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The Whole School Library Learning Commons

An Educator's Guide

By: Judith Anne Sykes

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The Whole School Library Learning Commons

An Educator's Guide

By: Judith Anne Sykes

Introduce your teachers, librarians, and administrators to the roles and responsibilities of educators in advocating a whole school library learning commons using this step-by-step guide for creating shared learning space in your school. It is no surprise that technology has shifted the way we educate—bearing on how, what, and where we learn. This guide lays the framework for helping turn your school library into a whole school library learning commons (WSLLC)—a space where traditional academics merge with the latest technologies to engage learners in a way never before realized. Author Judith Anne Sykes contends that since the WSLLC philosophy allows staff and students to co-create knowledge in a shared space, it is more effective than the traditional approach. Sykes addresses the differences between a school library and a WSLLC, provides reasons to champion its creation in your institution, and discusses how to use mentoring as a means to sustain its survival. The book explores the roles and responsibilities of educators in developing WSLLC goals and presents strategies for using typical assessment tools—including standardized tests, report cards, and anecdotal assessments—to help support its philosophy.

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1440844216

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Brain Friendly School Libraries

By: Judith Anne Sykes

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Brain Friendly School Libraries

By: Judith Anne Sykes

This title gives concrete practical examples of how to align school library programs and instructional practice with the six key concepts of brain-compatible learning: increasing input to the brain; increasing experiential data; multiple source feedback; reducing threat; involving students in learning decision making; and interdisciplinary unit planning. This title, Brain Friendly School Libraries, gives concrete practical examples of how to align school library programs and instructional practice with the six key concepts of brain-compatible learning: increasing input to the brain; increasing experiential data; multiple source feedback; reducing threat; involving students in learning decision making; and interdisciplinary unit planning. It includes chapters that summarize the current brain research and current thinking about its implication for instructional practice in the school library media center as well as discusses the work of Ellen Langer (mindful learning), Geoffrey and Renette Caine, Bob Sylwester and other major proponents of teaching with the brain in mind.

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The Whole School Library Learning Commons

An Educator's Guide

By: Judith Anne Sykes

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An Educator's Guide

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Conducting Action Research to Evaluate Your School Library

By: Judith Anne Sykes

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Conducting Action Research to Evaluate Your School Library

By: Judith Anne Sykes

How should teacher librarians or instructional leaders engage in action research to improve their school library and benefit students' learning? This book provides the answers. Teacher librarians need to get directly involved with the research process in the learning commons in order to create actions and strategies that will enhance student learning—and benefit their own professional development as well as demonstrate accountability through their action research efforts. This book provides practical tips and work spaces for educators at the local, state, and national levels, clearly modeling and explaining the process and the tools for conducting action research in a school library setting that will identify the program's strengths and weaknesses. The author coalesces current expert opinions on the topic of action research in the school library environment and highlighting what other teacher librarians in the field have identified as the pros and cons of using the process. Readers are directed to focus on mitigating the "cons" through the use of specific working pages and templates and by initially exploring "five favorite" links, thereby encouraging those who are new to action research to try what might otherwise seem a daunting process. School principals K–12 who read this book will be better equipped to support their teacher librarians and teachers in this important professional process.

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1610690788

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Brain Friendly School Libraries

By: Judith Anne Sykes

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Library Centers

Teaching Information Literacy, Skills, and Processes

By: Judith Anne Sykes

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Library Centers

Teaching Information Literacy, Skills, and Processes

By: Judith Anne Sykes

Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills! This book documents a continuous library center program with a series of mini-lessons that cover topics from bears, books, and dinosaurs to natural resources, rockets, and Victorian holiday traditions. Projects use different types of media (e.g., books, tapes, CD-ROMs, the Internet), giving students a variety of experiences with fiction and nonfiction and allowing them to interact with resources-to find books; use the library catalog, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and CD-ROMs; alphabetize; perform author research, build a bibliography, create a book cover and poster; role play; conduct a video interview; and so on. For each center, the author provides reproducible instruction cards, a list of materials, and suggestions for implementation. Various assessment tools are recommended-observation checklists, coaching and discussion, presentations, celebrations, and formal checklists to be

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0313022844

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Collectibles Price Guide 2007

By: Judith Miller,Mark Hill

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Collectibles Price Guide 2007

By: Judith Miller,Mark Hill

From late 20th-century Studio glass to vintage clothing, this is the perfect shopping companion for bargain-hunters and collectors. Full color.

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Collectables Price Guide 2005

By: Judith Miller

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Collectables Price Guide 2005

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The best all-new, all-colour price guide to help you identify and value your collectables quickly and easily. Clear and easy-to-use, with over 5,000 collectables featured memorabilia this is the surest route to getting real value for money. A nice little earner Judith Miller knows Collectables The Telegraph

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Collectibles Price Guide 2005

By: Judith Miller

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Collectibles Price Guide 2005

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Written by world-renowned expert Judith Miller and compiled by ex-Sotheby's specialist Mark Hill, this full-color, specially photographed, catalogue-style collectibles price guideQthe only of its kindQenables anyone to identify and value over 5,000 classic and kitsch collectibles quickly and easily. Perfect for garage sales or the Internet, this guide covers Americana to folk art. 0-7566-0523-7$25.00 / DK Publishing, Inc.

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Library Centers

Teaching Information Literacy, Skills, and Processes

By: Judith Anne Sykes

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Teaching Information Literacy, Skills, and Processes

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The Whole School Library Learning Commons

The Whole School Library Learning Commons

Brain Friendly School Libraries

Brain Friendly School Libraries

The Whole School Library Learning Commons

The Whole School Library Learning Commons

Conducting Action Research to Evaluate Your School Library

Conducting Action Research to Evaluate Your School Library

Brain Friendly School Libraries

Brain Friendly School Libraries

Library Centers

Library Centers

Conducting Action Research to Evaluate Your School Library

Conducting Action Research to Evaluate Your School Library

Collectibles Price Guide 2007

Collectibles Price Guide 2007

Collectables Price Guide 2005

Collectables Price Guide 2005

Collectibles Price Guide 2005

Collectibles Price Guide 2005

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