“BOARD VOTES FOR JOB CUT PLAN”
The TDSB will cut 36 Teacher Librarian jobs for the 2009/2010 school year. While they won’t completely get rid of the TL’s job, their workday will be cut from 0.6 to 0.5. Some trustees argued against the cuts saying, “in these hard economic times, when we know 60 per cent of children are growing up poor and will get poorer, we can’t pull teachers out of the most impoverished schools.” Trustee Sheila Cary-Meagher rejected all the suggested cuts and said, “forty years of research shows us teacher-librarians make a difference.” While I agree that cuts will have to be made (if we don’t want a provincial supervisor coming in and making cuts), I fully disagree with the boards decision to cut TL’s to 0.5. Our students deserve more!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Webquests in the School Library
I have used webquests in the past with elementary aged students. They are engaging and fun for students and encourage higher thinking skills. Here are some ideas for elementary school children.
I have been exploring Webquests that can be used with elementary aged students. The first awesome site I found was called “Technology Integration” and had an amazing quest for third grade students to look at “Gila Monsters”. I had a lot of fun exploring this quest. There was also one called “Who wants to be a rock star?” which challenged students to try-out for an imaginary tv show and learn, write, present and cooperate while planning their performance. What fun! The link to these webquests is:
http://web.laramie2w1.k12.wy.us/integration/WebQuest/webquest.htm
The second really fun site was called “Elementary Webquests” that had sections on “Tornadoes”, “Cinderella”, and “Career Choices”, etc. There were some really fun activities here as well, although a few of the ones didn’t work, 90% did and they entertained me for a long time! There were Olympic activities, such as “The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece”. This would be a good place for students to explore before the winter games here in Canada next year.
The link is :
http://www.owen.k12.ky.us/trt/elementarywebquests.htm
The last one that I explored was called “Webquest Collection”, which came from the Yukon and explored countries of the world, bears, chocolate, Medieval Times etc. Another awesome place for kids (and teachers!) to explore:
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquest_collection.html
I have been exploring Webquests that can be used with elementary aged students. The first awesome site I found was called “Technology Integration” and had an amazing quest for third grade students to look at “Gila Monsters”. I had a lot of fun exploring this quest. There was also one called “Who wants to be a rock star?” which challenged students to try-out for an imaginary tv show and learn, write, present and cooperate while planning their performance. What fun! The link to these webquests is:
http://web.laramie2w1.k12.wy.us/integration/WebQuest/webquest.htm
The second really fun site was called “Elementary Webquests” that had sections on “Tornadoes”, “Cinderella”, and “Career Choices”, etc. There were some really fun activities here as well, although a few of the ones didn’t work, 90% did and they entertained me for a long time! There were Olympic activities, such as “The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece”. This would be a good place for students to explore before the winter games here in Canada next year.
The link is :
http://www.owen.k12.ky.us/trt/elementarywebquests.htm
The last one that I explored was called “Webquest Collection”, which came from the Yukon and explored countries of the world, bears, chocolate, Medieval Times etc. Another awesome place for kids (and teachers!) to explore:
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquest_collection.html
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