Handouts & Activity Materials
Below are the handouts used for each activity described in the training slides. Discussion based activities can easily be changed to fit any sized group. If your group is larger than 10, we recommend splitting into smaller groups for discussion time, then build in a few minutes for each group to report back to the large group.
Sample Agenda
Peer Media Mentorship Training Agenda.docxIcebreaker
Using either a powerpoint plugin like Poll Everywhere, an online interactive presentation platform like Glisser, handheld whiteboards, or just through discussion, ask the following questions:
- What was your favorite picture book as a child?
- Who did you read books with as a child?
- What was your first memory of watching the news? Who did you talk to about it?
Use this as an opportunity to discuss the role of media in a child's life and the meaning of caregivers' engagement with children and media.
Traditional and New Media Circle Maps
Traditional and New Media Circle Maps.pdfDirections
This is also a slide in the presentation. Discuss as a group what "traditional" media means. They can choose to add examples on the map. Then, turn to the next page/slide. Discuss as a group what "new" media means. After hearing from the audience what they think “new” media is, discuss the skills needed to effectively work with this media and mentor families in using it too. Compare and contrast the skills needed for traditional vs new media. Where are there similarities? What do we already do well that translates to new media? Where are there gaps for us?
Connecting Media Mentorship to Librarianship
Thinking Map to discuss media mentorship.pdfDirections
This chart depicts a potential way a librarian might use various opportunities to share information on media mechanics, management, and literacy. It connects the concepts you will have discussed so far - 3 ways to be a media mentor and media literacy, mechanics, and management. This is also a slide in the presentation.
Media Literacy in Early Childood Education - Faith Rogow's Four Pillars
Activity Media Literacy in Early Childhood Education.docxDirections
"Media Literacy in Early Childhood Education: Inquiry-Based Technology Integration", Chapter 7 of Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years, works well as a pre-training assignment. The handout here has quotes form the article that can be used if you are not able to access the book.
Give this to participants for the sentence sorting activity described below. They can use this to take notes or just as directions.
Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years
Rogow's Pillars Sorting Activity
Rogow's Pillars Sorting Activity.docxDirections
Create spaces on the wall for each of the four pillars. Cut each of these examples into strips and pass them out at random to the participants. Ask them to tape them to the spot on the wall corresponding with the pillar they believe the example exhibits. Allow time for participants to write their own examples on post its or the butcher paper on the walls.
After the sorting is complete, go pillar by pillar as a group and discuss a few select examples.
Three C's: Reflection Questions for Media Mentors
The 3 C's for Media Mentors_ Content, Context, and Child .docxDirections
Use this worksheet with the brainstorm notes slide. After attendees look over the suggested questions on the worksheet, ask them to create questions we can ask ourselves as librarians and media mentors about each of the three Cs as we’re working with a family in a reference interview or program.
Three C's Reflection Worksheet
The Three C's - Worksheet for Media Mentors.docxDirections
Consider an interaction from the past month across each of these three activities. How did you consider content, context, and child as you conducted an advisory, created programming, and curated content for families? What could you have done differently?
Peer Coaching Scenario Activity - Working with the Community
Working with Families and the Community - Scenarios for Discussion and Reflection.docxDirections
Read the first scenario to the group as an example exercise. Then split your group into two and give each group another scenario. Hand out the Peer Coach Observation Forms with the scenarios so participants can use it as a guide. Allow for 15-20 minutes of small group discussion - what did the librarian do well? What could they have done differently? What would you say to them if you were their peer coach? Then ask each group to report out on what they discussed .
These scenarios are created based on the parent discussion groups conducted in Harford County. If you conduct your own parent discussion groups, we recommend creating new scenarios that better mirror what you learned from the families in your community.
Media Advisory Reflection Form
Media Mentor Peer Coaching Media Advisory Form March 2018..docxDirections
For use with the Scenario Activity.
What, So What, Now What?
What, So What, Now What .docxDirections
Encourage participants to spend 1-3 minutes reflecting on how they'd answer questions on each page, then have them turn to discussion in their small groups. Do each section one at a time (Reflect on "What," discuss "What," then move on to "So What," etc.) You can choose to have each group share some of the biggest takeaways to the large group. Record the answers shared, especially the next steps.