Embedded Files
"What a school thinks about its library, is a measure of what it thinks about education." - Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
Lesson Plans & Teacher Sites
Education World: Lesson Planning database of lesson plans, web sites reviews, and other educational materials.
Great Sites for Parents and Caregivers, Teachers, and Librarians - an American Library Association site adjoining to Great Sites for Kids. Annotated links to everything from Black history to educational games, and from parenting and childbirth to child safety on the Internet, and much more...
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - technology administrator, and former teacher-librarian, she maintains daily updates to this massive subject directory of useful websites for K-12 education. Additionally, find slideshows you can use, rubrics, web site evaluation tools, and more...
Thinkfinity - This is a collection of resources specifically designed for school libraries which has been funded by the Verizon Foundation and eleven other partners. Thinkfinity is a comprehensive program and online portal to 55,000 standards-based grade-specific, K-12 lesson plans and other educational resources.
Read, Write, Think -- From the National Council of Teachers of English in partnership with others, the mission is to provide educators, parents, and after-school professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
More Teacher Tools
lets multiple people work on the same text simultaneously
research tool and a knowledge sharing community
Top 25 Websites for Teaching & Learning
What Your Teacher-Librarian Can Do for You!
Teaching
The South Tama Secondary Teacher-Librarian provides instruction:
booktalks
reading guidance
information literacy instruction
organization of both print and electronic information
electronic searching of available catalogs and databases
appreciation of information and literature
determining the most appropriate information sources for the task
determining information relevance for the task
note-taking
bibliographies
the research process
evaluation of one's research process
evaluation of web sites' authority and accuracy
reference skills (especially to verify web site accuracy),
technology instruction, and more...
Partnering
The South Tama Secondary Teacher-Librarian partners with teachers in planning, designing curriculum, teaching, and assessing students' work.
Do you have a new unit coming up?
Do you have a unit that needs a change and more student involvement?
Do you need a topic bibliography?
Are you wondering how much to expect of students when researching?
Are students citing their sources appropriately when they research?
Information Specialist
The South Tama Secondary Teacher-Librarian selects materials and manages collection development and cataloging, and can help you find:
book reviews
outstanding books
sources for purchase for student research on a given topic (request form)
articles or other resources for your professional development
sources for curricular planning
appropriate online databases and websites
Administration
The South Tama Secondary Teacher-Librarian:
manages the library budget
purchases and reviews materials for collection development
works with associates, volunteers, and student assistants
sets collection and programmatic goals
reports data for those goals
Book Requests
Do you want to request a book you saw at a conference? Email Dixie Forcht
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