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School Library Connection Blog – Evolving Practice. Engaging Learners Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator Time to Ditch Dewey? Shelving Systems that Make Sense to Students (Learning Commons Model, Part 4) - CLCD Newsletter by Heather E. Kindschy This is Heather Kindschy’s fourth article in a series on the Learning Commons Model. Be sure to take a look at the other articles in the series. As a participant in my school district’s pilot program for the Learning Commons Model of school libraries, I am required to track the questions we are asked by our patrons. When looked at from the perspective of our youngest students, the task of finding a book is a daunting one. Ditch Dewey? It turns out, I am not the only one who has noticed the shortcomings of the Dewey Decimal System. Ditching Dewey is a mind-boggling idea for many in the library world. Adopting the Learning Commons Model means building a library that works best for the users, not for the media specialist, and the Dewey Decimal System was just not working for my users. Considering the Options In preparation for this project, I did a lot of reading (see Recommended Readings at the end of this article). Our Plan What do you think? Works Cited

A Simple Way to Teach Classroom Procedures and Expectations • Got to Teach Do you feel like a “talking head” during the first couple days of school? We know that explicitly teaching procedures and expectations is a MUST for the beginning of the school year. However it’s a lot of information for a teacher to disseminate and for students to absorb. I have this simple little trick to help you cover all of this important information without losing your mind and while keeping your student engaged! When it comes to discussing behavioral expectations, I begin by writing several questions (preferably one for each student). I also ask questions that will direct our discussion to procedures that are important to my classroom management system. I number these questions and give each student one at the beginning of the day. Having these prepared for the first day of school kept me on track for covering these important “rules” and gave me one less thing to think about during the back-to-school chaos.

John Schu: Watch. Connect. Read. Barbara Braxton: 500 Hats |teacher librarian in the 21st century Complete BISAC Subject Headings, 2014 Edition Begin the simple, two-step process for choosing your BISAC Subject Heading below. Note: If you need to download and incorporate this list into your databases and systems, click here to obtain an End Users' License Agreement. If you can't find the code you're looking for please go back and review other Major Subjects to find an alternate code or use our Contact Form to suggest revisions to the next version of the list. Step 1: Determine the major heading which best describes the content of your book. Click on a heading below for more specific headings within that category. If your title does not have subject content, i.e. a blank book, please use the Non-Classifiable term below. Please note that the BISAC Subject Headings List is governed by the following copyright notice. © 2014, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 32 Great Educational Websites for Teachers April 29, 2017 Here is a handy infographic we have been working on for the last couple of days. We compiled 32 educational websites based on the Ultimate EdTech Chart we published a few months ago. We arranged these websites into 8 different categories and for each of these categories we came up with four websites that best represent the selected content area. The categories we have included are : websites for language arts teachers, websites for math teachers, websites for science teachers, websites for physics teachers, websites for history teachers, websites for social studies teachers, websites for arts teachers, and websites for music teachers. You can find links to the websites in this chart. This visual is available for free download in PDF format.

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