Earnestine Sweeting, a fifth-grade classroom teacher at P.S. 153, The Helen Keller School, in the Bronx, N.Y., has been selected as the Library’s 2011-2012 Teacher-in-Residence. Sweeting teaches general education and gifted and talented students. She has also provided local and state-wide professional development on the use of primary sources in the classroom for the Office of Library Services in the New York City Department of Education.
Each Teacher-In-Residence undertakes a project to benefit his or her home school or district to be implemented during the following academic year. Sweeting will examine and correlate the Library’s teaching materials to the Common Core Standards adopted by New York State Last year.
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