Power Researchers: Transforming Student Library Aides into Action Learners

by Lori E. Donovan, Katherine B. Lehman

Overview

This book presents a proven year-long program to boost student productivity and train high school library aides while offering services to all patrons of the school library.

Power Researchers: Transforming Student Library Aides Into Action Learners is a unique practical guide for high school librarians to use in developing a curriculum for student library aides that expands their knowledge, develops literature appreciation, and models 21st-century teaching skills. Authors Lehman and Donovan—both experienced high school librarians—explain how to get maximum results from their proven "learn by doing and helping others" philosophy and techniques, increasing productivity in your library and giving students the necessary information literacy skills for success.

This book is filled with reproducible lesson plans, student worksheets, and rubrics. Lessons incorporate specific skills, dispositions, responsibilities, and self-assessment strategies from the AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners. The lessons and reproducibles are not just limited to use with library aides; these materials can also be utilized in collaboration with classroom teachers for whole class instruction in all content areas. Useful links to many online lessons, modules, and Web 2.0 tools are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598849110
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/15/2011
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Katharine B. Lehman is a national board certified teacher and librarian at Thomas Dale High School, Chester, VA.

Lori E. Donovan is a national board certified school librarian at Thomas Dale High School, Chester, VA.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Orientation
Chapter 2: Shelving Dewey Style
Chapter 3: Effective Internet Searching
Chapter 4: Literature
Chapter 5: Ethical Issues and Copyright
Chapter 6: Steps to Information Literacy—Pathfinder Project
Chapter 7: Participating in a Democratic Society
Chapter 8: Creating a Web Presence: Taking the Pathfinder Project Online
Chapter 9: Assessment
Chapter 10: Preparing for the Twenty-first Century
Appendix: Generic Calendar
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Each chapter begins with an overview followed by activities and an assessment as the authors walk you through the four semesters of the course. From shelving to Internet searches, ethical issues, making pathfinders, and creating a web presence, as the student knowledge base grows they create products that are useful to their peers and help the library program. The Orientation chapter outlines entire courses and rubric, forms, and a generic calendar will make it easy for you to implement the idea in your school.” —The School Librarian's Workshop

From the Publisher

Designed as a guide for ensuring that student library aides learn while working, this book has a complete library-skills curriculum for college-bound, independent-minded high school juniors and seniors. The authors provide detailed information lessons for student workers who also earn elective English credit for working in the library. They spent four years developing this course, and while the content changes according to technologies like web 2.0, the "scheduling format remains constant." Each lesson guides students through an exercise/activity or research project, and is followed by a rubric for assessment and self-evaluation purposes. The lessons are not limited to use by student aides. Many can be applied to content classes as well. Chapters include "Shelving Dewey Style," "Effective Internet Searching," "Ethical Issues and Copyright," "Steps to Information Literacy—Pathfinder Project," "Creating a Web Presence: Taking the Pathfinder Project Online," and "Preparing for the Twenty-first Century." This text provides a good framework to train student workers and better prepare them for college research.—Wendy Scalfaro, G. Ray Bodley High School, Fulton, NY

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