im teaching as fast as i can: making purposeful connections through your library program session...
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I’m Teaching as Fast as I Can: making purposeful connections through
your library program
Session 1210
OLA Superconference
Tina Antoniou, Ruth Hall & Marc Kopyto
Earl Haig Secondary School, TDSB
January 31, 2008
Making Purposeful Connections:
We constantly trying to partner with everyone, treating each teacher and each student as if they are an individual unit:
• Supporting individual teachers• Creating activities for individual classes• Meeting the needs of individual students
But do you get a clear sense of how this benefits the whole school?
The Challenge
• Often work alone
• Expectations from stakeholders
• Variety of roles
• The journey - starting with the end in mind
The Journey
Everyone else has a text book or a profile to teach from, to serve as a road map for their journey.
Where’s ours?
Mapping the road ahead
• Creating a framework
• Focusing your efforts
• Setting measurable goals
• Tracking what you do
• Building the big picture
Creating a Framework
1. Designing a “brand” (library handouts)
2. Framing lessons through a Research Process Model
3. Finding common threads across grades & subjects to create an interdisciplinary approach to research skill building
Creating a Framework with Handouts
Source Log (MLA)
Note Sheet
Focused Note Sheet - Gr. 9 Science
Note Sheet - ESL-D
Handouts• Common style:
• library name• border around title• same font
• Research Process stages identified
• Benefits: • Create new documents by modifying existing• Common look & feel reinforced
Science 9
Dance 11
The Process of Inquiry and Research
Knowledge andUnderstanding
Thinking
Communication
ApplicationReflect Transfer
Stage 4 Transferring
Revise Present
Select Collaborate
Stage 2 Accessing
Locate Gather
Identify Relate
Stage 1 Preparing
Define Explore
Sort Synthesize
Stage 3 Processing
Analyze/ Evaluate
Test
Research Process Model
Research Guides
•Avoid reinventing the wheel
•Modify to fit your needs G.E.A.R.S.Grand Erie AssistedResearch Strategies
A Student HandbookIntermediate / Senior
The View From the Classroom:
The dilemma of TIME
•Why it’s so hard to get beyond “show them the resources”
•The pressure to cover the curriculum
•How can you partner when there are so few moments to Plan & Reflect?
Creating a Framework with Assignments
Law - 12U
Ancient Civilizations - 11M
Framing Research Assignments
•Offer to “tweak” assignments to organize them into the 4 stages
•Encourage sharing
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”
Common Assignments
•Completed by all students in a grade
•Reinforce the research process model and skills needed to do research tasks
•Efficient way to plan & teach
•Work with the whole child
Creating a Framework with Common Research Expectations
Find where we “should” teach note making
TDSB Secondary T-Ls Wiki
Grade 9 Academic
Expectations by grade
Identify Common Threads
Sample Projects
Assignment Library Handout
Where to Begin?• What are you already doing?•Types of lessons being taught?•Stages in the research process covered?
• Pick one grade to start with
• Focus on essential skills
•Get help from Research Guides, TDSB Wiki
Connect to the Big Picture
TDSB Secondary T-Ls Wiki
http://tdsb-tls.wikispaces.com/