
Teaching Life Skills in the School Library
Career, Finance, and Civic Engagement in a Changing World
Libraries Unlimited Inc (Publisher)
Published on 8. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-1-4408-6889-4 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on stories from successful programs and research, this book shows librarians how to provide students with the practical information they need for a bright future. Chapters cover career readiness, financial literacy, and civic responsibility at each grade level.
From preschool through high school, students are preparing for their future. As they move through grade levels, they choose courses, research potential careers, learn about managing money, and recognize the responsibilities of being active citizens. At each step of the way, librarians can collaborate with teachers to help students to learn how to live in a world they can only imagine.
School librarians are positioned to make a positive impact on students' lives when it matters most. Focusing on preparation for life after high school, this book cites research and provides anecdotes of successful programs as examples of how school librarians, in collaboration with counselors, community members, public libraries, and teachers, can develop collections and offer programming to show students the importance of finishing high school. Chapters also explain how to help students to find the college or university that fits with their educational interests and won't cause them to incur enormous debt. Included in every chapter are activities, resources, and lesson plans around topics at each grade level for librarians to co-teach with teachers, counselors, and other school staff.
From preschool through high school, students are preparing for their future. As they move through grade levels, they choose courses, research potential careers, learn about managing money, and recognize the responsibilities of being active citizens. At each step of the way, librarians can collaborate with teachers to help students to learn how to live in a world they can only imagine.
School librarians are positioned to make a positive impact on students' lives when it matters most. Focusing on preparation for life after high school, this book cites research and provides anecdotes of successful programs as examples of how school librarians, in collaboration with counselors, community members, public libraries, and teachers, can develop collections and offer programming to show students the importance of finishing high school. Chapters also explain how to help students to find the college or university that fits with their educational interests and won't cause them to incur enormous debt. Included in every chapter are activities, resources, and lesson plans around topics at each grade level for librarians to co-teach with teachers, counselors, and other school staff.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-6889-4 (9781440868894)
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Additional editions

Blanche Woolls | Connie Hamner Williams
Teaching Life Skills in the School Library
Career, Finance, and Civic Engagement in a Changing World
E-Book
03/2019
1st Edition
Libraries Unlimited Inc
€42.99
Available for download

Blanche Woolls | Connie Hamner Williams
Teaching Life Skills in the School Library
Career, Finance, and Civic Engagement in a Changing World
E-Book
03/2019
1st Edition
Libraries Unlimited Inc
€42.99
Available for download
Persons
Blanche Woolls is director and professor emerita of the iSchool at San Jose State University and professor emerita of the former School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
Connie Hamner Williams was formerly a National Board Certified Teacher Librarian at Petaluma High School.
Connie Hamner Williams was formerly a National Board Certified Teacher Librarian at Petaluma High School.