Growing Into Inquiry When: July 28 and 29, 2009 Cost - $50 per person
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.
Curriculum for 21st Century Inquiry - Design
for Early Learning When: August 10 and 11, 2009Cost: $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!
