inquiry-based learning
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Comprehension & Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action by Stephanie Harvey and Harvey Daniels
Comprehension & Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action by Stephanie Harvey & Harvey Daniels My rating: 3 of 5 stars A bit 101 for my taste. It was so busy trying to be all encompassing that I’m not sure it presented any new information…. It outlines the phases of the inquiry process very well, but doesn’t follow…
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Testing the limits of my catalogue
I am concerned about the availability and accessibility of our catalogue. Our catalogue is completely online and in 2012 we moved from the Horizon software to Workflows Symphony software for our circulation. While there are certain advantages to our new software, the cataloguing is still primarily controlled and managed at the board level. Maybe they’re…
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Reflection: on entering the library
E contacted me today thinking about career changes, or sidesteps moving from classroom teaching to some of those rarer positions in schools like teacher-librarianship, and asked what are the differences between being a classroom teacher and being a librarian. Moving into my fourth year in the library, I had a lot to say. Here’s my…
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Canadian Encyclopedia (online reference source)
Book title: The Canadian Encyclopedia Author: Historica-Dominion Bibliographic entry Historica-Dominion (Ed.). (2012). The Canadian encyclopedia. Retrieved from The Canadian Encyclopedia database. Description Organized by key people and events in Canadian history, the encyclopedia has fact-based articles searchable by keyword. It also recommends articles for browsing and links to a live bilingual blog that highlights different topics within…
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Parameters for success in inquiry
I just finished attending the Edugains Literacy Camp this week. The focus of this week is developing discourse and curiosity in the classroom….read between the lines: we’re talking about inquiry! We tried this new discussion strategy tonight called World Cafe, that lead to some very interesting tangential diversions about implementing inquiry-based learning. We had some…
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Starting a path of inquiry
Intrinsically, I have emphasized information and literacy in my work for the brief time that I have been a secondary school teacher-librarian. I have witnessed staff frustrations when students can’t seem to go more deeply into topics and I too have been frustrated when students seem to get stuck. I hoped that in taking this…
threadbare beauty 