
Block Scheduling and Its Impact on the School Library Media Center
Marie Shaw(Author)
Libraries Unlimited Inc (Publisher)
Published on 28. February 1999
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-313-30494-1 (ISBN)
Description
Across the country educators are facing the challenge of restructuring the secondary school to meet the needs of students in the twenty-first century. Block scheduling provides sustained time and fosters an environment for active and experiential learning, a key to student success in life. The author, who has spearheaded the adoption of block scheduling in her school's library media center, has prepared a complete guide for library media specialists contemplating or moving to block scheduling. In preparing this guide she has incorporated the experiences of twelve secondary school libraries across the country that have also moved to block scheduling. Step by step, this guide walks the library media specialist through planning, networking, curriculum and instruction, professional development, technology, and assessment. Practical suggestions, forms, lesson plans, and case studies of other media centers that have successfully adopted block scheduling will help the library media specialist to make the transition to the block.
Block scheduling places a high demand on staff, materials, and information technologies. Shaw stresses that networking of people and resources is essential to successful adoption of block scheduling. She takes the reader through the planning and transitional phases of a high school adopting block scheduling and addresses concerns about instructional change, ongoing curriculum, and the role of the library media specialist as a teacher of information technology. She provides ideas on where to find professional development and how to network with other library media specialists with expertise in the block and offers practical suggestions on resource sharing, study hall, flexible scheduling, budget, collection development, substitute teachers, and assessment techniques.
Block scheduling places a high demand on staff, materials, and information technologies. Shaw stresses that networking of people and resources is essential to successful adoption of block scheduling. She takes the reader through the planning and transitional phases of a high school adopting block scheduling and addresses concerns about instructional change, ongoing curriculum, and the role of the library media specialist as a teacher of information technology. She provides ideas on where to find professional development and how to network with other library media specialists with expertise in the block and offers practical suggestions on resource sharing, study hall, flexible scheduling, budget, collection development, substitute teachers, and assessment techniques.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-30494-1 (9780313304941)
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Person
MARIE KEEN SHAW is curriculum instructional leader and a library media specialist at East Lyme High School in East Lyme, Connecticut./e She took a leadership role in her school's adoption of block scheduling and has presented a number of workshops on the topic to school library media specialists. She was a member of the Connecticut Legislative Task Force on Telecommunications for Schools in 1997, and co-authored a district technology plan, Target for Technology.
Content
Introduction Restructure and the Block Schedule: An Overview Planning for the Block The Library Media Specialist and Instructional Change Professional Development for the Block Block Scheduling and Curriculum Development Of Practical Consideration: Staffing, Collection Development and Budget Resource Sharing Technology in a Block-Scheduled High School The Internet, Multimedia, and Block Scheduling Distance Education Of Practical Consideration: Scheduling, Study Halls, Substitutes, and Assessment Case Studies Selected Lesson Plans for Classes Using Block Scheduling Index