Dr. Sarah Kaka received a $25,000 Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. This grant will support Dr. Kaka’s work to enhance preservice teachers’ capacity to teach using primary sources. By engaging preservice teachers, cooperating teachers, and teacher educators in a sustained cycle of professional development, instructional design, and classroom implementation, this project addresses the critical need for accessible, time-efficient, inquiry based social student instruction rooted in the use of primary sources.
As lead Principal Investigator, Dr. Kaka will collaborate with colleagues from the University of Akron, Kent State University, University of Cincinnati, Otterbein, and University of Toledo—significantly expanding the project’s impact across Ohio.
Research outcomes from the project will be widely disseminated including at the Ohio Council for the Social Studies Annual conference. An open-access digital archive hosted by OWU’s Education Department website will allow broader adoption and adaption to teachers in K-12 classrooms.
This Library of Congress grant highlights OWU’s leadership in developing research that responds to society’s educational needs in these challenging times. The award is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest Region Program, located at Illinois State University
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