Articulating an Impact on Student Learning by Elizabeth Burns, Assistant Professor, School Library Program, Department of Teaching & Learning, Darden College of Education, Old Dominion University The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in December 2015, positions school librarians as Essential Personnel and provides potential dedicated funding to effective school libraries–IF we make them understand why school librarians matter. ESSA falls short, however, of identifying what characterizes an effective school library program. School systems follow the new norm in education: accountability is standardized in the evaluation process. When we discuss the multiple ways library program is critical to student learning, school librarians should: Looking to ESSA requires us to carefully and intentionally articulate the librarian’s instructional roles and the expertise required in an effective program. Traditional library statistics are one way school librarians can demonstrate an effective school library program. Tags: ESSA
Learn Spanish - The online Spanish School | colegioo.com Teach Information Literacy & Critical Thinking! Are you spending a lot of time helping your students do information research? Do they know the differences between scholarly and popular materials? Are they... using the web indiscriminately for research papers? These are symptoms of "information illiteracy." Save time and get better research papers by helping your students improve their information literacy skills. NOTE: See "Exercises & Handouts" in this site for an outline of a UCLA Graduate Teaching Assistant workshop on teaching information researching and critical thinking skills to undergraduates, as well as a copy of the PowerPoint slide show. Questions, corrections, or suggestions for additions to this site? ATTRIBUTION This site was originally created in 2009 by Esther Grassian as a LibGuide when she was Information Literacy Librarian in the UCLA College Library.
Note Taking Skills for 21st Century Students Note taking skills aren’t just automatic. We tell students “take notes” but they have no idea what that means. What makes “good notes.” Ever since I went through the Writing Across the Curriculum Course at my school I realized the tremendous gap between “writing” as we’ve taught it traditionally and 21st century writing skills. Now I have a new frustration that has me grappling with noteaking. So, now, I’m taking the approach of helping students master analog notetaking. A note about In-Flip: The kids love it. I want to know what they are getting out of the videos and if they are pulling out the essential questions I’m giving them. So, here are some of the essential notetaking skills I’ve taught them so far. Cornell Notetaking System My favorite Cornell notetaking video is by Jennifer DesRochers. This method is THE SINGLE MOST important reason (besides studying myself blind) that I graduated first in my class from Georgia Tech. If you don’t believe me, look at student notes. You did it!
Welcome to the Greek online school! | Learn Greek Doing Internet Research at the Elementary Level One of the hardest things to teach, in my opinion, is research. I have been teaching in a computer lab for going on five years and I have never taught research the same way twice. This is partially because I never teach anything the same way twice, but it's also because each year I learn something new. Sometimes I learn the hard way when things don't pan out the way I planned in the classroom, sometimes I learn because something I didn't plan arose and worked out well, and sometimes its due to my own self-education as I prepare to teach my annual research unit. I begin teaching research skills in third grade -- just at the time where my students' reading skills are such that they can feel successful and just at the time when they have mounds and mounds of natural curiosity. In the past, I have done your typical find-information-and-regurgitate-it-to-me kinds of projects, all in the name of teaching students how to locate information. Choosing a Topic, Creating Keywords and Search Terms
Knowledge Quest | AASL TeacherTube - Teach the World Copyright for Educators SlideShare with Audio <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> I’ve used the SlideShare “synchronization tool” to sync up the recorded audio from my ITSC 2009 session “Copyright for Educators” with my slides. Referenced links for this session are available on my presentation wiki page. This is the first SlideShare I’ve synchronized like this to recorded audio. Technorati Tags:copyright, education, school, teachers, educators, law, itsc09, itsc2009, itsc, slideshare, intellectualproperty On this day..
Visions of the Future Background:A creative team of visual strategists at JPL, known as "The Studio," created the poster series, which is titled "Visions of the Future." Nine artists, designers, and illustrators were involved in designing the 14 posters, which are the result of many brainstorming sessions with JPL scientists, engineers, and expert communicators. Each poster went through a number of concepts and revisions, and each was made better with feedback from the JPL experts. David Delgado, creative strategy:The posters began as a series about exoplanets -- planets orbiting other stars -- to celebrate NASA's study of them. (The NASA program that focuses on finding and studying exoplanets is managed by JPL.) Later, the director of JPL was on vacation at the Grand Canyon with his wife, and they saw a similarly styled poster that reminded them of the exoplanet posters. The point was to share a sense of things on the edge of possibility that are closely tied to the work our people are doing today.
HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework Copyright and Schools Here's a nice, interactive website from the UK laying reasonably clear guidelines (well, as clear as copyright ever gets). But, as usual with most of these sites, it answers the easy questions and leaves the murkier ones still unanswered. For example, what to do with YouTube videos in an interactive iBooks project that will be published online. Dilemmas, dilemmas. UPDATE: I found a good link from Australia specifically addressing YouTube. Here's the gist, I think, (at least for our project): Generally you may embed a link to a YouTube video on another website. Even though it's going online, it's an embedded link, not a download; hence we're not copying. Any other thoughts on this?
10 Online Resources to Improve EL Literacy Many elementary school ESL teachers are now looking at materials for their 2016–2107 classroom. During a recent #ELLCHAT discussion, we shared ideas for choosing materials for ELs. One of the liveliest discussions was about online resources. I’d like to share some online resources that feature books for children and really work well for ELs. The best books sites for ELs have an audio component, and the words are highlighted as they are read. Fiction Resources EPIC is a free website for U.S. and Canadian-based elementary teachers. I also want to mention another site that is just for teachers. Nonfiction Resources I would also like to include these online articles that can be adapted for ELs in Grades K–12. Newslea takes news articles from around the world and rewrites them at up to five different lexile levels and in Spanish. In my next blog, I will discuss apps for ELs that help build literacy.
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