scholarly journals From one-to-one to one-to-many

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia A. Mardis
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
School Library ◽  
The United States ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Information Power ◽  
One To One ◽  
Practicum Experiences ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Pre-service teacher librarians in the United States often are en route from careers as classroom teachers and view field experiences as needless repetitions of student teaching. Meaningful internships can be pivotal in helping students explore potential roles, build collegial networks, and gain valuable on-the-job insight. For an educator in transition from a single classroom to a manyfaceted school library, field practica can provide crucial opportunities to shift to the organizational, collaborative mindset outlined in Information Power, the U.S. school library guidelines (1998). This paper presents an instrumental case study gathered as part of an ongoing study of practicum experiences.

scholarly journals Classroom inside writing activities from perspective of pre-service teacherÖğretmen adaylarının perspektifinden sınıf içi yazma çalışmalarının değerlendirilmesi

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1534
Author(s):  
Seyit Ateş
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Writing, which is defined as a statement of thoughts, emotions, and knowledge in a writing form, is an important skill used by any individual during lifelong. Due to this fact, writing skill have drawn more attention from educators and researchers and a number of empiric and theoretical researches have been conducted on how to acquire and develop this skill. Additionally, how this skill is transferred into classroom setting has an interest. The current research aimed to explore the writing practices in the classroom settings from the pre-service teachers’ perspectives. This research employed qualitative case study method and the data was collected though the structured observations and semi-structured focus group interviews. The fourth-year pre-service teachers studying at elementary school classroom teaching and their experienced teachers in their student teaching experience schools constituted the research sample. The data was analyzed by using descriptive techniques. The overall findings of the research showed that there was a relative lack of the practice used for developing writing skills in the classroom setting. While the grade level changed, the practices for writing di not differentiated. Based on the research findings, the recommendations were given. Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetZihindeki duygu, düşünce ve bilgilerin yazılı bir şekilde ifade edilmesi olarak tanımlanan yazma bireyin hayatı boyunca kullanacağı önemli bir beceridir. Bu nedenle yazma her zaman eğitimcilerin ve araştırmacıların ilgi odağı olmuş, bu becerinin kazanımı ve geliştirilmesiyle ilgili kuramsal ve uygulama temelli çok sayıda araştırma yapılmıştır. Bu araştırmaların sınıflara nasıl yansıdığı ise merak konusudur. Bu araştırmada öğretmen adaylarının perspektifinden sınıfta gerçekleştirilen yazma çalışmalarının betimlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma nitel yaklaşımla gerçekleştirilmiş olup veriler yapılandırılmış katılımlı olmayan gözlemler ve katılımcılarla yapılan odak grup görüşmeler yoluyla elde edilmiştir. Sınıf öğretmenliği eğitimi son sınıf öğrencileri ve bu öğrencilerin staja gittikleri okullardaki öğretmenler araştırmanın çalışma grubunu oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada gözlem ve görüşmelerden elde edilen veriler betimsel analizle çözümlenmiştir. Araştırmadan çıkarılan en genel sonuç ilkokul sınıflarında yazmanın geliştirilmesine yönelik uygulamaların yetersiz olduğu yönündedir. Sınıf düzeyinin değişmesine rağmen yazma öncesinde, yazma sırasında ve yazma sonrasında sınıflarda yapılan çalışmalar farklılaşmamaktadır. Araştırmada elde edilen sonuçlar doğrultusunda uygulamaya yönelik öneriler geliştirilmiştir.

scholarly journals Best IASL Conference 2017 Paper: Preparing Teacher Librarians to Support STEM Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Melissa P. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Stem Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

A current focus in schools in the United States is STEM education, which prepares students for successful employment and post-secondary studies that require unique and more-technically advanced skills through teaching and learning in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This approach is grounded in problem solving, discovery, and exploratory learning, which requires students to actively engage in a situation in order to find its solution. Students engage in STEM learning in many different ways, with technology and digital resources playing an important role. The prominence of technology in STEM education provides leadership opportunities for teacher librarians. Yet, teacher librarians must be prepared to lead in the integration of technology to support STEM education. This report presents identified needs of teacher librarians in regards to supporting STEM education and discusses implications for better preparing pre-service teacher librarians to lead in order to address the needs of a new generation of learners.

scholarly journals “No text is innocent”: Canadian children’s books in the classroom

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Bainbridge ◽  
Diane Oberg ◽  
Mike Carbonaro
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
School Library ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
District Personnel ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Study District

This case study of one school district explored elementary teachers’ use of, and beliefs about, Canadian children’s books in the classroom. It also examined the supports that facilitate elementary teachers’ use of Canadian books, including services provided by teacher-librarians, school district personnel and others; availability of funding; and opportunities for professional development. The case study district had a teacher-librarian in every school and was committed to supporting the work of teachers through the school library. The participants had clear ideas about what it meant to them to be Canadian and about the values that were important to them as Canadians. They believed it was important to incorporate Canadian books into classroom activities. However, they often felt a need to justify their use of Canadian books, whereas they unquestioningly used American books in their teaching across the curriculum. Overall, they were more knowledgeable about Canadian books and Canadian authors and illustrators than teachers in earlier studies. However, the findings of the study raise an interesting paradox; the teachers supported the use of Canadian books but they did not appear to connect “Canadian values” to Canadian books. They seemed unaware that all books, Canadian or not, convey an ideology; “no text is innocent” (Stephens & Watson, 1994, p. 14).

