A Powerful Partnership: You and Your Teacher-Librarian

Leslie Ikeda (Pinetree Secondary) likeda@sd43.bc.caDiane Silzer (Charles Best Secondary) dsilzer@sd43.bc.ca

Often new teachers have the toughest loads

We can help you:

• Save time by locating and providing resources

• Provide for different levels, abilities, interests of your students (Inquiry Based Learning)

• Help you refine ideas for assignments

Resources- Newspaper articles/ Magazines for analyzing and/or

cutting up

- Find a useful article, DVD, YouTube clip

- Provide you with a resource based assignment you can tweak

- Provide list of topics for research

The EAL teacher was thrilled with the ebook she requested for her students

Lists of topics and useful links(http://www.bestlibrary.org/sjgen/)

Book talks on Psychology titles(http://www.sd43.bc.ca/secondary/pinetree/ProgramsServices/Library/Pages/Co-operativeLibraryAssignments.aspx)

Science 10 Bioaccummulation/ Literacy assignment - included a starter article provided by the t-l. Students had to locate another article from a database for additional info. They then had to make a comic strip demonstrate their understanding of their topic. (http://www.sd43.bc.ca/secondary/pinetree/ProgramsServices/Library/Pages/Co-operativeLibraryAssignments.aspx)

The Chyrsalids in the 21st century – the t-l helped with the topics and found resources including powerful clips for the topics(http://www.bestlibrary.org/chrysalids/)

While there are times where basic knowledge acquisition is fine, nowadays with easy access to information, assignments should require more from our students than cutting and pasting

Change the assignments to require higher level thinking (check out TC2 -

The Critical Thinking Consortium -http://www.tc2.ca/)

Find a country in which French is spoken and make a presentation

Research two countries where French is spoken. Which would you prefer to live?

Family Studies

Do a presentation on marriage in a country. -

Would you rather be a wife in Mexico or China? Explain why.

Research an element from the Periodic table and make a poster

Jigsaw the research. Put students into groups of three with different elements and have them decide which of their elements is the most valuable and explain why.

Research an invention from the Industrial Revolution and make a poster

Students complete a chart of their invention with four categories: Agricultural age, Industrial age, Digital age, The Future

Design a home for five people

Give the students the blueprints for a home for four and have them reconfigure it to accommodate the addition of a fifth person who requires his/her room (i.e. A grandparent moves in; a home stay student joins the family).

Make a timeline of World War I

After completing background research, students have to make three pictorial/ informational timelines of the most important events for three stakeholders in World War I. Each timeline should include the five most important events for each stakeholder and an image from its perspective.

An example of demanding more from studentsCreative project: People of the CPR and the Building of the West

OPTION ONE: WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRPAHY FOR AN HISTORICAL PERSON

STEP ONEChoose one person from the list of people (or groups of people) who contributed to, or were affected by, the building of the railwayGo on a fact-finding mission for this person or group taking into consideration:Background of person or groupWhat responsibilities they had or how they were affected What problems they encountered.Who were their adversaries and whyWhat were their solutions?What were the results?

STEP TWOWrite a first person biographical sketch, which covers all areas of the notes (Hello, my name is……..STEP THREE: get together with a person in the class who represents a collaborators or enemy. Write an argumentative dialogue between them where they argue (logically and with historical accuracy) and finally reach a compromise. Be creative but factual. You should create an anonymous individual if you represent a group.STEP FOUR: Bring your character to life. Perform either your biographical sketch or your argument with a partner - in front of the class.

• OPTION TWO: CREATE A GAME STEP ONE1. Choose at least 5 real historical persons and groups who contributed to, or were affected by, the building of the railway. They should be connected in some way.

2. Go on a fact-finding mission for this person or group taking into consideration:• Background of person or group• What responsibilities they had or how they were affected • What problems they encountered.• Who were their adversaries and why• What were their solutions?• What were the results?STEP TWOThe game will be like Trivial Pursuit. Here’s how to do it.1. IDENTIFY A CONFLICT THEME: From your notes, choose a lively conflict full of historical facts, events, problems and solutions.2. CREATE A BOARD: that takes players on a path through the conflict ( e.g. the problems building a railway in BC in the mountains). The board can be a map or a particular scene.

• Create an historically accurate STARTING AND ENDING POINT (reward of winning game).• Draw a path with places for players to land. • Create some barriers or spots that allow the player to stop and pick a card.• Create setbacks where players go backwards ( e.g. 10 Chinese workers killed by dynamite)• Create opportunities to jump ahead ( e.g. Good weather allows a work ahead of schedule)

3. CREATE CARD with the image of the person or group and a question on one side; and the answer to the question on the other. Put various values on the cards, depending on how hard the question is.4. CREATE GAME MARKERS for 4 players that are appropriate to your theme

Academic Integrity / Assessment

A true story: 25 students in two business classes were required to attend a lunch

session with me because they had plagiarized.

What are some ways to avoid plagiarism withassignments?

We can help you to be clear with your expectations/ assessment by scaffolding or providing examples

We can help you teach students how to cite properly

Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/index2.ph)

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Easy Bib (http://www.easybib.com/)

We love to help you bounce ideas around

… and to help think carefully about

assignments

A Socials teacher had students jigsaw and present topics on World War II.

There is already a great power point on World War I weapons.

Students could be asked to critique or change or add to this. (gms6teacher.wikispaces.com/file/view/weapons+of+World+War

+II.ppt)

There is lots out there on “the role of the mockingbird” in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Instead, have students locate an article on this topic and then critique it.

Web 2.0 Tools

Internet programs that allow users to interact and collaborate and create and not just view.

(Check with your district as you might need parental permission for students to create accounts)

Glogster for online multimedia posters(http://edu.glogster.com/)

Prezi for an alternative to Powerpoint(Create an educational account for more storage)

www.prezi.com

Click on the link to this presentation as a Prezi:

http://prezi.com/x1wppixwivb8/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

(Students can work online on a Prezi at the same time)

Other tools

• Google docs – Have students make surveys, make edits, use a Facebook template, etc.

• Twitter for professional development

• Dropbox for saving info online

• Evernote for saving info online

• Slideshare for putting powerpoints online

Other tools

• Wordle for word clouds for main ideas

• Time Toast – for visual timelines

• Voice Threads – great for language classes

• Edmodo for a more secure way to interact (similar to Facebook)

• Making book trailers with Movie maker, Animoto, etc.

Miscellaneous tips and tricks

To save YouTube clips easily,

• Go to the YouTube clip you want to save

• Type ss in front of the y in the link on YouTube

• It goes to “Save from the Net” site. Click and save as a mp4 file.

Charles Best Library sitehttp://www.bestlibrary.org

Check out Teacher Projects in the Charles Best Library sitehttp://www.bestlibrary.org

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Assignments are also found here

Questions and answers

Email us if you have any further questions or concerns

Leslie Ikeda (Pinetree Secondary) likeda@sd43.bc.ca

Diane Silzer (Charles Best Secondary) dsilzer@sd43.bc.ca