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What Works: Early Interventions in Student Research.
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Haycock, Ken – Emergency Librarian, 1998
Comments on the following research finding: teacher-librarians who understand the search process, work with classroom colleagues to integrate the process in instruction, and intervene early in student support, more effectively guarantee student success and academic achievement than those who don't. (PEN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assignments, Cooperative Planning, Course Integrated Library Instruction
Skills and Strategies for Helping Students Become More Effective Information Users.
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Eisenberg, Michael B.; Spitzer, Kathleen L. – Catholic Library World, 1991
Addresses the implications for education of the expansion of information technology and proposes a model for teaching information skills within the context of an overall process. A model called the "Big Six Skills" is presented, and its application to information problems related to school, life, and work are explained. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Literacy
Summary of EL Research Findings to Date. What Works. Research: The Implications for Professional Practice.
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Haycock, Ken, Comp. – 1989
Summaries of research findings on the following topics are compiled in this document: (1) students in schools with well-equipped resource centers and teacher-librarians perform better on achievement tests; (2) developing student competence in research and study skills is most effective when integrated with classroom instruction through cooperative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Cooperative Planning, Course Integrated Library Instruction
Expanding the Collaborative Planning Model to Meet the Needs of ESL Students.
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Hurren, Patti – Emergency Librarian, 1993
Examines the collaboration process between a teacher, teacher-librarian, and language specialist working to develop an integrated language and content novel study unit for a fifth-grade class with a high percentage of mainstreamed ESL (English-as-a-Second-Language) students. Definitions and principles of collaboration are described, and the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cooperative Planning, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Power Teaching; A Primary Role of the School Library Media Specialist. School Library Media Programs: Focus on Trends and Issues No. 14.
Vandergrift, Kay E. – 1994
This book illustrates the roles of the school library media specialist as instructional consultant and teacher as well as information specialist and frames these roles in a background of relevant educational concerns. Chapter 1 surveys current efforts to restructure the education system and stresses the importance of the school library media…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Educational Technology
Lessons from Library Power: Enriching Teaching and Learning. Final Report of the Evaluation of the National Library Power Initiative, an Initiative of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.
Zweizig, Douglas L.; Hopkins, Dianne McAfee – 1999
This book presents the results of an evaluation of Library Power, an initiative of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund that provided support for school library development in 19 communities. Following an introductory chapter, the chapters are organized around key questions of the evaluation. Chapters 2 through 4 address the implementation of…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
The United States National Library Power School Program: Research Evaluation and Implications for Professional Development and Library Education.
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Hopkins, Dianne McAfee; Zweizig, Douglas L. – 1999
The Library Power program is a school improvement initiative of the DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund that began in 1988, designed to promote the full integration of the school library media program into the school curriculum in public elementary and junior high/middle schools. With a total investment exceeding $45 million, Library Power is the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education