Library_Data Skip to main content Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web or iPad! guest Join | Help | Sign In TL Virtual Cafe Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... A library in every school, please | Schools need libraries. Full stop. // Credit AFP / Getty Images Books are to education and learning what air and water are to life. You might, therefore, be surprised to learn that many schools do not have a library or a librarian – which seems a contradiction in terms. There is no law requiring schools to have libraries either. The Society of Authors, which represents over 9,000 writers, is campaigning with other organisations for school libraries to be a legal requirement. A recent open letter from the Society to schools minister Nick Gibb asserted, among other things, that ‘Primary and secondary schools should be required by law to have a school library and a trained librarian.’ Out of the question for small schools? To Gibb’s credit he said at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers conference in April: ‘I passionately believe that every school should have a library.’ Children need protecting from philistinism just as prisoners did thirteen years ago.
Inside School Research By Holly Yettick April 11, 2014 at 12:01 PM A report by a UCLA research center criticizes models that rely on nonprofit organizations to partner with schools and community services such as health clinics in order to provide services to at-risk students. By Holly Yettick April 7, 2014 at 6:52 AM Preliminary results of a survey of California high school teachers suggest that poverty-related challenges lead students at low-income schools to receive half an hour less instructional time per day than their peers in higher-income schools. By Holly Yettick April 6, 2014 at 8:05 AM At a packed session of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, presenters offered simple and practical research-based methods of increasing student achievement by increasing motivation. By Holly Yettick April 5, 2014 at 9:15 AM By Holly Yettick April 4, 2014 at 6:20 AM By Holly Yettick April 1, 2014 at 4:06 AM
The Daring Librarian Technology An amazing way to get your tweens and teens to know the “unfamiliar” bits of your library is to do self-directed scavenger hunts. You know that your “kids” tend to congregate to one particular area- whether it’s your teen space, a place with the most comfortable chairs or a low table for card gaming, or the place furthest away from the supervising eyes of the non-teen people at the desk. And while they’ll know where to find the YA books, MAD Magazine and Alternative Press, and manga, do they know where to find non-fiction books for reports? Or how to operate one of the databases? Scavenger hunts can be as intricate or as simple as you want them to be. Or, like I did for Teen Tech Week this year, take a page from Gwyneth Jones ( The Daring Librarian, and go with a QR scavenger hunt! Once you have your theme, decide on the length of the hunt. So get creative and then sit back and watch the fun!
School library blog value As a former librarian in a small independent school with a newly established library, one of my more time-consuming tasks was promoting the library to staff and students. Actually, I spent most of my time promoting the library to the staff. The kids knew about the library - it was the place that had all the computers, and the comfy chairs. Social media merits I’m sure you’re aware of all the latest social media fads, and by now may be a little tired of hearing about all of them. When you begin to consider the different forms of social media (eg Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook, blogs etc) on their own merits, it becomes evident that, when used correctly, there can be considerable advantages associated with them. SCIS blog page Communicate more effectively Knowledge management Blogs can be more than just a virtual noticeboard or newsletter, even when they are ostensibly assigned that function. Emily Pyers Former school librarian, SCIS cataloguer and SCIS blog contributer
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The Book Fairy-Goddess AudioSynced In conjunction with Abby (the) Librarian, STACKED hosts a monthly meme to celebrate all things audiobook. On the first of each month, we rotate the blogger round up of audiobook news, reviews, and more shared in the blogosphere in the last month. We host on odd-numbered months. To participate, share a link to your audiobook reviews, news, or features from the previous month (so, for June 1st, share anything posted between May 1 and June 1). You can email them to stacked.books@gmail.com or by posting them right here. We will collect, organize, and post them for all to share. If you are a publisher of audiobooks or write about them for publication, get in touch. Want to promote this meme? Check out the AudioSynced archives for ideas of what we're looking for or to become inspired for your own posts: 2010 AudioSynced 2011 AudioSynced 2012 AudioSynced 2013 AudioSynced ShareThisContinue reading...
Why We Need School Libraries This was written by a parent in Los Angeles, who blogs as the Red Queen in LA: Disarticulating Public Schools It was a bad day 30 years ago when some business management-type decided to restructure academic departments to be fiscally self-sustaining, economically independent. In this scenario university libraries, a service-providing unit with no inherent money-generating capacity, would be held to the same standard as, say, microbiology with all its grant-overhead revenue generating potential. Faddish ideas are hard to stop, even bad ones and so this conundrum has trickled down to our primary and secondary level of schooling too. This is a really bad paradigm. And this is the true function of a library: it provides an atmosphere where ideas can be suspended long enough to permit rearrangement. Until it is clear that a library is the portal of learning, students will be without the means to accomplish their essential, lonely task. Like this: Like Loading...
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