Are You Irreplaceable? Are You Willing to Become a 21st Century Teacher Librarian?

Link to presentation by TLs Lisa Domeier de Suarez and Jennifer McLean from Clayton Secondary, Surrey

http://bit.ly/pAaI0B

Vancouver KIdsbooks Phyllis Schneider's list of great (fiction and non-fiction) reads for 2011

Kidsbooks Recommended Books.doc

Doug Johnson's workshop "Designing Projects that Kids (and teachers) Will Love.  Lots of reminders to offer options, choices, make it relevant/local, look at Blooom's updated Taxonomy, and teach making better inquiry questions to students.  Text of this talk is on his wiki at http://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/designwksp along with many other good links. 

Guiding Inquiry 

  Write a question about something you wonder about personally or something that fits with the curriculum you teach.  – get students to do this with their projects at the start of a research project.    “how”  “why” Qs

What makes a great inquiry Q?  Open-ended.  No right or wrong; no definite answer.  Still has to be justified and background info found.  Some research prior to the question, sometimes.   Students may find other questions come up as well.  They will generate more as they learn more.  “what is the possibility that_____?”  Aim for an essential question.  “what are the possibilities for____?” cross-curricular…etc.  higher level of thinking….at least synthesis, analysis, etc.  Make the questions:

1. Compelling
2. Interesting
3. Debatable
4. Personal
5. Inspiring

Draws people in…gradual release from teacher to students.  Supports curiosity.

Google Jamie McKenzie

                http://www.mchenry.edu/library/tutorial/questions.htm  good outline of process for developing questions

kinds of questioning  http://www.fno.org/toolbox2/html

Langley TLs put together a wiki

Inquiry Questions   https://inquiry-questions.wikispaces.com/

Inquiry Qs related to curriculum in K-12 for BC – encourage additions, it is a bank of ideas.  Just contact the wiki for editing permission.   Only rule:  Don't remove things.