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| LTP Teacher Training |
LTP Teacher Training sessions for the 2010-2011 school year are ongoing.
If you are interested in scheduling a training session please visit the LTP Program Page for the upcoming training dates and information.
For more information on Cohort Teacher Residencies, please visit the LTP Program Page.
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The Literacy Through Photography program has been
used in the Houston Independent School District since 1990 and has been utilized by more than 25,000
Houston-area students and teachers. The Literacy Through Photography curriculum can be used with traditional film-based photography equipment as well as digital technologies. In addition to the basic LTP curriculum there are special lessons for ESL students, two environmental curricula on Water and The Earth, and the new My United States FotoFest 2010 Biennial curriculum. |
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| Literacy Through Photography (LTP) is the classroom-based educational component of FotoFest International. LTP is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve better writing and communication skills through the use of photography and visual imagery. |
| LTP is a year-round, in-school program where teachers are provided with carefully designed lesson plans that offer new writing techniques, basic photography skills, and effective teaching strategies that increase visual and verbal literacy while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and awareness of others.LTP also offers classroom-based teaching residencies with artists and photographers trained specifically to teach the LTP curriculum.
All LTP lessons are aligned to National Standards of English Language Arts as well as Texas-state mandated curriculum requirements for students in 3rd to 12th grades. Students increase visual and verbal literacy while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and awareness of each other. The LTP curriculum provides students with meaningful subject matter to help them write about their own photographs and their own lives with confidence. |
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My United States FotoFest 2010 Biennial Curriculum is Available Now!
 Currently participating LTP teachers will receive a free copy of the curriculum by mail. If you are not a currently participating LTP teacher but are interested in purchasing the remaining 6 lessons, and the 2 cds with over 80 images, copies are available for $50.
This curriculum includes seven lesson plans that explore the role photographers have played and continue to play in shaping, entrenching and challenging assumptions about social life and culture in the United States. Students will reflect upon their personal experiences of living in the United States in the form of writing and photography while addressing tough issues such as the environment, the economy, race and war.
To see a sample of the introduction and first lesson of the My United States Biennial Curriculum, click here. |
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FOTOFUN 2010: A Valentine For The Earth
PICTURE GALLERY, Click Here! |
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