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LTP Teacher Training Sessions
Thursday, May 17, 2008
LTP teacher training sessions for the 2008-2009 school year have begun. If you are interested in scheduling a training session please contact Marianne Stavenhagen for details.
The Literacy Through Photography program has been
used in Houston Independent School District for
15 years and has been utilized by more than 20,000
Houston-area students and teachers. Since that time,
LTP has grown into three full curricula, LTP Basic,
using traditional film-based photography, LTP Digital,
incorporating the advantages of digital photography
and image making processes, and LTP for English
as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms.
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Literacy Through
Photography (LTP), the educational component of FotoFest International,
is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve
better communication skills through the use of digital or
film-based photography.
Teachers are provided with carefully designed
lesson plans that offer new writing techniques, basic photography
skills, and effective teaching strategies that transform the
classroom into a stimulating environment to give students
the confidence to express themselves through writing, and
believe what they write.
All LTP lessons are aligned with Texas-state
mandated curriculum requirements for students in third 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, their own lives, with confidence.
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