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Summer 2009 - Professional Growth Opportunities
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Growing Into Inquiry
When: July 28 and 29, 2009
Tuesday 8:30 - 4:00
Wednesday 8:30 - 3:30
Cost - $50 per person
15 in-service hours
This two day workshop requires three things from participants:
- Plan to attend both days
- Plan to attend as a team - librarian and teacher partnerships
- Bring with you a lesson or unit that you wish to further develop
With the Capital Region BOCES Regional Information Inquiry
Curriculum as a platform, teacher-librarian partners will
collaboratively review the inquiry process, explore the dynamics
of guided inquiry, and reconsider the role of the learner
in questioning, constructing, and creating new understandings.
Starting with content curriculum, existing resource based
units, and collaborative practice, teachers and school library
media specialists will transform traditional information
problem solving plans to incorporate the 21st Century Skills
of inquiry learning. New learning will help participants
to GROW INTO INQUIRY and reap the rewards of motivated, engaged,
thinking learners.
Lunch will be served both days.
Assessment for Inquiry
When: August 3 and 4, 2009
Monday 8:30 - 3:30
Tuesday 8:30 - 4:00
Cost: $50 per person
15 in-service hours
This two day workshop requires three things from participants:
- Plan to attend both days
- Plan to attend as a team - librarian
and teacher partnerships
- Bring with you a lesson or unit for which you wish to develop assessments
Day 1- Mr. Kim Loucks from Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES will address the group on the topic of Assessment for Inquiry. This session will examine what assessment really is and the wide variety of ways to get the “big picture” on how well students are learning and performing. The theme of the day will be to explore the concept of assessment as an ongoing collaborative process between librarians and classroom teachers. The work of Violet Harada and Allison Zmuda will be incorporated into the ever-increasing body of work on assessment.
Day 2 - Bring your own inquiry based units and lessons and work with Mary Ratzer on building or modifying assessments for the work. How are your students doing? Do they exhibit deep understanding of the content as well as the process? How do you know?
Participants are asked to come in teams - teachers and library media specialists together!
Prerequisite - Growing Into Inquiry - participants should have attended at least one Growing Into Inquiry workshop.
Lunch will be served both days.
Curriculum for 21st Century Inquiry - Design
for Early Learning
When: August 10 and 11, 2009
Monday 8:00 – 4:00
Tuesday 8:00 – 3:00
Cost: $0
15 in-service hours (note – we will work through lunch both days to make the 15 hour total – be sure to bring your lunch!)
Since 2006 librarians and teachers have been working with a regionally developed information literacy curriculum. This document will be edited and adapted to primary and intermediate learners. Does Inquiry work with little ones? Absolutely! Learn to tap into the natural curiosity of young learners and begin building skills that will serve them for a lifetime of learning!
Mary Ratzer and Linda Fox will facilitate this two day workshop. The goal at the end of day 2 is to have developed appropriate language and processes for implementation of information literacy skills at the elementary level. We especially encourage middle school and high school librarians to participate. What skills do you need to see when students arrive on your doorstep? We’ll need your input!
Database Consortium Purchasing Information for 2009-2010
A large envelope was recently sent to our members from the School Library System. This envelope contains most, but not all of the information you need to place your orders for Online Databases for the 2009-2010 school year.
On Monday April 20, 2009 – an e-mail was sent to you with the subject line of: Online Database Purchasing 2009-2010. This e-mail contains a .pdf file which is the 18 page catalog of all of the databases offered by Capital Region BOCES – with pricing for 2009-2010. Feel free to print it or use the electronic copy. Due to licensing agreements with vendors, we are not able to post this document to a website. Please check your e-mail!
Your envelope should contain the customized page for your school including all of the databases to which you currently subscribe. Note – it should be stapled to a pink sheet and it should have the name of your school at the top!
These two tools will help you in making your decisions for purchasing for next school year.
To make changes to your current selection, please mark your customized list and return it to us.
1. Cross out any that you wish to cancel in pencil (lightly so we can read it).
2. At the bottom of the last page, add any new databases you wish to order and the price from the price sheet.
IMPORTANT NOTE: THE PRICE LIST HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU IN A .PDF FILE VIA E-MAIL. If you don’t have it—please call the office and we will resend. NO PAPER LIST WILL BE SENT THIS YEAR. We are saving on paper and copying costs.
Also—be mindful of the changes to the NOVEL collection. Prices have been included for those resources that are no longer a part of the NOVEL collection.
IMPORTANT NOTE! - many products are based on FTE (Full time equivalent—means number of full-time students enrolled). Please be sure that the number in the FTE column is correct. If it is wrong, cross it out and enter the correct number. Your pricing may be based on that number! Your FTE should be available from your business office.
BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR SHEET SIGNED BY AN AUTHORIZED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR OR BUSINESS OFFICIAL.
FAX BACK TO OUR OFFICE BY JUNE 5, 2009
FAX: 464-5101
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