Peggy O’Neill-Jones, TPS Western Region Director, and long-time TPS\u00a0collaborators Michelle Pearson, Stevan Kalmon, and Cynthia Stout.<\/p>\n

The workshop focused primarily on the process of inquiry, while challenging the two dozen attendees to think about their own learning processes.\u00a0 “Inquiry should be done on an everyday basis,” Peggy O’Neill-Jones, director of the TPS Western Region, said. “We decided that our focus was to make thinking transparent, and we did this by teaching educators the inquiry process by modeling it for them and making every step visible.”<\/p>\n

Throughout the inquiry presentation, the participants also focused on the concepts of primary sources from the Library of Congress with an emphasis on Theodore Roosevelt. Using a multitude of modalities, the participants also learned about the core concepts of using primary sources in their classrooms. \u00a0These core concepts included:<\/p>\n

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  1. What primary sources are.<\/li>\n
  2. Reasons for teaching with primary sources.<\/li>\n
  3. How to teach with primary sources.<\/li>\n
  4. How to access and use primary sources and related resources from the Library of\u00a0Congress.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In order to teach these concepts, the\u00a0presenters\u00a0divided the concepts into distinct lessons:<\/p>\n