These suitcase book report projects are also a great way to add research and
library skills into your reading lesson plans.
Taught weekly
library skills classes covering library layout, research tools, the Dewey Decimal System, and the computer system to 3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes in the three Maquoketa Valley elementary schools.
As Steve Matthews commented in the program mentioned at the start of this column (as quoted by Tim Knight in a previous post), if librarians are to remain relevant in an environment where access to legal information is mediated by AI, they must re-engage with
traditional library skills as collection builders, cataloguers, indexers and knowledge managers.
Collaboration with classroom teachers integrating
library skills with curriculum Kindergarten - Eighth grades
Lessons vary by grade level and will focus
on library skills, literature appreciation and digital literacy skills.
Library lessons include the teaching
of library skills while fostering the love of stories and supporting the educational themes addressed in the regular classroom.
Librarians
provide library skills classes and book checkout, technology skills classes, technology - support, enrichment classes, and collection development.
In the process, their
online library skills will improve, even as they might be shown how some articles are freely available in ways they can consult after they graduate, as if to suggest that research might have some relevance to their lives and careers outside of school.
In the process, we might rediscover
professional library skills that we have let atrophy over the past decades, making our professional lives more fulfilling.
These
traditional library skills are not generally available or even promoted in academic law libraries, at least in Canada, where the «technical» aspects of law librarianship have generally been outsourced to central libraries and the focus is almost exclusively on legal research and reference.
Beginning in Kindergarten and continuing throughout the elementary grades, student learning is not only enriched by — but meaningfully partnered with - explorations in music, visual and dramatic arts physical education, technology, and
library skills.
Without the school librarians teaching the kids the digital literacy skills they need and
the library skills that they have always taught, without them promoting the program to their students and teachers, we would not be successful.
• Assisted licensed staff to teach students by applying lesson plans, directorial tests, and instructional activities and by teaching
library skills.
Library Assistant resume objective 4: To develop
my library skills further by working at the position of a library assistant in a popular college's library so that I can move towards my career goal of becoming a librarian one day.