scholarly journals Strategy of Promoting E-Learning in School Library

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzong-Yue Chen
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
School Library ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Draft Standard ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning School ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Teacher Librarians

In 1970, a Fortune magazine announced the names of top 500 enterprises and their performance in the United States. Ten years later, one third of them disappeared. Due to unprecedented technology progress and increase in competitiveness in last 20 years, so-called learning organization has become the most successful corporation. Hence, the ability to learn faster than your competitors may have become the only sustainable competitive advantage.So far schools have had difficulties to adapt enterprises’ strategy to become ‘learning school’. Using the unique characteristics and resources of a school and its community is a way to create competitive curricula. Moreover, teachers are encouraged to employ information technology (multi-media software tools) to create and edit teaching materials.In the near future, school library will play the important role to help readers to learn how to learn by software and hardware tools. Teacher librarians will set up Information Communication Technology platform, organize some reading club to improve their reading behavior, hold information literacy seed teachers contest to upgrade readers information literacy capability and researching conference.for exchanging experience Meanwhle, developing catalogue and classification standards for digital materials by IEEE’s Draft Standard for Learning Object Metadata.provide informations for their readers from Internet and knowledge database, and learn the trend of fast advance of modern science and technology to make innovative activities.

Positioning Theory: Kinesiology Students’ Experiences Teaching in an Adapted Aquatics Practicum

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahiro Sato ◽  
Justin Haegele
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Reflective Practitioners ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Practicum Experiences ◽  
Constant Comparative Analysis

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to describe and explain undergraduate students’ positions of teaching and assisting students with disabilities during adapted aquatics practicum experiences. The participants were eight kinesiology students who enrolled in an introductory adapted physical education (APE) course at a public university in the Midwest region of the United States. This study used a descriptive qualitative research method and exploratory case study design (Yin, 2003). This case study was situated in the positioning theory. The termpositioningmeans to analyze interpersonal encounters from a discursive viewpoint (Hollway, 1984). This framework allows researchers to explore the capacity of students to position themselves and, in this case, to describe how undergraduate students negotiate and implement aquatics lessons with students with disabilities. The data sources were face-to-face interviews, self-reflective journaling entries, and follow–up e-mail messages. Data were analyzed using constant comparative analysis and we uncovered the following themes: (a)ethical and unethical treatment of students with disabilities, (b)conflicts of parents’ and students’ interests, and (c)medical and gender sensitivity. This study’s results indicate that all the undergraduate students were becoming, albeit novice, reflective practitioners and ascribed their own reflective positions to their sense of advocacy. They were concerned that they had managerial challenges that exacerbated the difficulties in adjusting to the disability, medical, family and gendered backgrounds of students with disabilities. To improve preparation of undergraduate students, APE course instructors are required to use an appropriate adapted aquatic curriculum model such as the curriculum and assessment model. Using the logic of the positioning theory, researchers should study undergraduate students’ self and interactive positioning about assisting and teaching students with various levels of disabilities in adapted aquatic settings.

scholarly journals Meeting Diverse Information Needs: Students with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Jan Murray
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
School Library ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Inclusive Schooling ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents the results of a four-year study conducted in primary and secondary schools from all sectors in two Australian states, Victoria and New South Wales. The study investigated the impact of inclusive schooling on the provision of library and information services to students with disabilities. The methodology used in the study incorporated both survey and case study. Empirical data collected by survey concentrated particularly on the current level of service provision to students with disabilities, whilst case study investigations also looked at management factors. The focus was on the relationship between the school library staff and the special education staff, and the effect this had on school library provision and the acquisition of information skills by students with disabilities. The discussion includes the level of service provision to students with disabilities, as well as the managerial approach of teacher-librarians and their awareness of appropriate resources, teaching approaches and technology.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Partners in Educational Change: Teacher-Librarians and Pre-service Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-109
Author(s):  
Marlene Asselin ◽  
Jo-Anne Naslund
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Concept Maps ◽  
School Library ◽  
Flexible Scheduling ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Library Program ◽  
Teacher Librarians ◽  
Teaching Ideas

This case study aimed to clarify the role of the teacher-librarian and the nature of the school library program to pre-service teachers. Nineteen pre-service teachers collaboratively planned curriculum with teacher-librarians in their practicum schools. Data consisted of pre- and post-experience concept maps and interviews with all participants. Results showed pre-service teachers (a) significantly increased their knowledge of collaboration, resource-based learning, and information literacy, and (b) learned that collaboration helps refine and extend their teaching ideas. Teacher-librarians identified flexible scheduling and collaborative culture as conditions for curriculum-based library programs. Authentic experiences with teacher-librarians appear to be a promising means of preparing new teachers as partners.

scholarly journals A practice of one day’s training course of information literacy for teachers in Japan : case study of Waseda University

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Yukishima ◽  
Kazuyuki Sunaga
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
New Technology ◽  
School Library ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Teacher Librarians

The training course of information literacy for teachers started in 2012 at Waseda University and has been carried out in August in the last four years. The course titled “Preparing class plans using school library” is a part of courses for renewal of teachers’ certificate. Most of them are subject teachers who aren’t in charge of school library even though a few are teacher librarians. The aim of the course is to identifier the nature of information literacy, to realize some skills, and to apply each skill for their curriculum. We explain some models of information literacy, ex. ISPA model, Big6 model and PLUS model. We provide them a kind of workshop. Supposed students in digital age, we are going to adopt not only materials based on paper but also new technology, for example, Web2.0 for the training course in future.

Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

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