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A collection of articles from School Library Monthly highlighting
practical ways library media specialists can help their schools
implement the AASL's Standards for 21st-Century Learners. Ever
since the initial release of the AASL's Standards for the
21st-Century Learner, School Library Monthly magazine has
consistently focused on providing librarians with the information
and strategies they need to help students achieve those standards.
Now from the pages of that magazine comes a collection that no
school library or librarian should be without. 21st-Century
Learning in School Libraries: Putting the AASL Standards To Work
brings together the ideas and methods of leading school librarians
and educators across the nation, all focused on meeting the new
standards. The book begins with a survey of 21st-century learning
documents and an examination of how learning has changed for
today's student. It offers a wide range of articles—over 90 in
all—in a series of chapters on key themes, a vision for
successful school libraries, inquiry, collaboration, assessment,
reading, and pedagogical strategies. Each chapter has an
introduction, discussion questions, and promotional and advocacy
strategies.
Presenting examples of school librarians leading professional
learning in numerous contexts and for diverse learning goals with
remarkable success, this book will inspire other practitioners to
initiate and refine professional learning in their schools and
districts. School administrators are recognizing that school
librarians are ideal to lead professional development because they
service the entire school network, from the students and faculty to
families and the community. As a national downturn in educational
funding is diminishing districts' ability to optimally staff
libraries, investing energy in professional development is a sound
strategy to bring information literacy skills to every
student-especially in buildings with part-time librarians, or
districts with only a single librarian of record. Growing Schools:
Librarians as Professional Developers stands apart from other works
as the first book that directly addresses the potential role of the
school librarian as a staff developer. Within the chapters, the
authors relate their professional development journeys,
collectively representing experience within K-12 public and private
institutions, district and regional units, and universities across
the United States and Canada. The work provides various approaches
to professional development with a range of processes and
techniques that have been proven effective in different contexts
and in achieving diverse learning goals. Practitioners at the
building and district levels as well as school principals, state
and district personnel, and library educators will find this book
insightful and instructive.
Story Starters and Science Notebooking: Developing Student Thinking
Through Literacy and Inquiry is designed to provide a meaningful,
comfortable framework in which teachers and parents can encourage
elementary children to explore scientific ideas in an
inquiry-oriented format. The basis for each scientific concept
presented in Story Starters and Science Notebooking is embedded in
a story appropriate for elementary-aged children. The activity that
follows each narrative encourages learners to observe, compare,
gather data, organize or classify, and draw conclusions about the
problem posed from the story. Because current scientific knowledge
and understanding guide scientific investigations, background
information in each chapter provides teachers with a synopsis of
the scientific concept involved in the activity for that story. The
story starters present a framework for inquiry, which eliminates
the free-wheeling, uncontrolled, and unstructured view some
teachers have of inquiry. These are either original stories or
familiar children's stories that ask learners to investigate a
possible scientific explanation for a problem or scenario. Learners
then communicate their findings in an oral, written, pictorial, or
technological form back to a lead character from the story.
Extension activities provide an opportunity for learners to compare
their answers with what scientists already know about the world and
also motivate them to frame new questions. Grades 3-6 Introduction
Notebooking activities Problems to solve Background information for
teachers 60 illustrations and halftones 24 figures Appendix
Web 2.0, the "read/write web" creates new opportunities for
students to share their learning with a larger, real world
community via the Internet. One Web 2.0 tool that is gaining in
popularity among educators is podcasting, the process of creating
audio files using computer software and distributing them
electronically, giving students authentic audiences and the
motivation to do outstanding work. Contrary to popular
understanding, podcasting software does not require an iPod. In
fact, projects made with podcasting software also can be converted
to CDs, sent via email, stored and heard on classroom computers,
posted to a Web site or blog, or channeled into iTunes to await
subscribers. This book takes an in-depth look at several podcasting
tools, many of which are free, that can be used by educators to
create podcasts. After building a solid technical foundation, the
book introduces readers to a wide variety of lesson plans that
motivate students and stretch their higher-order thinking.
Discussion of student privacy issues is interwoven throughout.
Grades K-12.
Contrary to the trend to do away with arts education as an
unnecessary expense in schools trying to boost student test scores,
this book promotes and explains the value of integrated arts
instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular
objectives and fostering student achievement. Accomplished library
media specialist and arts instructor Kristin Fontichiaro discusses
how drama, shadow puppetry, and podcasting can be used as tools to
meet curriculum objectives in the K-8 media center. By
concentrating on the process of creating a piece of drama or
puppetry or a podcast, as opposed to the goal of performance, and
by infusing the arts with curriculum objectives in story or
research, these techniques can intensify a child's learning and
provide context for classroom curriculum objectives. A discussion
of the affective and academic benefits of this process-based work
as well as sample lessons are included. Photographs and examples of
student work illustrate the oechniques. Grades K-8.
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