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- Taught WeVideo to all 6th grade students, which helps 7th and 8th grade teachers who teach Video Production or assign videos for presentations
- Monthly book talks to 6th grade
- Bimonthly book talks to 7th grade
- Quarterly book talks to 8th grade
- Taught all 6th grade how to use Tinkercad. Many return in 7th and 8th grade to 3D print projects for their classes. I personally 3D print all projects on campus
- Introduced 6th grade to coding, which helped the computer elective teacher for 7th and 8th
- Taught search strategies to use when not using databases
- Taught 6th grade how to create Adobe Spark pages and videos, which they get assigned in their science and core classes
- Created and maintain a website of recommended books for all grades
- Created and maintain a website for 8th grade core teachers of books that their students write reviews. I upload all the reviews the students turn in, with a picture of the book and the number of stars they gave. There have been hundreds of reviews submitted.
Datebase training each year with teachers- Database training in core and science classes for students
- Taught all the Digital Citizenship classes for Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Certification
- Provided training on Plagerism, copyright , summarizing,
- Provided instruction on building Bibliographies, Works cited, Web site evaluation
- Team teach with teachers building research units and building instructional material collections to support the units and teaching strategies.
- Collaborate with core teachers to build strong reading strategies and provide print and digital resources to support students.
- Collaborate with special education teachers to provide support with teaching strategies and materials to meet the needs of their students.
- Build collections of print and digital resources for research themes for social studies, science, Fair Act, social justice, environmental issues, teen health.
- SIRS Researcher
- Gale Databases
- Critical Thinking summer session
- Photostory
- Animoto
- Audacity
Let’s Get Graphic- using graphic novels in the classroom
· YA Books The Build Empathy
· Teaching Research and Research Writing
· Database 101 and 102
· Preventing Plagiarism
· Prep Period PD (teachers pop in on their preps for individual help on whatever they need)
· Library Resources website for teachers and TLs to access materials we’ve created over the years
· Annotated Bibliography’s, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing
· How To Make Outside Reading Worth Your Students While
· Sharing Best Practices
· Libraries for Principals
· Databases and the Common Core
· Research Papers and Projects
· Creating a Supportive Classroom Narrative (engaging your classroom space)
· Visual Literacy
· The Toilet Paper has links to teacher resources
· Professional Collections- we maintain a collection of professional books for teachers.
· Library Services- presentation at St. Mary’s for Bay Area high school TLs about our elective
· California State Standards & the Role of the Teacher Librarian- also presented at St. Mary’s
· I’m also trained and “certified” by College Board to teach AP Seminar and AP Research – not sure if that fits in…
Feb 15th blurb: Discuss the joys and the agonies of offering students choice reading in this session with two energetic high school librarians. Want to grow your readers and engage students? Find how to manage, evaluate and offer RtI in choice reading. High School focus.
· Training on new state databases
· Using Gale Science in Context identify materials that support NGSS
· How to integrate ebooks in your curriculum
· Plagiarism
· Instructional Rounds- teachers learning from teachers
· Flip Grid- What is it all about?
· Media literacy and website evaluation
· Building Lit Circles
· Integrating social justice themes