Would you like to optimize the impact of library services in your school? Be proactive and make educational partnerships happen In this essential guide, Farmer presents techniques, guidelines, and examples for growing and nurturing educational relationships. By exploring the issue of partnerships, as well as current educational challenges and their impact on the roles of school community members, Farmer shows how to deal with contemporary educational goals and gaps. She then discusses the benefits and costs of educational partnerships. Included are detailed models of partnership plans...
Would you like to optimize the impact of library services in your school? Be proactive and make educational partnerships happen In this essential ...
Defines and models the ways the school library program, the faculty of the school and the library staff work together to perform the important work of education in each and every school.
Defines and models the ways the school library program, the faculty of the school and the library staff work together to perform the important work of...
Digital technology can give library media specialists a tremendous amount of power when they're skilled at putting it to its highest and best use for teaching and learning. This new guide offers the newest and most comprehensive treatment of digital technology available today expressly for school librarians. Featured Review ..".the narrative easily flows and provides many good tips, such as e-calendars for scheduling classes, Creative Commons, and a focus on managing technology to support student learning. This definitely belongs on school library professional shelves. Highly recommended."...
Digital technology can give library media specialists a tremendous amount of power when they're skilled at putting it to its highest and best use for ...
Based on the premise that many minds are better than one, this revised edition of Farmer's popular book helps you understand, develop, and implement cooperative learning activities with middle and high school students. Recent findings about cooperative learning are incorporated into the strategies, as well as such trends and developments as team planning, outcome-based assessment, information literacy, and the new national guidelines for library media programs. Farmer has also added a number of new activities and detailed lesson plans, many technology based, in each of the content areas....
Based on the premise that many minds are better than one, this revised edition of Farmer's popular book helps you understand, develop, and implemen...
Instructional Design for Librarians and Information Professionals successfully melds instructional theories and best practices with an emphasis on how technology is used in teaching. This comprehensive, practical guide covers every aspect of systematic instructional design. By taking a broad, multifaceted approach, rather than concentrating on one model or system, it enables librarians and other information professionals to compare and contrast instructional design, so that they can make the best choices in a variety of settings and for a variety of purposes. Basic concepts are explained in...
Instructional Design for Librarians and Information Professionals successfully melds instructional theories and best practices with an emphasis on how...
Autism is now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, and the number of children identified as autistic continues to grow. Introducing what autism spectrum disorder is, and identifying the great need to build and manage programs for autistic youth, Farmer offers librarians in or outside a school environment all the information they need to build a library literacy program geared towards these children. Designed to both awaken sensitivities of library staff and address the questions of those who are already aware of the issue, this book *Shows how autistic children...
Autism is now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, and the number of children identified as autistic continues to grow...
Students come to the school library every day with questions ranging from "How many people live in China?" to "I need to find out how the Sun began for my science paper." Helping students find the answers to their questions is one of the most important responsibilities school librarians have. In Introduction to Reference and Information Services in Today's School Library, one of America's premier school library educators covers the A-Z of both reference and information services for today's library. Everything from teaching students how to use sources to both in-person and virtual reference...
Students come to the school library every day with questions ranging from "How many people live in China?" to "I need to find out how the Sun began fo...
Students come to the school library every day with questions ranging from "How many people live in China?" to "I need to find out how the Sun began for my science paper." Helping students find the answers to their questions is one of the most important responsibilities school librarians have. In Introduction to Reference and Information Services in Today's School Library, one of America's premier school library educators covers the A-Z of both reference and information services for today's library. Everything from teaching students how to use sources to both in-person and virtual reference...
Students come to the school library every day with questions ranging from "How many people live in China?" to "I need to find out how the Sun began fo...
-Show me your data - More than ever, funding agencies are looking for cost effectiveness. Sound data analytics is the foundation for making an evidence-based case for library programs, in addition to guiding myriad organizational decisions, from optimizing operations for efficiency to responding to community needs for customer satisfaction. Designed to be useful for novices as well as those with a background in data, this book introduces the basics of the Six Sigma framework as a model that can be applied to a variety of library settings. Helping readers make sense of data, this guide for...
-Show me your data - More than ever, funding agencies are looking for cost effectiveness. Sound data analytics is the foundation for making an evidenc...
To ensure their libraries survive and thrive, school library managers need to be both responsive and proactive. Looking past the day-to-day operations of a school library, Farmer's book serves as a reality check: school libraries must align with school mission statements and policies, while simultaneously negotiating for proper budgets and resources alongside other departments.
To ensure their libraries survive and thrive, school library managers need to be both responsive and proactive. Looking past the day-to-day operations...
