Annette C.H. Nelson

Has the school lost the services of a professional teacher librarian? Or, as a teacher librarian are you part time at several elementary schools? If so, these authors have created lessons that can replace the professional teacher librarian in the teaching of research skills for grades K-2. The advantage of having the classrrom teacher teach these lessons alone in the classroom is that they can be adapted easily to the topic at hand and thus will be learned more readily by the students. If taught as isolated library lessons on scheduled periods, they will lose most of their effectiveness. The most difficult advocacy effort is to convince an entire school that baby sitting students whose teacher needs a planning period and teaching them isolated skills is a good use of tax payer dollars. Certainly, the research does not support such a program.… (mais)