Overview
Collaborate, inspire, connect! Use your library to have an impact on everything from reluctant readers to block scheduling to standardized testing. Find information and guidelines to help you play an active role in the K-12 curriculum.
Synopsis
Collaborate, inspire, connect! Use your library to have an impact on everything from reluctant readers to block scheduling to standardized testing. Find information and guidelines to help you play an active role in the K-12 curriculum.
School Library Journal
The stated purpose of this title is "-to provide media specialists with information and guidelines to help them assume active roles in the K-12 curriculum." Following an introduction on collaboration and partnerships, the volume includes a chapter on subject areas that explores mathematics in the elementary school, social studies in the middle school, and science in the high school. A section on the LMS's roles in assisting special groups of students includes the physically disabled, gifted, and those struggling in reading. Yet another chapter is devoted to educational trends such as block scheduling, electronic reading programs, and standardized testing. Ample background is provided throughout the discussions to understand concepts, and points made are supported with extensive references to research. Suggested activities are also given (useful if text is being used as a textbook or for developing professional activities). Sections called "The Role of the Media Specialist" focus on specific strategies that LMSs can employ to strengthen collaborative partnerships. The text is easy to interpret with clearly labeled headings, subheadings, bulleted lists, and sidebars. An index is included but it is not very specific. Toni Buzzeo's Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for 7-12 (Linworth, 2002) focuses on instructional partnerships, whereas Bishop's text is expanded to include a broad look at the various roles of the LMS as they relate to curricular areas, educational trends, and specific groups of students.-Beth Jones, Shelby County High School, Shelbyville, KY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Library/media personnel are keenly aware of the critical importance of creating and maintaining partnerships and collaboration with teachers, administrators and other educational professionals, as well as keeping abreast of various pedagogical issues. A daunting task, indeed, to be knowledgeable about media concerns as well as everything else. Fortunately, Kay Bishop provides us here with "information . . . including national standards, trends and controversies" (p. 18) about specific subject areas, as well as several other areas having direct impact on library/media centers. Chapter topics range from elementary school math, middle school social studies, and high school science, to students who are physically disabled, reluctant readers, gifted and talented, block scheduling, electronic reading programs (such as Accelerated Reader) standardized testing, plus a chapter on collaboration and partnerships. Specific attention is directed to the role of the media specialist and/or the media center in all chapters, and multiple perspectives are included where appropriate (for example, advantages and disadvantages of electronic reading programs). Introductory information provides brief background in resource-based learning and authentic learning/constructivism, instructional role of the library/media specialist, and types and methods of partnerships and partnering. Other special features include Web sites, bibliographies, related research and suggested activities. This is a succinct resource for helping library/media personnel to engage in informed discussions, decision-making and implementation in regard to the topics presented. Recommended."
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