Jennifer White, Curator of Education at the Museum Center at Five Points in Cleveland, Tenn., stands in the atrium of the museum.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The education curator with the Museum Center at Five Points plans to share her recent Library of Congress workshop experiences with local educators and give a boost to future Civil War programming.
Jennifer White was chosen from more than 300 applicants to participate in the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Teacher Institute earlier this month.
The five-day program taught White methods for integrating primary sources into the classroom and how to access and navigate the library’s millions of online resources.
White said she plans workshops this fall to teach strategies for using primary sources such as diaries, photographs and artifacts in the classroom.
While one of the museum’s key functions is to interpret local history through primary sources, White said it is important that school classrooms offer primary-sourced learning, too.