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The Building a Learning Commons: A Handbook for Administrators and Learning Leaders provides not only an introduction to the concept but a wide variety of checklists, plans, and assessment strategies. [...] if you like the Michael Füllen book cited above, try Six Pillars of Dynamic Schools that look...

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Published inTeacher Librarian Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 64 - 67
Main Authors Loertscher, David V, Marcoux, Elizabeth, "Betty"
Format Magazine Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Bowie E L Kurdyla Publishing LLC 01.06.2010
Subjects
21st Century Skills
Elementary schools
Individualized Instruction
Learning
Learning Strategies
Librarians
Multicultural education
Professional development
Reference books
Reference works
School libraries
Teachers
Teaching
Technological change
United States
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Summary:The Building a Learning Commons: A Handbook for Administrators and Learning Leaders provides not only an introduction to the concept but a wide variety of checklists, plans, and assessment strategies. [...] if you like the Michael Füllen book cited above, try Six Pillars of Dynamic Schools that looks across the school system for six major characteristics including our idea of collaboration to discover the factors that really make a difference. Do not forget David Perkins' Making Learning Whole, which looks at how to best approach learning anything, including the subjects presented to students in school with seven principles that help transform education and learning strategies. [...] a collection of articles previously published is in the handy 21st Century Learning in School Libraries brings together both ideas and reflections on topics beyond just teaching a research model. There are many good collection development books, but Peggy Johnson's Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management reminds us of the core tenets of developing a collection that represents authence needs well, and it also weaves in great information about how to work effectively with the emerging information technologies that face all librarians today. EDUCATIONAL MATTERS Many schools are adopting the RTI or Response to Intervention method of assessing and diagnosing each learner for the purpose of helping each person achieve the goals of instruction.
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ISSN:1481-1782